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Daily market wrap
Each evening after the US close we publish a short written record of the day in stocks, crypto, gold, currencies and interest rates.
- Wraps in the archive 4 Since 10 Oct 2026
- Latest wrap 13 Oct Tuesday
- US market Closed Opens 2:30pm UK time on weekdays
- Data last updated 00:55 14 Oct 2026
Latest wrap · Tuesday 13 Oct 2026
Wall Street holds steady as Johnson & Johnson slides 5.6%
The S&P 500 finished Tuesday almost unchanged, with Johnson & Johnson the day's sharpest faller and inflation data due next week.
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- Meta lifts a softer Monday as Wall Street slips and crypto cools Meta rose 3.4% on Monday as US indices eased, bitcoin slipped and the latest US and UK inflation readings came in close to forecasts.
- Stocks close higher on Friday as Palantir leads the gainers US and UK shares closed higher on Friday, with Palantir at the top of the gainers, as attention turns to US inflation and the next rate decisions.
- Stocks edge higher on Friday as Cardano and Sui lead crypto gains US stocks rose on Friday, bitcoin gained 0.9% and US CPI inflation edged up to 3.4% in August, with the Fed's next decision due on 28 October.
How a wrap gets made
It is written by AI from the data on our markets dashboard, checked figure by figure against that data, and kept here as a dated archive you can scroll back through.
- Around 9pm UK timeWe collect the closing figures: indices, shares, crypto, gold, currencies, inflation, rates and the day's headlines.
- DraftClaude writes 280 to 420 words from that data and nothing else.
- Number checkA script matches every figure in the draft to the data. More than one miss and the draft is discarded.
- PublishThe wrap goes live under its date with the headlines it referred to listed underneath.