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How did the US stock market perform today, including the major indices, the biggest movers, and what drove them?

September 11, 2026

Research Report

Question: You are a rigorous financial research analyst. Ground EVERY quantitative claim in data you actually pulled from the finance tools — never invent a price, multiple, or indicator. Answer the REQUEST below by:

  1. Identifying the specific publicly-tradable assets (tickers) it concerns. When the request is open-ended (e.g. "top up-and-coming tech companies"), first find concrete candidates: use finance_data (action=search) to resolve names to tickers, and web search / the browser for qualitative discovery.
  2. For EVERY ticker you discuss, pull real data with the finance tools:
  1. Writing a concise report: a short investment thesis for each asset (why it is interesting, grounded in the pulled price/fundamentals/news/insider data), then a summary table with columns: Ticker | Price | 1d% | 5d% | 20d% | RSI | P/E | Trend. Rank assets by thesis strength, cite notable news/insider signals, and clearly flag any ticker you could not fetch.

REQUEST: How did the US stock market perform today, including the major indices, the biggest movers, and what drove them?

Date: 2026-09-11T04:57:11.622919430+00:00

Coverage window: 2026-09-11 – 2026-09-11

Rounds: 1

Status: PARTIAL

Objective check — 0 of 7 criteria met

The run produced work, but the objective below is not fully achieved. Each unmet criterion names what is still outstanding.

Evidence: 237 claims · 42 sourced · 10 partial · 5 unsupported · 177 self-reported (no independent source) · 25 single-source

Executive Summary

There is no US session to report for 2026-09-11. Every finance-tool pull executed on 2026-09-11 returned a last bar of 2026-09-10 — daily, hourly, 5-minute and 1-minute series all terminate at the 2026-09-10 close (last_bar: 2026-09-10 19:59:00 = 15:59 ET), and the newest timestamped news item is 2026-09-11T04:30:41Z (00:30 ET). The pull landed in the overnight/pre-market window, hours before the 09:30 ET open, so no 2026-09-11 close, % change, sector ranking or intraday mover exists to be fetched. The CNBC live blog covering the session is stamped "Updated Fri, Sep 11 2026 12:08 AM EDT" and its content is a preview — "Stock futures are little changed as key consumer inflation report looms ahead" — not a close (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/stock-market-today-live-updates.html). The expected /2026/09/11/ session file returned HTTP 404.

What is dated in-window for 2026-09-11 is a pre-market setup, and it is unambiguously risk-off: Brent crude at $108.21 (+0.54%) and WTI at $102.96 (+0.47%) on fresh Strait of Hormuz escalation; Asia-Pacific equities down hard (Kospi −2.7%, Nikkei 225 −2.6%, Topix −1.86%, ASX 200 −1.0%); S&P and Nasdaq-100 futures roughly flat, Dow futures −11 points; and August CPI due at 8:30 ET with consensus at +0.4% m/m / 3.4% y/y and fed funds futures pricing a ~71% chance of a rate hike at the 16 Sept FOMC. All from the fetched CNBC page above.

The last completed session — Thursday 2026-09-10 — was the fourth consecutive down day, led lower by tech and small caps, with oil above $100 and the 10-year yield at its highest since October 2023. Everything below is labelled with the session it belongs to; no 2026-09-11 print has been invented.

Major Indices — Last Completed Session (2026-09-10)

finance_data action=analyze, interval=1d. Levels cross-check to the tick against CNBC's dated 2026-09-10 recap ("The S&P 500 fell 0.58% to end at 7,591.70, while the Nasdaq Composite slid 0.65% to 26,081.72. It was the fourth consecutive day of declines").

IndexSymbol (feed)Close1d %5d %20d %Trend
S&P 500SPX (CBOE)7,591.70−0.585−0.977−2.024downtrend
Nasdaq CompositeIXIC (NASDAQ)26,081.72−0.654−0.519−1.906strong_uptrend
Dow Jones Industrial AverageDJI (TVC)52,069.22−0.605−1.881−3.173downtrend
Russell 2000RUT (CBOE)2,890.95−1.037−2.107−5.074downtrend

Index-symbol caveat: the caret-prefixed symbols ^GSPC, ^IXIC, ^DJI, ^RUT returned "no data on any exchange" across NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, BATS, CBOE, TVC, SP and DJ. The non-caret equivalents above resolved in one pull; the Nasdaq Composite specifically resolved only there. RSI-14 readings diverged between pulls (S&P 500 43.79 in the cross-checked pull vs 51.4 in another); I use the pull whose levels match CNBC and flag the discrepancy rather than pick.

ETF proxies, same session:

TickerPrice1d %5d %20d %RSI-14Trend
SPY757.83−0.599−0.958−1.89844.09downtrend
QQQ708.69−1.064−0.078−2.07446.31downtrend
DIA520.75−0.634−1.860−3.05338.43downtrend
IWM287.70−1.012−2.146−4.95936.20downtrend
SMH560.28−2.44————

SMH was the weakest ETF pulled, consistent with tech leading the decline. (The analyze batch mis-resolved SMH to an LSE listing at 106.36, −1.646%; that row is disregarded — the US quote is 560.28.)

Sector Board — 2026-09-10, Ranked by 1-Day Change

RankETFSectorPrice1d %5d %20d %RSI-14Trend
1XLCCommunication Services111.50+0.605−0.818+1.11550.08uptrend
2XLPConsumer Staples83.09+0.048−2.853−2.33938.20downtrend
3XLFFinancials56.87−0.333−1.370−1.81344.43downtrend
4XLYConsumer Discretionary111.96−0.445−2.525−5.03036.72strong_downtrend
5XLVHealth Care165.66−0.552−4.215−1.65041.62downtrend
6XLEEnergy64.93−0.582−0.261+6.39065.21strong_uptrend
7XLIIndustrials170.55−0.722−1.291−8.24730.10downtrend
8XLREReal Estate43.05−0.829−1.555−3.23731.80downtrend
9XLUUtilities42.52−0.978−0.352−3.01139.28strong_downtrend
10XLBMaterials50.76−1.226−4.136−3.46137.15downtrend
11XLKInformation Technology185.22−1.411+0.882−1.92750.82strong_uptrend

Only the defensive/communication pair (XLC, XLP) closed green. Energy was not the drag — XLE was mid-pack at −0.582% despite the oil spike, sat at 94.8% of its range with an RSI of 65.2, and is the only sector up over 20 days (+6.39%). Tech and materials led the decline. Data-coverage note: XLK/XLF/XLV returned in some pulls and failed in others ("no data… on any exchange"); XLI returned in one pull only. No pull returned all 11 simultaneously.

Biggest Movers — 2026-09-10

TickerPrice1d %Direction
AAPL326.57+3.561up
XOM165.23+0.609up
GOOGL332.60+0.590up
MSFT492.44+0.161up
AMZN251.89−0.202down
JPM353.56−0.324down
AVGO360.83−0.974down
TSLA363.56−1.155down
UNH388.28−1.216down
META644.38−1.424down
NVDA218.36−2.374down
AMD503.60−3.357down

Catalyst warning: no per-ticker news was pulled, so no company-specific catalyst is verified for any of these moves. The only supported inference is sector-level — semis (SMH −2.44%) and tech (XLK −1.411%) were the weakest complex, consistent with AMD and NVDA leading decliners. That is a pattern consistent with the data, not a verified cause. These rows come from a 60-bar series, so SMA-200 is null and the tool returns trend: "unknown".

Cross-Asset and Macro — 2026-09-10 (unless stated)

GaugeSymbolValue1d %5d %20d %Note
CBOE Volatility IndexVIX17.84+8.384+17.368+22.61220.3% of 52wk range
10-yr Treasury yieldTNX (TVC)4.945%+2.254+3.128+5.595RSI 71.8; 99.3% of 52wk range
Crude proxyUSO158.38+5.608+12.207+24.415RSI 78.3; 99.1% of range
20+yr TreasuriesTLT80.78−1.162−1.428−1.6201.6% of 52wk range — long bonds at the low
VIX futures proxyVIXY18.16+3.417+5.093−3.250volatility bid
US Dollar IndexDXY (TVC)99.102+0.010−0.057−0.536flat
GoldTVC:GOLD$4,331.73+0.251−3.148—flat after a 5-day slide

Realtime spot probes (action=quote source=pyth) returned HTTP 401 Unauthorized for SPY, QQQ, DIA, IWM and BTCUSD — no spot cross-check was possible. ^VIX, ^TNX, CL=F, GC=F, DX-Y.NYB, GLD and UUP all returned "no data on any exchange" or timed out; the values above come from the TradingView symbol family, a different instrument reference, and are labelled as such.

What Drove the Tape

2026-09-10 (background session, fourth straight decline). Two inputs, per the fetched CNBC page: WTI "jumped over $100 per barrel" on the seventh month of the US–Iran conflict, and the 10-year note yield topped 4.95%, the highest since October 2023. August PPI that morning rose 0.4% m/m and 5.4% y/y. The tool data agrees with the direction: VIX +8.4% to 17.84, TLT at the bottom 1.6% of its range, USO at the top 99.1% of its range with RSI 78.3.

2026-09-11 (in-window, pre-market). The dated 2026-09-11 items are:

DriverDetailSource
Oil escalationIRGC struck a US "Saildrone-type" vessel in the Strait of Hormuz; projectiles hit two vessels off Oman (UKMTO); Houthis captured Mocha, Yemen. Brent Nov $108.21 (+0.54%), WTI Oct $102.96 (+0.47%)CNBC, stamped Sep 11 12:08 AM EDT
Asia risk-offKospi −2.7% (SK Hynix −4%, Samsung −3.8%), Nikkei 225 −2.6%, Topix −1.86%, ASX 200 −1.0%, Hang Seng −1.4%, CSI 300 −0.9%CNBC (same page); FinancialJuice "Taiwan stocks fall over 2%" 01:47Z (https://www.financialjuice.com/News/9758569/Taiwan-stocks-fall-over-2.aspx)
CPI binary, 8:30 ETConsensus +0.4% m/m / 3.4% y/y; ~71% FedWatch odds of a hike at the 16 Sept FOMC. Actual print not fetchedCNBC (same page)
Hormuz shippingCommodity vessel crossings in single digits Thursday, vs a 10-day average near 15https://www.financialjuice.com/News/9758683/Strait-of-Hormuz-commodity-vessel-crossings-stay-in-single-digits-on-Thursday-below-10-day-average-near-15-data-shows.aspx
Iran–Gulf diplomacyIran and Gulf states to convene toward a Hormuz agreement (FT)https://www.financialjuice.com/News/9758742/Iran-and-Gulf-states-to-convene-in-effort-for-Hormuz-agreement-FT.aspx
Hawkish G10BOJ set to hike 25bp next week; Barclays sees ECB +25bp in December 2026https://www.financialjuice.com/News/9758694/BOJ-set-to-increase-interest-rates-most-likely-by-25-basis-points-at-next-weeks-policy-meeting-sources-say.aspx · https://www.financialjuice.com/News/9758700/Barclays-anticipates-ECB-to-raise-interest-rates-by-25-bp-in-December-2026.aspx
PolicyTreasury Secretary Bessent: a large bank to be sanctioned Monday 14 SeptCNBC (same page)

Not a 2026-09-11 movers list: Chinese chipmaker Enflame rose 206% in its Shanghai debut (CNBC, same page) — a Shanghai listing, not US-traded, with no US price.

Summary Table

ETF proxies and indices, all 2026-09-10 closes. P/E is not carried for index or sector ETFs and no fundamentals pull was made, so that column is n/a throughout rather than estimated.

TickerPrice1d %5d %20d %RSIP/ETrend
SPX7,591.70−0.585−0.977−2.02443.79n/adowntrend
IXIC26,081.72−0.654−0.519−1.90646.94n/astrong_uptrend
DJI52,069.22−0.605−1.881−3.17338.20n/adowntrend
RUT2,890.95−1.037−2.107−5.07436.15n/adowntrend
SPY757.83−0.599−0.958−1.89844.09n/adowntrend
QQQ708.69−1.064−0.078−2.07446.31n/adowntrend
DIA520.75−0.634−1.860−3.05338.43n/adowntrend
IWM287.70−1.012−2.146−4.95936.20n/adowntrend
XLE64.93−0.582−0.261+6.39065.21n/astrong_uptrend
XLK185.22−1.411+0.882−1.92750.82n/astrong_uptrend
XLC111.50+0.605−0.818+1.11550.08n/auptrend

Unfetched / Flagged

ItemStatus
2026-09-11 close / % change for S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, DJIA, Russell 2000UNFETCHED — no 2026-09-11 bar exists at any interval (1d/1h/15m/5m/1m all stop at 2026-09-10)
2026-09-11 sector rankingUNFETCHED
2026-09-11 US single-stock movers + catalystsUNFETCHED — no verified in-window source lists them
^GSPC, ^IXIC, ^DJI, ^RUT, ^SPX, ^NDX, ^VIX, ^TNX, US500"no data on any exchange" on every exchange tried
CL=F, GC=F, DX-Y.NYB, GLD, UUPTimed out or no data — gold and DXY for 2026-09-11 not obtained
August CPI actual print (2026-09-11, 8:30 ET)UNFETCHED — only the consensus (0.4% m/m / 3.4% y/y) is sourced
action=quote source=pythHTTP 401 Unauthorized on all symbols
XLI, XLF, XLV sector ETFsReturned in some pulls, failed in others — coverage was never 11/11 in a single pull
Bloomberg, WSJ, TheStreet, Investopedia, Premarketprice, WeeklyTrader, WallStreetZen, vittarthi.comSurfaced in search snippets advertising 2026-09-11 content; not fetched, status unverified, used for no claim

Analysis

The session you asked about had not happened when the data was pulled, and that is the answer, not a gap to work around. Six independent probes — daily, hourly, 15-minute, 5-minute, 1-minute and the news tape — all terminate at 2026-09-10 19:59 UTC, and the only fetched page stamped inside 2026-09-11 is a pre-market preview. Any index close or movers list for 2026-09-11 would be fabricated.

What the setup does tell you is directional and one-sided. The three in-window forces — oil above $100 with a live Hormuz escalation, a 10-year yield at a near-three-year high and pinned at the 99.3rd percentile of its range, and a CPI print that markets price as ~71% likely to force a Fed hike — all point the same way into the open. That is the same combination that produced four straight down days through 2026-09-10, with the damage ordered by risk appetite: RUT −1.04% and IWM −1.01% worse than SPY −0.60%, tech (XLK −1.41%, SMH −2.44%) worst of the nine sectors that returned, and defensives the only green.

The one genuine divergence worth holding onto is energy. XLE fell only 0.58% on a day crude rose 5.6%, sits at 94.8% of its range with RSI 65.2, and is the only sector up over 20 days (+6.39%). The oil shock is being priced as a margin problem for the rest of the tape and an earnings tailwind for energy.

Risks & Open Questions

Claims without independent support

These statements appear in the narrative above but are not backed by text retrieved from a source. SELF-REPORTED means the only thing asserting it is the swarm's own worker output — the narrative was written from that output, so it corroborates nothing. Treat all of these as unverified.

Detailed Findings

Round 0 · Finding 1

US Equity Market Recap — Data Availability Report for 2026-09-11

Executive Summary

The single most important finding is a data-availability one, and it governs the entire report: the US cash session of Friday 2026-09-11 has not yet closed in any finance-tool pull, so no closing level, % change, sector ranking, or mover for 2026-09-11 exists to be reported.

Every instrument I pulled — four indices, all 11 SPDR sector ETFs, 28 single stocks, and the cross-asset complex — returns a most-recent daily bar dated 2026-09-10, and the newest timestamped headline anywhere in the news feed is 2026-09-11T04:35:21Z (00:35 ET). The finance_data feed is current only through roughly 2026-09-11 00:00 UTC (2026-09-10 20:00 ET). A daily bar for 2026-09-11 would require the session to have closed at 16:00 ET (20:00 UTC); it does not exist.

Corroboration from an independent, in-window page: the StrongBuyAnalytics outlook, whose JSON-LD datePublished is 2026-09-11 and which states on-page "Updated September 10, 2026 at 04:23 PM ET", is written in the future tense about Friday's session — "Friday's session is centered on the 8:30 AM ET CPI release… overnight flow, actual CPI reaction, and any fresh headlines are not yet available" (https://strongbuyanalytics.com/stock-market-outlook).

I therefore report the last completed session (Thursday 2026-09-10) as the most recent hard data, flag every 2026-09-11 deliverable as UNFETCHED, and give the after-hours/pre-market picture that is in evidence. I have not invented a single 2026-09-11 figure.

Key Findings

Finding 1 — 2026-09-11 index closes are UNFETCHED (Confidence: HIGH)

Required index2026-09-11 close2026-09-11 %chgStatus
S&P 500——UNFETCHED — no 2026-09-11 bar in feed
Nasdaq Composite——UNFETCHED — no 2026-09-11 bar in feed
Dow Jones Industrial Average——UNFETCHED — no 2026-09-11 bar in feed
Russell 2000——UNFETCHED — no 2026-09-11 bar in feed

Symbol-resolution notes (all flagged, none silently dropped): ^GSPC, ^IXIC, ^DJI, ^RUT returned "no data … on any exchange". The equivalent TVC-exchange symbols SPX, IXIC, DJI, RUT

Round 0 · Finding 2

US Market Recap Request — 2026-09-11 Session: DATA-UNAVAILABLE FINDING

Bottom line: the 2026-09-11 US cash session does not exist in the finance tools at pull time. Every index, sector, mover, and cross-asset figure the mission asks for as a 2026-09-11 value is UNFETCHED. I am flagging this rather than substituting an estimate. The most recent recorded session in every finance tool I pulled is 2026-09-10; the most recent news item available is timestamped 2026-09-11T04:30:41Z (00:30 ET) — i.e. the pull sits in the overnight/pre-market window of 2026-09-11, before the US open. I therefore report (a) the pull-time data cutoff as the primary finding, (b) the last recorded session (2026-09-10) as clearly-labelled not-2026-09-11 background, and (c) the only genuinely in-window (2026-09-11-dated) evidence available: overnight wire headlines from finance_news.

1. Executive Summary

Question askedAnswerStatus
S&P 500 close & % change for 2026-09-11Not availableUNFETCHED
Nasdaq Composite close & % change for 2026-09-11Not availableUNFETCHED
Dow Jones Industrial Average close & % change for 2026-09-11Not availableUNFETCHED
Russell 2000 close & % change for 2026-09-11Not availableUNFETCHED
Sector ranking for 2026-09-11Not availableUNFETCHED
Individual stock movers for 2026-09-11Not available (no single-stock pull returned 2026-09-11 bars)UNFETCHED
Cross-asset/macro for 2026-09-11Not availableUNFETCHED
Headlines dated 2026-09-11 explaining the sessionHeadlines exist, but none describe a US cash close (there was none at pull time)PARTIAL — overnight wires only

Evidence of the cutoff (all from tool calls run 2026-09-11):

Confidence that the 2026-09-11 session is unrecorded at pull time: HIGH (0.9). Six independent probes (daily, hourly, 5-minute, history, quote, news) all terminate at 2026-09-10.

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Round 0 · Finding 3

US Market Session Recap — Requested Date: 2026-09-11 (Friday)

⚠️ HEADLINE FINDING — THE REQUESTED SESSION HAD NOT TRADED AT DATA-PULL TIME

The 2026-09-11 US session percentage changes for the 11 SPDR sector ETFs, SMH and IWM could not be pulled, because they do not yet exist in the finance data feed. Every finance_data call I executed on 2026-09-11 returned bars terminating at the 2026-09-10 session. There is no 2026-09-11 bar at any interval.

Evidence from the tool pulls themselves (all executed 2026-09-11):

CallIntervalfirst_barlast_bar returned
finance_data action=analyze SPY/QQQ/DIA/IWM/SMH1d2025-09-12 13:30:002026-09-10 13:30:00
finance_data action=analyze SPY,QQQ5m2026-09-09 18:10:002026-09-10 19:55:00
finance_data action=analyze DIA,IWM15m2026-09-04 14:30:002026-09-10 19:45:00
finance_data action=analyze SPY,QQQ,IWM1h2026-07-31 16:30:002026-09-10 19:30:00

Interpreting the timestamps: 13:30:00 UTC = 09:30 ET (session open) for daily bars, and 19:30–19:55 UTC = 15:30–15:55 ET (the close) for intraday bars. The newest observation in the feed is the close of 2026-09-10, and the finance_news pull returned nothing newer than 2026-09-11T04:30:41Z = 00:30 ET on 2026-09-11 — i.e. the feed is positioned in the pre-dawn hours of 2026-09-11, hours before the 09:30 ET open.

This is corroborated by an independent web search (DuckDuckGo HTML results page, fetched 2026-09-11), whose snippets are timestamped in the early hours of 2026-09-11:

Conclusion: at pull time on 2026-09-11 the US cash session had not opened. Any figure presented as a "2026-09-11 close" would be fabricated. Per the mission's anti-goals, I am not doing that. Below I report (a) what the tools actually returned, labelled as the 2026-09-10 session, and (b) the in-window 2026-09-11 pre-market news drivers.

1. Coverage / unfetched flag

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Round 0 · Finding 4

US Equity Market Recap — Session of Friday 2026-09-11 (US Eastern)

⚠️ HEADLINE FINDING FIRST: NO 2026-09-11 CLOSING DATA EXISTS IN THE TOOL FEED

The 2026-09-11 US cash session had not produced a completed bar in any finance tool at the time of collection. I will not state a 2026-09-11 close, level, or % change, because none was returned by a tool call. Every index level in this report is for the last completed session, 2026-09-10, and is labelled as such.

Evidence that 2026-09-11 is unfetched, not merely missed:

ProbeResult
finance_data analyze SPY 1d, 260 barslast_bar: 2026-09-10 13:30:00
finance_data analyze SPY 1h, 40 barslast_bar: 2026-09-10 19:30:00
finance_data analyze SPY 5m, 60 barslast_bar: 2026-09-10 19:55:00
finance_data analyze SPY 1m, 30 barslast_bar: 2026-09-10 19:59:00 (≈15:59 ET)
finance_data quote source=pyth (SPY,QQQ,DIA,IWM)HTTP 401 Unauthorized — no spot tick
finance_news (all 3 attempts, incl. query + symbols)count: 0; financialjuice: HTTP Error 429, yahoo empty

A 1-minute bar stamped 19:59 UTC on 2026-09-10 is the 2026-09-10 cash close. There is no 2026-09-11 bar at any interval. Corroborating in-window pages are also pre-session artifacts: the outlook page below is stamped "Updated September 10, 2026 at 04:23 PM ET", the premarket-mover page is explicitly a pre-market page for 2026-09-11, and a Barron's live blog snippet reads "As of Sept. 11, 12:25 a.m. ET." The consistent read is that 2026-09-11 was pre-open or intraday when these pulls ran.

Therefore the mission's core requirement — "closing level AND daily % change for the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, DJIA and Russell 2000 for 2026-09-11, each traceable to a finance_data analyze call" — CANNOT BE MET and is reported as a gap, not filled.

1. Executive Summary

2. Key Findings

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Round 0 · Finding 5

US Stock Market Recap — Session of Friday, 2026-09-11

⚠️ Headline integrity note (read first)

I was NOT able to retrieve 2026-09-11 closing data for any US index, sector ETF, or individual stock from the finance tools. Every finance_data pull I executed returned a daily series whose last bar is 2026-09-10, and the two attempts to fetch the raw cash indices returned explicit failures. I am therefore unable to state a closing level or daily % change for the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, Dow Jones Industrial Average, or Russell 2000 for 2026-09-11, and I will not estimate them. This is a data-availability gap, not a market event. Per the task rules I am flagging it rather than filling it from memory.

The section below separates (A) what the tools actually returned, (B) what I verified in-window from a fetched dated source, and (C) leads I could not verify.

1. Executive Summary

2. Key Findings

A. What the finance tools actually returned (all data stamped 2026-09-10, NOT 2026-09-11)

finance_data action=analyze interval=1d — last bar 2026-09-10 13:30:00 in every case. These are prior-session / background values and must not be read as 2026-09-11 moves.

TickerLast price1d %5d %20d %RSI-14TrendBar date
SPY (S&P 500 ETF proxy)757.83−0.599−0.958−1.89844.09downtrend2026-09-10
QQQ (Nasdaq-100 ETF proxy)708.69−1.064−0.078−2.07446.31downtrend2026-09-10
DIA (Dow ETF proxy)520.75−0.634−1.860−3.05338.43downtrend2026-09-10
IWM (Russell 2000 ETF proxy)287.70−1.012−2.146−4.95936.20downtrend2026-09-10

Source: finance_data action=analyze symbols=SPY,QQQ,DIA,IWM (tool pull, 2026-09-11; last bar 2026-09-10).

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Round 0 · Finding 6

US Equity Market — Session Recap Requested for 2026-09-11

0. Headline finding (read this first)

The 2026-09-11 US cash session had not yet completed — and in fact had not yet begun — at the time of my data pulls, so no 2026-09-11 closing levels, % changes, movers, or sector results exist to report. Two independent pieces of evidence:

The third-party page https://vittarthi.com/markets/us (fetched, stamped "Generated: 11 Sep 2026 · 10:00 IST" = 00:30 ET on 2026-09-11) independently corroborates this: it states "figures shown outside US hours reflect the last completed session," and its 2026-09-11 "Market Wrap-Up" slot was empty of numbers at pull time.

Consequence: I will not manufacture 2026-09-11 index closes, % moves, or a movers list. Everything quantitative below is labelled with the session it actually belongs to. The 2026-09-11 material I can document is the pre-market setup, the macro calendar, and the cross-asset tape — which is precisely the macro cause the mission asked me to tie the day to.

1. Instrument-fetch ledger (explicit UNFETCHED flags, per constraint)

Instrument requestedStatus
^GSPC (S&P 500 index)UNFETCHED — "no data … on any exchange"
^IXIC (Nasdaq Composite)UNFETCHED — same error
^DJI (Dow Jones Industrial Average)UNFETCHED — same error
^RUT (Russell 2000)UNFETCHED — same error
^SPX, ^NDX (alt index symbols)UNFETCHED — same error
^VIXUNFETCHED — same error
^TNX (10-yr yield)UNFETCHED — same error
CL=F, GC=F, DX-Y.NYBUNFETCHED — the analyze call timed out (180 s) on both attempts
XLE, XLI (Energy, Industrials SPDRs)UNFETCHED — "no data … on any exchange"

Only the ETF proxies (SPY/QQQ/DIA/IWM), nine of eleven sector SPDRs, and five mega-caps returned data — all as of the 2026-09-10 close.

2. Macro calendar and policy events on 2026-09-11

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Investigation Trail

Round 0

Sources

Trace Index

Tool-call traces are persisted under /srv/swarm_web_runs/run-1789101460502-0001/finance_output/traces.

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