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Issue #93 · Friday, October 30, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 18.4 ▲ from 17.2 yesterday | | Worth noting Alphabet (GOOGL) moved -12.64% on the day. | | Tech stocks fell sharply while energy and chip-sector turmoil dominated, as macro concerns weighed on broader market momentum. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,720.39 -0.30%
+0.74% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,184.72 -1.38%
+0.68% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,342.56 -0.25%
-0.99% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,859.22 +1.01%
+2.70% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | META Meta | +1.96% | | AAPL Apple | +1.48% | | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +1.01% |
| Laggards | GOOGL Alphabet | -12.64% | | AMZN Amazon | -4.25% | | ^IXIC Nasdaq Composite | -1.38% |
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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 (7,698.30) and 200-day (7,306.49) 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) 42 — momentum weak. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is market capitalization? A company's total stock-market value: share price times the number of shares. A "mega-cap" like Microsoft is worth trillions; a "small-cap" might be worth under a couple of billion. |
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