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Issue #77 · Thursday, October 8, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 16.0 ▲ from 15.1 yesterday | | Stocks edged lower as Treasury yields continued rising, pressuring rate-sensitive sectors while oil surged higher. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,801.77 -0.22%
+1.96% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 27,538.69 -0.22%
+2.52% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,179.87 -0.66%
+0.54% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,793.20 -1.31%
-0.13% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | AMZN Amazon | +1.42% | | AAPL Apple | +0.91% | | GOOGL Alphabet | +0.81% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -2.51% | | META Meta | -2.38% | | ^RUT Russell 2000 | -1.31% |
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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 (7,680.46) and 200-day (7,241.31) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,551.81–7,818.93; currently in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) 66 — momentum firm. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is a share buyback? When a company uses cash to buy its own shares off the market, shrinking the share count. Each remaining share then represents a slightly larger slice of the business. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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