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Issue #63 · Friday, September 18, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.4 ▼ from 15.4 yesterday | | Stocks gained moderately as tech rebounded and major leadership transitions signaled confidence in corporate futures. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,637.76 +1.14%
+0.61% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,418.30 +1.69%
+1.29% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,778.04 +0.61%
-0.55% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,874.63 +0.55%
-0.56% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | SPCX SpaceX | +2.60% | | NVDA Nvidia | +2.54% | | TSLA Tesla | +2.27% |
| Laggards | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +0.55% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | +0.61% | | ^GSPC S&P 500 | +1.14% |
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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 (7,615.10) and 200-day (7,178.86) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,551.81–7,798.99; currently in the middle third of that range. RSI(14) 43 — momentum weak. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is the S&P 500? An index tracking 500 of the largest US companies, weighted by market value. It's the most-watched gauge of "the US stock market" because those 500 firms are most of its total value. |
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