Educational markets brief · explained until it clicks
Sun, Aug 02, 2026 · ~14 min read · Data as of Fri Jul 31, 2026 close · Weekend edition
The 10-second version
Stocks closed out a wild July on a high note Friday, but it was a narrow win. Amazon soared about 15% after its AWS cloud business posted its fastest growth in years, helping lift the S&P 500 (+0.7%) to 7,489.72, the Nasdaq (+1.0%) and the Dow (+0.5%). Beneath the surface, though, the average stock struggled: the small-cap Russell 2000 slipped about 0.5%, Apple fell roughly 7% on a cautious forecast, and the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to a new high for the year near 4.75%. For the month, the Dow eked out a fourth straight monthly gain while the Nasdaq fell 3.2%.
“Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack.”
John C. Bogle
John C. Bogle founded Vanguard and created the first index mutual fund, spending his career making the case for owning a broad, low-cost basket of companies rather than trying to pick the winners - a fitting note after a week when a few giants, not the average stock, did the lifting. Read more →
Good morning, and welcome to Sunday. With markets closed for a second day, it's a calm moment to step back from Friday's split finish and sit with what it teaches. A green July close hid a lopsided day underneath: Amazon's roughly 15% surge on a blockbuster cloud quarter carried the cap-weighted indexes higher, while the average stock lagged, small caps slipped, and Apple fell about 7% on a cautious outlook.
Today we follow one quiet thread out of that gap. When a single company can lift a whole index, the reassuring word “diversified” is worth a second look - both in what your funds actually hold and in how much any one name is really driving your results. Then we'll close out a week spent on dollar-cost averaging with a Sunday reflection on what a steady, automatic habit is really buying you. The numbers below are still Friday's closes; they hold until Monday's open.
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02 The Quick Read
The 10-second version
A narrow finish to July. The S&P 500 rose 0.7% to 7,489.72, the Nasdaq gained 1.0% to 25,373.85, and the Dow added about 277 points (0.5%) to 52,485.03 - but the small-cap Russell 2000 fell about 0.5%, a sign the rally leaned on a few giants.
Amazon's cloud blowout. Amazon soared about 15% after its AWS division posted $42.2 billion in quarterly revenue, up 36.7% from a year earlier - its fastest growth since late 2021. Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft together added nearly $1.5 trillion in market value on the week.
Apple: record sales, cautious outlook. Apple fell about 7% despite record quarterly revenue near $109 billion, after guiding to slower growth and warning that a memory-chip shortage - driven by AI data-center demand - is raising its costs. Strong results, wary forecast.
Yields up, dollar down. The 10-year Treasury yield climbed to about 4.75%, a new high for the year, on sticky-inflation worries, while the U.S. dollar had its worst week in three months. For July: the Dow rose 0.3% (a fourth straight monthly gain), the S&P slipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq fell 3.2%.
03 Number of the Day
+15%
how much Amazon's stock jumped on Friday - about 15%, its biggest one-day gain in years - after its cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), reported $42.2 billion in quarterly revenue, up 36.7% from a year earlier and its fastest growth since late 2021. The surge helped Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft add nearly $1.5 trillion in combined market value on the week.
Source: Amazon fiscal second-quarter 2026 results; CNBC, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance, July 31, 2026.
Cloud computing: renting computing power, storage, and software over the internet instead of owning the hardware. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest such business, and its rapid growth is a big reason a single earnings report can move the whole market.
Why it matters: on the same day, two of the world's largest companies moved hard in opposite directions - Amazon up on booming cloud demand, Apple down on a cautious forecast. Because both are giants in a cap-weighted index, their moves ripple straight into most broad funds, even though the reasons behind them differ.Bars show each stock's one-day percentage move at Friday's close; drawn to scale.
04 The Dashboard
Where things stand
Read the picture: a narrow, split finish. The big indexes rose - the Nasdaq led at +1.0% - but the small-cap Russell 2000 fell about 0.5%, a telltale sign that a handful of giants did the lifting while many smaller companies lagged. When the index and the average stock disagree, “breadth” is the word for the gap.Bars reflect the one-day percentage moves at Friday's close.
These figures reflect Friday, July 31's close - the final session of July. Bond yields and commodities trade nearly around the clock, so those can drift over the weekend before Monday's open. Everything here is point-in-time and for education only - always confirm current numbers before making any decision.
It's Sunday, the second day of the weekend, so these are still Friday's closing figures - they won't change until U.S. markets reopen Monday morning. Bond yields, oil, and the dollar can drift on Sunday-evening futures; we'll flag any notable moves in Monday's issue.
A closer look at each benchmark — what each one actually tracks (optional · tap to expand)
Stocks
Stocks are ownership stakes in companies, so this group shows how investors are valuing American business. We track four on purpose because they answer different questions: the S&P 500 is the broad large-company gauge (“the market”), the Nasdaq leans tech-heavy so it swings harder, the Dow is 30 old-guard blue chips priced a quirky way, and the Russell 2000 tracks small, mostly-domestic firms. Reading them together tells you whether a move was broad or concentrated in one corner.
S&P 500 — Tracks 500 of the largest U.S. companies, weighted by market value, so giants like Apple and Microsoft move it far more than its smaller members. It captures roughly 80% of the entire U.S. stock market's value, which is why it's the standard shorthand for “the market.” Maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices and reviewed quarterly.
Nasdaq Composite — Includes essentially every company listed on the Nasdaq exchange (3,000-plus), also weighted by market value. That list skews heavily toward technology and high-growth names, so the index rises and falls more sharply than the S&P — which is why it swings hardest in both directions, leading Thursday's rebound just as it had led the drop before it.
Dow Jones Industrial Average — Just 30 large, well-known “blue-chip” companies, and — unusually — it's price-weighted: a stock with a higher share price sways it more than a bigger company with a cheaper share price. That quirky method dates to 1896 and is why the Dow often tells a slightly different story than the others.
Russell 2000 — Tracks about 2,000 small U.S. companies (the smaller slice of the broad Russell 3000). Because these firms are smaller and mostly domestic, it's a popular gauge of the home-grown economy and is especially sensitive to interest rates.
Bonds & Rates
Bonds are loans, so this group shows the price of money — what it costs to borrow, which ripples into your mortgage, car loan, and savings rate. We watch the 10-year and 2-year Treasury yields because they anchor almost every other rate, and the gap between them because an inverted (negative) spread has been one of the market’s more reliable recession warnings.
10-year Treasury yield — The interest rate on a 10-year loan to the U.S. government. Because that loan is considered one of the safest in the world, it acts as a baseline “risk-free rate” that mortgages, corporate loans, and even stock valuations are all measured against.
2-year Treasury yield — The rate on a 2-year government loan. Being short-term, it closely tracks what investors expect the Federal Reserve to do with interest rates over the next couple of years.
Yield-curve gap (10yr − 2yr) — Simply the long rate minus the short rate. Normally positive (longer loans pay more). When it flips negative — an “inverted” curve — it has historically been one of the market's more reliable recession warning signs, which is why analysts watch it so closely.
Yield, explained: the annual return you earn for lending money, as a percentage. If a bond costs $1,000 and pays $47 a year, its yield is about 4.7%.
IllustrativeThe trend, not the day: yields climbed through the spring and pushed to a new high for the year by late July. A single day is noise; the direction over months is what shapes borrowing costs across the economy.Shape modeled on the Federal Reserve's 10-year series (FRED: DGS10); the live edition embeds the actual daily values.
🎓 Learn — Why bond prices and yields move opposite
Imagine you own a bond paying a fixed $47 a year. If newly issued bonds start paying $50, yours looks less attractive — so its price must fall for a buyer to accept it, and as the price falls, its effective yield rises to match the new going rate. Flip it around and the same logic holds. This seesaw is one of the most useful ideas in all of finance: when you hear “yields rose,” it means bond prices fell.
Commodities · Currency · Volatility
This group tracks the raw inputs, the dollar, and the market’s mood — forces that move stocks and bonds from the outside. Oil (WTI and Brent) feeds into nearly every price you pay; gold is the classic safe haven; bitcoin is a speculative risk gauge; the dollar index shows the currency’s strength; and the VIX measures how much fear is priced into the market right now.
WTI crude oil — “West Texas Intermediate,” a light, low-sulfur (“sweet”) crude priced for delivery at Cushing, Oklahoma. It's the main benchmark for American oil and the price behind U.S. gasoline.
Brent crude oil — Oil from the North Sea that serves as the international benchmark, setting the price for roughly two-thirds of the world's traded crude. When global news quotes “the price of oil,” it's usually Brent.
Gold — Priced per troy ounce, it's the classic “safe haven”: investors often move toward it when nervous about inflation, currencies, or markets, and away from it when confidence returns.
Bitcoin — A decentralized digital currency with a supply capped at 21 million coins and no central issuer. It trades 24/7 and is far more volatile than stocks, so it's usually treated as a high-risk, speculative asset.
U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) — Measures the dollar against a basket of six major currencies (the euro is more than half the basket). A rising DXY means a stronger dollar — which makes imports cheaper for Americans but pressures U.S. exporters and commodity prices.
VIX — The “fear gauge.” Calculated from the prices investors pay for S&P 500 options, it estimates how much the market expects stocks to swing over the next 30 days. Readings near 20 are typical; higher means more anxiety.
The gistWall Street closed July higher, yet the gain was narrow - a few giant winners masked a day when more stocks fell than rose.
What happened. Stocks finished a volatile July on a positive note Friday: the S&P 500 rose 0.7% to 7,489.72, the Nasdaq Composite added 1.0% to 25,373.85, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained about 277 points (0.5%) to 52,485.03. But the strength was concentrated. The small-cap Russell 2000 actually fell about 0.5%, and market-breadth measures showed more stocks declining than advancing even as the headline indexes climbed. The heavy lifting came from a single name - Amazon - whose roughly 15% surge, thanks to its enormous size, was enough to tilt the whole cap-weighted market higher.
Why it matters. This is a textbook example of why “the market went up” and “most stocks went up” are not the same sentence. Broad indexes like the S&P 500 are weighted by company size, so a giant's move can outvote hundreds of smaller declines. When leadership narrows to a few names, the index can look calm and healthy on the surface while the typical stock treads water - a pattern worth recognizing, because it changes what a green day actually tells you.
Market breadth: a measure of how many stocks are taking part in a move - for example, how many rose versus fell. Broad participation is considered healthier; a rally carried by only a handful of large stocks is called “narrow.”
🎓 Why this matters - Index up, average stock down
Because the S&P 500 weights companies by market value, the biggest few carry outsized influence. If one trillion-dollar company jumps 15% while dozens of smaller ones dip, the index can still finish green. That's not a flaw - it's how cap-weighting works - but it means a rising index doesn't guarantee your particular holdings rose. Checking breadth is how professionals judge whether a move is broad or top-heavy.
🧭 Everyday impact
If you own a broad index fund, a day like Friday can lift your balance largely because of one or two giants you may not realize you own so much of. It's a nudge to look at your fund's top holdings, so you know what's really driving your results.
General education to build intuition - not a recommendation about what to buy, sell, or hold.
The gistAmazon soared on booming AI-driven cloud demand while Apple slid on a cautious outlook - the AI build-out now cuts in two directions.
What happened.A recurring thread for returning readers. Amazon jumped about 15% Friday after its cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), reported $42.2 billion in quarterly revenue - up 36.7% from a year earlier and its fastest growth since late 2021 - as businesses rushed to rent AI computing power. Apple went the other way, falling about 7% despite record quarterly revenue near $109 billion, after it guided to slower growth and warned that a shortage of memory chips - the same components AI data centers are devouring - is raising its costs. Microsoft and Alphabet also rose on the week, and together with Amazon the three added close to $1.5 trillion in market value.
Why it matters. For two years the “AI trade” mostly moved as one block. Friday showed how it has split into winners and payers. Companies that sell AI infrastructure - Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure - are booking booming revenue, while companies that mainly buy chips and components, like Apple, are feeling the cost side of the same boom. The story is maturing from “who's investing?” into “who's profiting, and who's paying?” - and the answer increasingly depends on which side of the supply chain a company sits.
Guidance: a company's own forecast for its coming sales or profit, issued alongside its results. Because markets look forward, weak guidance can sink a stock even after a record quarter - which is why Apple could post its best-ever revenue and still fall.
🎓 Why this matters - One boom, two sides
A supply shortage helps sellers and hurts buyers. The AI build-out has sent demand for memory chips soaring, which is great for the cloud giants renting out AI power and hard for device makers competing for the same scarce parts. It's a useful reminder that a single trend rarely lifts every company tied to it equally - the details of who sells what, and to whom, decide the winners.
🧭 Everyday impact
Most people own all of these giants through index funds. When Amazon jumps and Apple slides on the same day, a broad fund nets the two against each other - a quiet illustration of why diversification smooths the ride even within a single industry.
General education, not a recommendation about any individual stock.
Yields hit a new high for the year as the dollar slips
The gistThe 10-year Treasury yield climbed to about 4.75% on lingering inflation worries, while the dollar had its worst week in three months.
What happened. Even as stocks rose, the bond market flashed caution. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note climbed to about 4.75% on Friday, a new high for 2026, while the 2-year yield held near 4.29%. Behind the move: recent data showed inflation still running above the Federal Reserve's 2% target, keeping pressure on longer-term rates. At the same time, the U.S. dollar fell, capping its worst week in about three months, as investors questioned how soon the Fed can cut rates. The rising-rate backdrop helps explain why smaller, more rate-sensitive companies in the Russell 2000 lagged the giants.
Why it matters. Bond yields are the price of money, and when they rise it ripples outward - into mortgages, car loans, and the value investors place on future profits. Higher long-term rates weigh most on smaller companies, which tend to carry more floating-rate debt and depend more on borrowing to grow. That's part of why Friday's rally was so narrow: the same higher-yield backdrop that big, cash-rich tech giants can shrug off is a real headwind for the smaller half of the market.
Treasury yield: the annual return investors earn for lending to the U.S. government. The 10-year yield is a benchmark that influences mortgage rates and how investors value stocks; when it rises, borrowing gets costlier across the economy.
🎓 Why this matters - Why rising rates hit small caps hardest
Smaller companies usually borrow more, borrow shorter, and keep thinner cushions than mega-caps. So when yields climb, their interest costs rise faster and the value of their far-off profits gets discounted more heavily. That's why a jump in the 10-year yield can lift the headline index (led by rate-resilient giants) while quietly pressuring the small-cap Russell 2000 - two parts of “the market” responding to the same number in opposite ways.
🧭 Everyday impact
A 10-year yield near 4.75% keeps mortgage and auto-loan rates elevated. These are numbers to watch over weeks, not days - the trend matters far more than any single session.
General education, not personalized advice - your own timing depends on your circumstances.
Same day, two stories. The headline index and the average stock disagreed on Friday. Because a cap-weighted index measures dollars of value, a few giant winners can outweigh many smaller losers - which is why “the market rose” and “most stocks rose” were not the same sentence.A side-by-side of the day's headline versus what happened beneath it.
07 Beyond the Numbers
Themes and threads we're watching…and how they connect to everyday finances
📅 July's split personality
The connection: The month ended with the Dow logging a fourth straight monthly gain (+0.3%) even as the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 3.2%. Different corners of the market can head opposite ways over the same stretch, part of why a broad mix rarely rises or falls all at once.
🧩 Diversification quietly did its job
The connection: On Friday Amazon jumped about 15% while Apple fell about 7%. Inside a broad index fund the two partly offset each other - an everyday, undramatic example of why spreading money across many companies can smooth the ride, even within one industry.
🌡 The fear gauge relaxed
The connection: The VIX, Wall Street's measure of expected swings, eased to about 17 as the rally calmed nerves into the weekend. Readings near 20 are typical, so a drift lower suggests less anxiety priced in - though calm readings can change quickly when the news does.
08 History Rhymes
Echoes from the past
History never repeats exactly, but its themes recur. These sketches are approximate and educational — meant to build intuition, not to predict.
2011 — The U.S. credit downgrade
In August 2011, after a bruising standoff in Washington over the federal debt ceiling, a major ratings agency stripped the United States of its top-tier AAA credit rating for the first time in history. The logic seemed simple: a weaker credit rating should make a borrower's debt look riskier and push its borrowing costs up. Yet the opposite happened. As markets wobbled, nervous investors rushed toward the very Treasury bonds that had just been downgraded, treating them as the safest place to wait out the storm. Their prices rose and their yields fell.
The rhyme: The rhyme with Friday isn't the event - it's the reminder that markets don't always move the way a headline suggests they should. On Friday the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to a new high for the year even as stocks rose, and the dollar had its worst week in three months while yields went up. Rates, the dollar, and stocks each answer to their own crowd of buyers and sellers, so they can surprise you by moving in directions that seem to contradict each other - which is exactly why it helps to understand what each number is really measuring.
09 You Might Be Asking
“If a handful of giant companies can move the whole S&P 500, does owning an index fund still count as being diversified?”
It still spreads your money across many companies, which is the heart of diversification - but Friday is a fair reminder that a broad index fund is not evenly spread. Because the S&P 500 weights companies by size, its largest handful of names can make up a sizable share of the whole. So when one of them moves a lot, as Amazon did, your fund feels it more than a simple count of “500 companies” would suggest.
That doesn't undo the benefit. You still own hundreds of businesses across many industries, and on the same day Amazon's jump and Apple's slide partly canceled out inside the fund. The practical takeaway is just to know how concentrated your “diversified” fund actually is - a quick look at its top holdings shows how much rides on the biggest few. This is general education, not advice about your particular accounts.
10 One Idea to Grow On · Planning
Dollar-cost averaging - what the schedule really buys you
This week’s thread: All week we've been on dollar-cost averaging - investing a fixed amount on a regular schedule. Each day added a lens: how it works, a worked example, what it does in a falling market, whether you're already doing it, and a weekend gut-check. Sunday closes the week with the quiet reason the habit works at all.
After a week of mechanics, here's the Sunday version: the biggest thing a regular investing schedule buys you may not be a better price - it's one less decision to make.
Think about what Friday would have asked of anyone trying to invest by feel. Was the green day a good moment to buy, or was the narrow, top-heavy tape a reason to wait? Reasonable people could argue either side, and by Monday the question changes again. A set schedule quietly retires that debate: the money goes in on its day whether the headlines are calm or scary, so you don't have to be right about timing to keep making progress.
That matters because the hardest part of investing tends to be behavioral, not mathematical. Selling after a frightening day and then hesitating to buy back in is a familiar pattern, and it often costs more than any single mispriced purchase. Automating the decision takes the moment-to-moment emotion out of it.
None of this promises better returns than investing all at once, and it isn't a market call. It's a way to build a durable habit that keeps running through calm weeks and turbulent ones alike. Next week we move from “when” to “what”: asset allocation, the mix of stocks, bonds, and cash that shapes most of your long-run results.
Domain: Investment Planning · Aligned to the CFP body of knowledge · General education, not advice.
Next week: from “when” to “what” - asset allocation, the mix of stocks, bonds, and cash that shapes most of your long-run results.
11 On the Calendar
What to watch next week
Mon Aug 3
ISM manufacturing PMI (July) opens the month - a first read on factory activity - alongside more corporate earnings.
Tue Aug 4
JOLTS job openings offer a look at labor demand as markets weigh how fast hiring is cooling.
Wed Aug 5
ISM services PMI and the ADP private-payrolls report land midweek - a preview of Friday's big jobs number.
Thu Aug 6
Weekly jobless claims and more earnings, with bond yields and the dollar still in focus after Friday's moves.
Fri Aug 7
The July jobs report (nonfarm payrolls) headlines the week - the single release most likely to move rate expectations.
Vocabulary:PMI = Purchasing Managers' Index, a monthly survey gauging whether activity is expanding or contracting (above 50 = growth). JOLTS = Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, a government count of open jobs. Nonfarm payrolls = the monthly tally of jobs added or lost across the economy, the headline of the jobs report.
Market Cap Explained (FINRA) - why bigger companies swing a cap-weighted index more, and how that can quietly concentrate risk in a few names.
Weekend
Mutual Funds (SEC Investor.gov) - a calm weekend primer on how funds pool your money and what to check about the ones you own.
13 Today's Mini-Glossary
Terms from this issue
Cap-weighted index
A market index (like the S&P 500) in which bigger companies count for more, so a giant's move sways the whole index far more than a small firm's.
Cloud computing
Renting computing power, storage, and software over the internet instead of owning the hardware. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest such business.
Guidance
A company's own forecast for its future sales or profit. Weak or strong guidance often moves a stock more than the results it just reported.
Market breadth
A measure of how many stocks are taking part in a move - how many rose versus fell. Broad participation is seen as healthier than a rally carried by only a few large names.
Memory chip
A component that stores data in devices and data centers. Surging AI demand has tightened supply, raising costs for the companies that need them.
Nonfarm payrolls
The monthly count of jobs added or lost across the U.S. economy (excluding farms) - the headline figure of the jobs report.
PMI
Purchasing Managers' Index, a monthly survey of business activity; a reading above 50 signals expansion, below 50 contraction.
Small-cap stock
Shares of a smaller company. The Russell 2000 tracks about 2,000 of them; being smaller and more rate-sensitive, they often move differently from mega-caps.
Treasury yield
The annual return for lending to the U.S. government. The 10-year yield is a benchmark that shapes mortgage rates and stock valuations.
U.S. Dollar Index (DXY)
A gauge of the dollar's value against a basket of major currencies. A falling DXY means a weaker dollar.
14 Test Yourself
One question to make it stick
🧠 Try it yourself
On Friday the S&P 500 finished higher, yet the small-cap Russell 2000 fell and more stocks declined than advanced. If most stocks were down, how did the index still close up?
Reason it out before you read on
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Answer
Because the S&P 500 is market-cap weighted: each company counts in proportion to its total size, not as one equal vote. A handful of giant winners - led by Amazon's roughly 15% jump - added more value to the index than the many smaller decliners subtracted. The Russell 2000, which tracks smaller companies, had no such giant to carry it, so it slipped. The lesson is that a rising index measures dollars of value, not a headcount of winners and losers - so a green day can sit on top of a mostly-red market when leadership is narrow.
🎯 If you remember one thing today
When one giant jumps and another slides on the same day, a broadly diversified fund nets the two against each other - the quiet, unglamorous reason that spreading money across many companies tends to smooth the ride, even within one industry. Knowing how much of a “diversified” fund rides on its biggest few names is what makes the word mean something.
This issue was researched and drafted with Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, working from public sources — that's part of how The OH Brief sustains a daily cadence. AI can make mistakes, so in the live edition every figure is traced to a real, dated primary source before it's sent. This is general educational information only, and not financial advice. Figures and charts in this preview are illustrative.
Disclosures
Educational information only; figures are not real-time. All market data and figures in this issue are point-in-time snapshots drawn from third-party sources as of the dates and times noted (generally the close of Friday, July 31, 2026) and are not live quotes; they may already be out of date and should be independently verified before any decision.
The OH Brief is general educational information only. It is not investment, tax, legal, accounting, or financial advice, and it is not a recommendation, offer, or solicitation to buy, sell, or hold any security or to adopt any investment strategy. Reading it creates no advisory, fiduciary, or client relationship. The publication does not provide personalized advice and does not consider any individual's objectives or circumstances; consult a qualified professional about your specific situation before making financial decisions.
Any examples are hypothetical and for illustration only. All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal; past performance does not guarantee future results, and no outcome is promised or assured. Statements of opinion are the author's own, are labeled as such, and may change without notice; forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. Market data are drawn from third-party sources believed reliable as of the dates and times noted but are not guaranteed to be accurate, complete, or current, and figures change constantly.
Primary / official: Treasury yields - U.S. Treasury, FRED (10-yr); investor education - FINRA, SEC Investor.gov. Secondary / journalism: Friday index closes & the July wrap - Washington Times / AP, TheStreet; Big Tech's ~$1.5T weekly value gain & Amazon's AWS quarter - CNBC, CNBC (Amazon); Apple's results & guidance - Bloomberg; the dollar's worst week in three months - Bloomberg. Every figure is traced to a real, dated source before delivery per the OH Source Standards SOP; figures are point-in-time. Gold, bitcoin, oil and the dollar index are shown as approximate late-day levels.