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Issue #71 · Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 16.3 ▲ from 16.0 yesterday | | Stocks dipped modestly as mortgage rates climbed for a sixth week, while Boeing gained on Navy contract news. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,670.84 -0.17%
-1.21% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,797.54 -0.09%
-1.64% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,349.92 -0.26%
-0.99% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,807.92 -0.35%
-2.84% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | META Meta | +3.24% | | SPCX SpaceX | +2.59% | | AMZN Amazon | +0.21% |
| Laggards | AAPL Apple | -2.66% | | TSLA Tesla | -1.29% | | NVDA Nvidia | -0.72% |
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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 (7,645.16) and 200-day (7,213.34) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,551.81–7,764.70; 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 an ETF? An exchange-traded fund — a basket of many stocks (or bonds) that trades like a single stock. An S&P 500 ETF lets you own all 500 names in one ticker. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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