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WEEKLY RECAP

Weekly Recap

Every weekend, the week told as a story: the markets that moved furthest from their own normal range, what moved them, and what can move markets next. · RSS feed

16 Oct2026

RKLB −25.5%, DELL −22.9% and 3 more · Weekly Recap 16 Oct 2026

RKLB−25.5%DELL−22.9%005930−17.7%TER−19.3%KO+6.6%

The week came in two halves. Monday and Tuesday were quiet, and Tuesday was one of the calmest days of the year on the Spotlight Index. Then US inflation came in hotter than expected on Wednesday, at 3.7% a year, and…

Index 51
2 Oct2026

SNPS +15.1%, IN50 −3.1% and 3 more · Weekly Recap 2 Oct 2026

SNPS+15.1%IN50−3.1%AZN−5.8%AMAT+11.3%QCOM−8.5%

It was one of the calmest weeks of the year. The Spotlight Index averaged 44, where 50 is a normal week, and only four weeks in the past year were calmer. Stocks were the quietest of all. Indices and forex had a fairly…

Index 44
25 Sep2026

CDNS +15.3%, GD −4.6% and 3 more · Weekly Recap 25 Sep 2026

CDNS+15.3%GD−4.6%INTC+13.3%APH+8.4%AMGN+7.5%

Last week was one of the calmest of the year across the 437 markets we track. Our Spotlight Index, which scores each market's move against its own past, averaged 47 for the week, where 50 is normal. Only 7 of the past…

Index 47
18 Sep2026

TMUS −7.8%, CEG −10.5% and 3 more · Weekly Recap 18 Sep 2026

TMUS−7.8%CEG−10.5%GBPAUD+2.8%GS−8.5%GLW−9.8%

A quiet week for the big indexes. The S&P 500 finished almost exactly where it started, and not one market on our board read Very High or Max. The moves that stood out were mostly each company's own story.

Index 48
4 Sep2026

ADSK −16.4%, UNP −5.8% and 3 more · Weekly Recap 4 Sep 2026

ADSK−16.4%UNP−5.8%DE+10.0%EURJPY−2.4%CDNS−14.0%

A quieter week than most. No market on the board had a week that read Very High or Max against its own history, and only Autodesk reached High. The five here are the biggest moves the week produced, each sized against…

Index 48
28 Aug2026

TJX −4.5%, MSTU +29.5% and 3 more · Weekly recap 28 Aug 2026

TJX−4.5%MSTU+29.5%CRM+20.5%ADBE+5.0%Sugar+3.3%

Two stories carried this week. Salesforce beat its earnings forecast by a wide margin and announced a partnership with Anthropic, and software followed it higher. Bitcoin touched a three-month high near $80,000, which…

Index 44