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Issue #64 · Monday, September 21, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Calm · 14.9 ▲ from 14.8 yesterday | | Markets held steady with the S&P and Nasdaq posting modest gains as Treasury officials engaged in international economic talks. |
| | | | | ● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,650.50 +0.17%
-0.08% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,522.54 +0.39%
+0.72% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,682.64 -0.18%
-1.69% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,860.40 0.00%
-1.10% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
| ● The Movers Leaders | NVDA Nvidia | +1.34% | | AMZN Amazon | +1.00% | | GOOGL Alphabet | +0.64% |
| Laggards | META Meta | -2.43% | | SPCX SpaceX | -1.36% | | MSFT Microsoft | -0.80% |
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The day's best and worst of the tracked indices and mega-caps · day-over-day change. |
| ● The Read S&P 500 — description, not prediction Trading above both its 50-day (7,617.24) and 200-day (7,183.05) 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) 45 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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| Markets 101 What is the Russell 2000? An index of about 2,000 smaller US companies. Because small-caps are more sensitive to the domestic economy, it's watched as a read on broader business conditions. |
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