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Issue #65 · Tuesday, September 22, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Calm · 14.8 ▼ from 14.9 yesterday | | Worth noting Meta (META) moved +11.34% on the day. | | S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained strongly on calm market conditions as oil prices fell on Middle East diplomatic hopes. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,764.70 +1.49%
+1.90% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 27,122.09 +2.26%
+3.57% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,048.83 +0.71%
-0.71% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,875.36 +0.52%
-0.58% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | META Meta | +11.34% | | TSLA Tesla | +3.03% | | NVDA Nvidia | +2.30% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -0.56% | | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +0.52% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | +0.71% |
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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 (7,621.02) and 200-day (7,187.73) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,551.81–7,798.99; currently in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) 56 — momentum firm. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is the VIX? A real-time index of how much volatility the market expects in the S&P 500 over the next 30 days. High VIX = fear and big expected swings; low VIX = calm. It describes mood — it doesn't predict direction. |
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