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Issue #51 · Tuesday, September 1, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.8 ▲ from 14.9 yesterday | | Worth noting Tesla (TSLA) moved +5.51% on the day. | | Markets edged lower as investors weighed Dell's earnings outlook, geopolitical tensions in Iran, and broader economic concerns amid mixed signals. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,686.14 -0.33%
+0.43% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,370.89 -0.12%
+1.50% this week | | Dow Jones | 53,185.90 -0.70%
-0.43% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,956.45 -0.54%
-1.29% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | TSLA Tesla | +5.51% | | SPCX SpaceX | +1.55% | | NVDA Nvidia | +1.48% |
| Laggards | AMZN Amazon | -2.50% | | GOOGL Alphabet | -2.09% | | MSFT Microsoft | -1.22% |
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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 (7,567.50) and 200-day (7,122.92) 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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Markets 101 What is a share buyback? When a company uses cash to buy its own shares off the market, shrinking the share count. Each remaining share then represents a slightly larger slice of the business. |
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