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Thursday, October 22, 2026

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Number of the Day

  • 28 — the Fear & Greed Index — Fear

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On the Radar

10

Viral Right Now

15

Pre-Market Pulse

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  • S&P 500 fut 7,722.75 -0.99%
  • Nasdaq fut 29,497.25 -1.70%
  • Dow fut 52,763.00 -0.56%
  • VIX 18.14 +8.75%
  • 10-yr yield 5.15% +0.57%
  • Dollar (DXY) 101.82 +0.04%

Fear & Greed

28 · fear

Economic Calendar

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  • 07:00 · United States — MBA 30-Year Mortgage Rate → 7.41%
  • 07:00 · United States — MBA Mortgage Applications → -5.3%
  • 07:00 · United States — MBA Purchase Index → 129.2
  • 07:00 · United States — Mortgage Market Index → 188.6
  • 07:00 · United States — Mortgage Refinance Index → 503.1
  • 10:30 · United States — Crude Oil Inventories → -3.060M vs -0.100M exp

Earnings Today

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  • PG Procter & Gamble Company (The) — $370.3B, pre market, $1.89 exp
  • UNP Union Pacific Corporation — $170.9B, pre market, $3.47 exp
  • WDC Western Digital Corporation — $136.1B, after hours, $3.99 exp
  • LMT Lockheed Martin Corporation — $126.6B, pre market, $7.49 exp
  • VLO Valero Energy Corporation — $124.8B, pre market, $21.28 exp
  • NEM Newmont Corporation — $123.1B, after hours, $1.94 exp
  • SPOT Spotify Technology S.A. — $108.3B, pre market, $3.10 exp
  • BX Blackstone Inc. — $82.8B, pre market, $1.26 exp

Stocks Moving

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  • Gainers
  • POM $3.01 +352.8%
  • OCLTR $0.2800 +99.3%
  • SHFS $0.1542 +71.5%
  • CELG.RT $0.1200 +70.7%
  • BIOTW $0.0191 +66.1%
  • Losers
  • HUBCZ $0.0070 -51.4%
  • GPATW $0.0344 -47.2%
  • RBNE $0.2315 -41.8%
  • SWAGW $0.0031 -41.5%
  • RAC.WS $0.1800 -35.7%
  • Most active
  • SHFS 571,632,483 shares
  • SXTC 230,450,873 shares
  • SPCX 220,881,498 shares
  • RBNE 150,391,786 shares
  • OLOX 129,592,903 shares

Unusual Activity

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  • GOOGL calls heavy — put/call 0.32
  • INTC calls heavy — put/call 0.32
  • CRWV calls heavy — put/call 0.51
  • AVEX puts heavy — put/call 3.86

Crypto

3
  • BTC $81,714 -2.05%
  • XRP $1.33 -2.23%
  • ETH $2,398 -2.80%

Housing

4

The Long Read

On This Day

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  • 2019 — Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.
  • 2015 — Anton Lundin Pettersson attacks a school in Trollhättan, killing three people and injuring two others.
  • 2014 — Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
  • 2013 — The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 20…

Birthdays

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  • Brian Branch, American football player (25)
  • Jo Yu-ri, South Korean singer and actress (25)
  • Baby Keem, American rapper and record producer (26)
  • Geraldo Perdomo, Dominican baseball player (27)

Recipe of the Day

Dad Joke of the Day

  • Pie is $2.50 in Jamaica and $3.00 in The Bahamas. These are the pie-rates of the Caribbean.

🧠 Daily trivia

Before "Jurassic Park III" was finalized and the Spinosaurus was chosen, which dinosaur was going to be the star?

🎓AI term of the dayMCP (Model Context Protocol)An open standard for plugging AI apps into tools and data — a 'USB-C port' for AI.Learn →

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