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Issue #73 · Friday, October 2, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.9 ▼ from 16.4 yesterday | | Stock indexes hold flat as Nike plunges to 13-year lows and Big Pharma reshapes its innovation strategy globally. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,666.45 +0.19%
-0.49% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,871.60 +0.04%
-0.25% this week | | Dow Jones | 50,926.56 +0.04%
-0.82% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,806.63 +0.35%
-1.02% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | NVDA Nvidia | +1.09% | | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +0.35% | | ^GSPC S&P 500 | +0.19% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -1.85% | | GOOGL Alphabet | -1.70% | | AAPL Apple | -0.81% |
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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 (7,651.35) and 200-day (7,221.29) 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) 51 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What's a ticker symbol? A short code identifying a stock — AAPL for Apple, MSFT for Microsoft. Indices use a caret in many systems (the S&P 500 is often shown as ^GSPC). |
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