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Issue #92 · Thursday, October 29, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 17.0 ▲ from 16.9 yesterday | | Small gains across major indexes mask mixed corporate results and incoming economic data that could influence Fed rate decisions. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,743.98 +0.28%
-0.17% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,549.85 +0.27%
-0.57% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,475.10 +0.19%
-0.72% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,830.51 +0.41%
+1.78% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | GOOGL Alphabet | +1.34% | | AMZN Amazon | +0.59% | | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +0.41% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -2.25% | | META Meta | -1.24% | | NVDA Nvidia | -1.17% |
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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 (7,698.05) and 200-day (7,302.71) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,623.68–7,818.93; currently in the middle third of that range. RSI(14) 48 — 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 the VIX? A real-time index of how much volatility the market expects in the S&P 500 over the next 30 days. High VIX = fear and big expected swings; low VIX = calm. It describes mood — it doesn't predict direction. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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