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Issue #59 · Monday, September 14, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 17.5 ▲ from 15.8 yesterday | | Stocks rose modestly as AI safety concerns and Fed meeting anticipation balanced semiconductor demand signals and earnings developments. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,656.98 +0.86%
-1.17% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,333.04 +0.96%
-0.94% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,573.29 +0.98%
-2.07% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,903.94 +0.45%
-2.17% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | SPCX SpaceX | +2.04% | | AMZN Amazon | +1.94% | | GOOGL Alphabet | +1.77% |
| Laggards | NVDA Nvidia | -0.03% | | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +0.45% | | TSLA Tesla | +0.52% |
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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 (7,607.34) and 200-day (7,162.55) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,489.72–7,798.99; currently in the middle third of that range. RSI(14) 48 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is diversification? Spreading money across many holdings so no single one can sink you. It's why broad index funds are popular — one purchase holds hundreds of companies across sectors. |
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