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Issue #89 · Monday, October 26, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 19.6 ▲ from 19.5 yesterday | | Major tech companies are making strategic moves while markets digest mixed signals about AI spending efficiency and growth prospects. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,623.68 -0.52%
-0.47% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 25,955.34 -0.21%
-0.71% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,215.16 -1.23%
+0.41% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,775.90 -0.29%
+2.00% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | SPCX SpaceX | +1.89% | | MSFT Microsoft | +0.66% | | AAPL Apple | -0.14% |
| Laggards | GOOGL Alphabet | -1.24% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | -1.23% | | META Meta | -0.96% |
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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 Between its 50-day (7,699.64) and 200-day (7,291.31) averages — a trend in transition. 30-day range 7,551.81–7,818.93; currently in the lower third of that range. RSI(14) 37 — momentum weak. 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 the Nasdaq Composite? An index of almost every stock listed on the Nasdaq exchange — several thousand of them, heavily weighted toward technology. It's why people say "the Nasdaq" to mean tech. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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