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The Tape

A market page for people who do not work in markets. Every line says what the number actually is, the trace behind it is a month of closes, and nothing here is a recommendation — it is a reading. The boards below are the page we print; the lookup takes you to any listed stock, fund or currency on the wire, with a full-scale trace back to its first day.

The indicesWhat the market as a whole did.

S&P 500^GSPC

Five hundred large American companies, weighted by size.

7,651

−6.48 · −0.08%

Dow Jones^DJI

Thirty old names, weighted by share price rather than size.

51,683

−890.65 · −1.69%

Nasdaq Composite^IXIC

Everything listed on the Nasdaq — heavily technology.

26,523

+189.50 · +0.72%

Russell 2000^RUT

Small American companies. The domestic economy, closer up.

2,860

−43.54 · −1.50%

Volatility (VIX)^VIX

What options pricing implies about the next thirty days.

14.81

−2.29 · −13.39%

The tableFood, fuel and metal — the prices you meet in person.

GoldGC=F

Front-month futures, dollars an ounce.

4,416

+64.00 · +1.47%

WTI crudeCL=F

American oil benchmark. Shows up at the pump on a delay.

95.47

−5.92 · −5.84%

Natural gasNG=F

Henry Hub futures. Heat and, increasingly, electricity.

2.90

+0.0030 · +0.10%

CornZC=F

Feed, fuel and sweetener. Cents a bushel.

527.25

+15.25 · +2.98%

WheatZW=F

Bread and everything downstream of it.

713.50

+6.50 · +0.92%

CopperHG=F

The building metal. Read it as a construction gauge.

6.72

+0.3855 · +6.09%

The stocksA handful of names most portfolios already hold.

AppleAAPL

Phones, and the fee every app pays to reach them.

336.13

+3.86 · +1.16%

MicrosoftMSFT

Office software, cloud rent, and a large stake in OpenAI.

493.78

−1.85 · −0.37%

NvidiaNVDA

The chips the whole AI build-out is queued for.

222.27

+3.98 · +1.82%

AmazonAMZN

Retail logistics up front, cloud earnings behind it.

253.71

−3.07 · −1.20%

AlphabetGOOGL

Search advertising, and everything financed by it.

349.54

+11.04 · +3.26%

JPMorgan ChaseJPM

The largest American bank — a read on credit.

349.67

−6.56 · −1.84%

Exxon MobilXOM

Oil majors move with crude, on a lag.

163.54

−2.45 · −1.48%

WalmartWMT

Where a great many households actually shop.

106.73

−0.4200 · −0.39%

The cost of moneyYields and the dollar. What borrowing costs.

10-year Treasury^TNX

The yield mortgages and business loans are priced off.

5.00%

+0.04 · +0.75%

13-week Treasury^IRX

Short money. Closest thing to what the Fed is doing now.

3.98%

+0.04 · +1.09%

Dollar indexDX-Y.NYB

The dollar against a basket of currencies.

100.22

+0.76 · +0.76%

CryptoTraded every hour of the week, priced in dollars.

BitcoinBTC-USD

Spot, in dollars, traded every hour of the week.

81,296

+5,683 · +7.52%

EthereumETH-USD

The second book, and the one most software is built on.

2,614

+214.90 · +8.96%

SolanaSOL-USD

A faster chain, and a proxy for retail appetite.

113.42

+16.53 · +17.06%

How this is read

Quotes and traces come from the public Yahoo Finance chart feed, fetched on our server and cached for a short spell so a reader refreshing is not a request to the exchange. Index and futures prices can lag the live market by a few minutes; crypto is continuous. The percentage on each row is against the previous close, not against the month.

25 instruments printed · every listed symbol searchable · no advice given