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Issue #91 · Wednesday, October 28, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 17.5 ▼ from 17.5 yesterday | | Worth noting Tesla (TSLA) moved +4.04% on the day. | | Stocks edged higher as investors weighed AI spending trends and potential inflation pressures ahead of economic data. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,722.60 +0.60%
+0.13% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,477.81 +1.18%
+0.20% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,377.57 +0.03%
-0.23% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,818.87 +1.16%
+1.64% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | TSLA Tesla | +4.04% | | AMZN Amazon | +1.61% | | GOOGL Alphabet | +1.19% |
| Laggards | META Meta | -1.64% | | MSFT Microsoft | -0.24% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | +0.03% |
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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 (7,697.01) and 200-day (7,298.87) 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) 44 — momentum weak. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is the Russell 2000? An index of about 2,000 smaller US companies. Because small-caps are more sensitive to the domestic economy, it's watched as a read on broader business conditions. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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