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One page per day the market did something worth remembering. en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-28 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-28 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT Warsh's first Jackson Hole keynote: the S&P 500 fell 0.25 percent to 7,711.76 — while gold fell 3.26, silver 4.37, utilities 1.09 against banks up 0.37, and the odds on a September rate hike went from 35 percent to 57. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-27 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-27 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT The verdict came back a yes and went to one part of the room: Nvidia +8.77 percent to 228.05, its biggest day of the year — and the S&P 500 up 0.72 percent to 7,730.99, still sixty-eight points under its August 13 record. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-26 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-26 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT At ten to four the tape stood eleven points over Tuesday's line; at four it settled 1.58 short — S&P 500 7,675.70, down 0.02 percent, the whole market a waiting room for a report that landed after the bell. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-25 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-25 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT The streak ended the way August does — with one toe: ten minutes under Monday's line at 10:30, back out by 10:40. S&P 500 7,677.28, up 0.32 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-24 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-24 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT All week the tape begged for lower yields, and on Monday morning they came. The index fell anyway: the chips went on sale in the same hour. S&P 500 7,652.86, down 0.28 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-21 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-21 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT Nothing was decided on Friday, which was the point. Four straight sessions on one side of the line, six days to the mountain. S&P 500 7,674.37, up 0.43 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-20 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-20 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT The relief lasted one session. The yields took back Wednesday's nine basis points, and the biggest store in the country said its customer is choosing between the tank and the cart. S&P 500 7,641.16, down 0.87 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-19 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-19 Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT Wednesday the issuer answered — not by paying the posted price, but by buying back its own paper. Yields fell off nineteen-year highs; the first gain in five sessions. S&P 500 7,707.98, up 0.21 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-18 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-18 Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT Monday the machines ignored the counteroffer. Tuesday they heard it: Micron gave back the thousand-dollar door one session after walking through it, and the chip gauge fell five percent. S&P 500 7,691.76, down 0.69 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-17 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-17 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT The long bond posted 5.31 percent — its best offer since June 2007 — and the tape spent the whole session reading the window: opened at its high, closed on its low. S&P 500 7,745.06, down 0.52 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-14 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-14 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT Thirteen points off the record. Shoppers spent less, sentiment dimmed, and the tape exhaled — but the week’s balance still printed higher for a third straight time. S&P 500 7,785.76, down 0.17 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-13 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-13 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT Producer prices sat still, the hike odds faded, and the index printed 7,800 for the first time in its history — led by the chips whose whole business is not forgetting. S&P 500 7,798.99, up 0.65 percent: a record. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-12 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-12 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT Three-point-four percent, exactly as expected. The market leapt at the open on the mercy of no surprises, gave most of it back by lunch, and kept the change. S&P 500 7,748.50, up 0.26 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-11 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-11 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT The first print was the day's high, and everything after was a slow walk downhill — traders squaring up ahead of the inflation report while Alphabet counted what the future costs. S&P 500 7,728.20, down 0.32 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-10 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-10 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT The record run stalled by four and a half points. Under the flat water: the strait stayed shut, Brent jumped five percent, and energy had its loudest day of the summer. S&P 500 7,753.11, down 0.06 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-07 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-07 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT Twenty-three thousand jobs went missing and the market sent flowers to itself — not euphoria, but relief at one remove: the certainty that nothing will be done. S&P 500 7,757.64, a record close, up 0.62 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-06 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-06 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT Nothing dramatic on the surface — but everything underneath pulled seaward: oil up, yields up, Wednesday's record given back. S&P 500 7,709.96, down 0.18 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-05 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-05 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT The index woke up above its old record, looked down, and spent six hours descending — while the Dow, holding the blue-chip railing, set a record of its own. S&P 500 7,723.55, down 0.17 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-04 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-08-04 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT Relief curdled into euphoria: the first close above 7,700 in history, the Dow over 54,000, oil down six percent on Hormuz hopes. S&P 500 7,736.52, up 1.79 percent. https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-07-31 https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-07-31 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:00:00 GMT July 2026 ended nine points and sixty-four cents below where it began. Microsoft gained 24.58 percent in the month, Sandisk lost 46.57, and the average of all of them moved 0.13 percent.