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Issue #82 · Thursday, October 15, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 17.6 ▲ from 16.9 yesterday | | Stocks pulled back as Treasury yields above 5% raised borrowing-cost concerns, while credit stress signals emerged in AI-focused debt markets. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,718.94 -1.11%
-1.06% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,692.87 -1.88%
-3.07% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,621.48 -0.09%
+0.86% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,729.53 -1.93%
-2.28% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | AAPL Apple | +0.50% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | -0.09% | | ^GSPC S&P 500 | -1.11% |
| Laggards | META Meta | -3.27% | | NVDA Nvidia | -3.16% | | SPCX SpaceX | -2.80% |
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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 (7,707.02) and 200-day (7,263.43) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,551.81–7,818.93; currently in the middle third of that range. RSI(14) 52 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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● The Brief | | CoreWeave AI bonds tumble to distressed levels The cloud-infrastructure company's recent bond issuance fell to 81 cents on the dollar with yields exceeding 15%, signaling market caution about AI-sector credit quality. (MarketWatch) |
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Markets 101 Why do interest rates move markets? A stock is worth its future profits, and higher rates make future dollars worth less today — and make safe bonds a real alternative. So rate expectations ripple through share prices. |
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