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Issue #80 · Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.4 ▲ from 15.2 yesterday | | Banks report mixed earnings while healthcare stocks gain; major indexes hold flat as traders await late-month volatility. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,807.24 -0.06%
+0.43% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 27,245.90 -0.44%
-0.84% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,850.55 +0.38%
+1.14% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,794.48 -0.45%
-1.85% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | META Meta | +3.38% | | AAPL Apple | +1.29% | | MSFT Microsoft | +1.14% |
| Laggards | NVDA Nvidia | -1.29% | | TSLA Tesla | -1.22% | | AMZN Amazon | -1.11% |
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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 (7,703.27) and 200-day (7,255.12) 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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Partner The charts we read every morning TradingView is the charting platform a lot of "The Read" leans on — live charts, screeners and alerts for stocks, indexes and the VIX. New to it? This link puts toward a paid plan. Try TradingView → |
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Markets 101 What is a 52-week high or low? The highest and lowest price a stock has traded at over the past year. It frames where today's price sits in its recent range — a context number, not a prediction. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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