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Monday, October 19, 2026

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Number of the Day

  • 20 — the Fear & Greed Index — Extreme Fear

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On the Radar

10

Viral Right Now

15

Pre-Market Pulse

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  • S&P 500 fut 7,738.00 +0.44%
  • Nasdaq fut 29,720.50 +1.12%
  • Dow fut 52,105.00 -0.21%
  • VIX 18.89 -5.50%
  • 10-yr yield 5.10% +0.18%
  • Dollar (DXY) 101.80 -0.03%

Fear & Greed

20 · extreme fear

Economic Calendar

  • 06:00 · United States — IMF Meetings →  

Earnings Today

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  • FITB Fifth Third Bancorp — $45.7B, pre market, $1.09 exp
  • STLD Steel Dynamics, Inc. — $34.5B, after hours, $5.42 exp
  • WRB W.R. Berkley Corporation — $27.5B, after hours, $1.14 exp
  • CCK Crown Holdings, Inc. — $12.4B, after hours, $2.25 exp
  • SMMT Summit Therapeutics Inc. — $12.3B, not supplied, ($0.28) exp
  • PAC Grupo Aeroportuario Del Pacifico, S.A. de C.V. — $12.0B, not supplied, $2.72 exp
  • AGNC AGNC Investment Corp. — $10.5B, after hours, $0.39 exp
  • WTFC Wintrust Financial Corporation — $9.7B, after hours, $3.29 exp

Stocks Moving

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  • Gainers
  • BCAT.RT $0.0007 +133.3%
  • XLABW $0.1999 +100.9%
  • OGGWZ $0.0300 +98.7%
  • XLAB $2.35 +72.8%
  • LCFYW $10.95 +63.0%
  • Losers
  • MDXH $0.2066 -65.8%
  • BEATW $0.0031 -65.2%
  • GUTS $1.55 -62.7%
  • RBNE $0.7800 -59.8%
  • RPGL $6.89 -48.3%
  • Most active
  • HODO 568,744,733 shares
  • NWGL 365,209,560 shares
  • SXTC 263,900,591 shares
  • ZTG 172,655,646 shares
  • XLAB 171,585,937 shares

Unusual Activity

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  • INTC calls heavy — put/call 0.47
  • IREN calls heavy — put/call 0.75
  • AMZN calls heavy — put/call 0.7

Crypto

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  • BTC $82,314 +0.43%
  • XRP $1.30 +0.58%
  • ETH $2,420 +0.24%

The Long Read

On This Day

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  • 2025 — Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris.
  • 2019 — Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since…
  • 2013 — One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.
  • 2012 — A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.

Birthdays

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  • Antonia Nocca, Italian singer-songwriter (21)
  • Carlotta Truman, German singer-songwriter (27)
  • Noof Al Maadeed, Qatari women's rights activist (28)
  • Chance Perdomo, American-British actor (died 2024) (30)

Recipe of the Day

Dad Joke of the Day

  • What’s the longest word in the dictionary? Smiles. Because there’s a mile between the two S’s.

🧠 Daily trivia

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