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Issue #68 · Friday, September 25, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.1 ▼ from 15.7 yesterday | | Worth noting Meta (META) moved +4.50% on the day. | | Major indexes hold steady as Treasury yields climb, sharpening focus on Fed policy and inflation management. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,704.13 -0.02%
+2.02% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,939.37 +0.01%
+3.70% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,349.98 -0.31%
-0.22% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,835.57 -0.11%
-0.81% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | META Meta | +4.50% | | GOOGL Alphabet | +1.34% | | AMZN Amazon | +0.04% |
| Laggards | TSLA Tesla | -0.57% | | MSFT Microsoft | -0.53% | | NVDA Nvidia | -0.41% |
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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 (7,628.05) and 200-day (7,196.25) 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) 53 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is a P/E ratio? Price divided by earnings per share — how many dollars you pay for each dollar of annual profit. A high P/E means investors expect growth; it says nothing certain about the future. |
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