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Nakagai Daily Brief

Tue 22 Sep 2026

Before the open, every trading day

Premarket

S&P 500SPY
+0.13%
at 774.51
By the close-0.14%
Nasdaq 100QQQ
-0.05%
at 741.07
By the close+0.86%
DowDIA
n/a
No premarket print
Russell 2000IWM
n/a
No premarket print

IEX premarket price against the prior close.

Meta and Intel led a strong close, and the S&P 500 edges higher premarket.

Tone

The S&P 500 closed up 1.56%, the Nasdaq 100 up 2.78%, the Dow up 0.77% and the Russell 2000 up 0.52%. Premarket, the S&P 500 is 0.13% higher and the Nasdaq 100 0.05% lower; Dow and Russell premarket prices are not in yet. The S&P 500 structure score is 89, bullish: the index is in a firm uptrend, sits near the top of its recent range, and the premarket gap is slightly positive, a supportive start.

Intel soared 14% and other AI chip stocks rallied. Stocks also jumped on Iran, China and bitcoin headlines, though the big conflicts remain. Meta surged on its Muse personal AI agent, which topped ChatGPT, Grok and Claude for post-launch downloads, fueling a broader megacap rally. It announced AI shopping partnerships with Shopify and Spotify; Amazon blocked Muse from shopping on users' behalf.

Today's economic and earnings calendar is unavailable in this feed.

Structure

Bullish89/100

Describes where SPY stands now. Not a forecast.

  • SPY above its 20-day average+25
  • 20-day average above the 50-day+25
  • In the upper third of its 20-day range+23.27
  • IEX premarket +0.1% vs prior close+15.7

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Today

Economic releases

Calendar unavailable

Earnings

Calendar unavailable

Key levels

LevelS&P 500SPYNasdaq 100QQQDowDIARussell 2000IWM
Prior close773.52741.41519.78285.54
Prior high774.89743.22520.49286.45
Prior low766.04727.84516.80284.92
5-day high774.89743.22523.51288.23
5-day low749.67700.04512.30281.03
IEX premarket774.51741.07n/an/a

Informational only. Not financial advice or a trade signal.

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