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Issue #54 · Friday, September 4, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Calm · 14.1 ▼ from 14.3 yesterday | | Worth noting SpaceX (SPCX) moved +6.42% on the day. | | Stock markets climbed modestly as calm prevailed, with megacap tech and AI developments drawing investor attention today. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,747.71 +1.06%
+0.22% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,584.06 +1.40%
+0.16% this week | | Dow Jones | 53,686.11 +1.18%
+0.22% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,968.27 +0.51%
-1.53% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | SPCX SpaceX | +6.42% | | TSLA Tesla | +5.42% | | META Meta | +3.01% |
| Laggards | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +0.51% | | AAPL Apple | +1.00% | | ^GSPC S&P 500 | +1.06% |
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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 (7,584.49) and 200-day (7,136.53) 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) 46 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is a moving average? The average closing price over a set number of days — the 50-day and 200-day are the common ones. Traders use price versus these lines as a rough trend yardstick, nothing more. |
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