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Issue #49 · Friday, August 28, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Calm · 14.5 ▼ from 14.5 yesterday | | Worth noting Nvidia (NVDA) moved +8.74% on the day. | | Stocks rose modestly with calm volatility as Fed Chair Warsh prepares major Jackson Hole speech on policy framework today. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,730.99 +0.72%
+1.18% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,541.35 +1.57%
+1.82% this week | | Dow Jones | 53,569.44 +0.20%
+1.54% this week | | Russell 2000 | 3,014.34 +0.28%
+0.73% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | NVDA Nvidia | +8.74% | | TSLA Tesla | +2.60% | | MSFT Microsoft | +1.75% |
| Laggards | AMZN Amazon | -1.54% | | META Meta | -0.87% | | GOOGL Alphabet | -0.39% |
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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 (7,557.96) and 200-day (7,114.32) 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) 47 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is the bid-ask spread? The gap between the highest price buyers offer (bid) and the lowest sellers accept (ask). Heavily traded stocks have tiny spreads; thin ones have wide, costlier spreads. |
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