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Issue #79 · Monday, October 12, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.5 ▲ from 14.8 yesterday | | Stocks rose modestly as markets await bank earnings and inflation data to clarify the economic picture amid higher yields. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,811.54 +0.59%
+1.15% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 27,366.17 +0.64%
+0.64% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,654.95 +0.83%
+0.93% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,806.98 +0.46%
-0.91% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | AMZN Amazon | +3.29% | | MSFT Microsoft | +2.38% | | TSLA Tesla | +2.05% |
| Laggards | AAPL Apple | -1.11% | | NVDA Nvidia | -0.52% | | META Meta | -0.31% |
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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 (7,696.92) and 200-day (7,250.63) 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) 55 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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● The Brief | | Bank earnings season begins, testing economy health Major banks report earnings Tuesday in a higher-yield environment, offering the first real-time signal of how rising interest rates are affecting lending, borrowing, and overall economic activity. (MarketWatch) |
| | Brent crude tops $105 amid supply concerns Oil prices rose above $105 per barrel as doubts persist about whether geopolitical developments will actually boost crude supply, affecting energy stocks and consumer fuel costs. (CNBC) |
| | India inflation accelerates to 5.54% in September India's retail inflation jumped above expectations for an eleventh consecutive month, increasing pressure on its central bank to raise interest rates and potentially signaling broader global price pressures. (CNBC) |
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Markets 101 What is RSI? The Relative Strength Index, a 0–100 momentum gauge. Below 30 is traditionally called "oversold" and above 70 "overbought" — descriptions of recent momentum, not signals about what comes next. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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