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Issue #47 · Wednesday, August 26, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.6 ▲ from 15.4 yesterday | | Stocks edged higher as bond-market dynamics and sector-specific headwinds compete for attention among investors. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,677.28 +0.32%
-0.19% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,151.30 +0.66%
-0.53% this week | | Dow Jones | 53,577.40 +0.30%
+0.44% this week | | Russell 2000 | 3,010.02 +0.50%
-0.26% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | NVDA Nvidia | +2.19% | | SPCX SpaceX | +2.19% | | META Meta | +1.97% |
| Laggards | AMZN Amazon | -0.39% | | GOOGL Alphabet | -0.32% | | AAPL Apple | -0.14% |
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The day's best and worst of the tracked indices and mega-caps · day-over-day change. |
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● The Read S&P 500 — description, not prediction Trading above both its 50-day (7,551.14) and 200-day (7,104.54) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,316.15–7,798.99; currently in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) 45 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Partner The charts we read every morning TradingView is the charting platform a lot of "The Read" leans on — live charts, screeners and alerts for stocks, indexes and the VIX. New to it? This link puts toward a paid plan. Try TradingView → |
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Markets 101 What's a ticker symbol? A short code identifying a stock — AAPL for Apple, MSFT for Microsoft. Indices use a caret in many systems (the S&P 500 is often shown as ^GSPC). |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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