Archive · Friday, August 21, 2026

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⟢ ⟢ ⟢ BEAR TRAP

Pre-market

S&P500 . . . +0.34%

NASDAQ . . . +0.49%

DOW . . . . . +0.45%

Momentum ¹

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Trending This Morning

SPCX	+0.53%	(Space Exploration Technologies)
ABEV	-0.35%	(Ambev S.A.)
MRNA	+2.83%	(Moderna, Inc.)
WBS	-0.51%	(Webster Financial Corporation)
NU	-0.19%	(Nu Holdings Ltd.)

Top Stories

→ Stocks and Bonds Steady at the End of a Tumultuous Week
→ How the A.I. Borrowing Binge Helps Drive Up Government Bond Yields
→ China Sentences Evergrande Founder to Life in Prison
→ Stripe Buys A.I. Start-Up OpenRouter for $7.5 Billion
→ Nvidia to Back Ohio Data Center With as Much as $105 Billion

Definitions

1 Momentum shows whether an index finished up or down over the last 10 days -- the leftmost arrow is 10 days ago, and rightmost is yesterday.

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