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Issue #83 · Friday, October 16, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 16.1 ▼ from 16.5 yesterday | | Stocks edged higher with modest gains across indices while central bank policy signals and corporate restructuring moves shaped underlying market sentiment. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,744.06 +0.33%
-0.27% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,713.03 +0.08%
-1.77% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,177.69 +1.08%
+1.85% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,767.27 +1.38%
-0.96% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +1.38% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | +1.08% | | MSFT Microsoft | +1.08% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -2.33% | | NVDA Nvidia | -1.84% | | TSLA Tesla | -1.29% |
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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 (7,707.43) and 200-day (7,267.62) 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) 50 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is inflation, for a stock investor? Rising prices across the economy. It erodes the value of future cash and often pushes the Fed to raise rates, which is why inflation reports can move the whole market. |
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