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Issue #53 · Thursday, September 3, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.3 ▲ from 15.2 yesterday | | Stocks edged higher as traders assessed geopolitical tensions, corporate earnings momentum, and potential currency intervention signals from Japan. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,666.60 +0.46%
-0.12% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,217.83 +0.45%
+0.34% this week | | Dow Jones | 53,061.95 +0.56%
-0.75% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,953.17 +1.13%
-1.75% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | NVDA Nvidia | +3.21% | | META Meta | +2.47% | | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +1.13% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -1.07% | | MSFT Microsoft | -0.84% | | AAPL Apple | -0.05% |
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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 (7,576.70) and 200-day (7,131.47) 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) 36 — momentum weak. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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● The Brief | | AI cloud economics shift as hardware buying beats renting Major tech companies are finding it more cost-effective to purchase AI infrastructure outright rather than rent cloud computing power, potentially reshaping how big tech deploys artificial intelligence and manages capital. (MarketWatch) |
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Markets 101 What does Nvidia actually make? Graphics and AI chips (GPUs). Originally for video games, its processors became the workhorses of artificial-intelligence computing, which drove it to a multi-trillion-dollar valuation. |
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