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Today, locked out of the walled garden. Apple introduces Friday night baseball, of course, without baseball, more on what's next for the company and the stock.

Then very dealers in a bit of a pickle. The.s investigates possible insider trading on this activation microsoft trade the author

who uncovered the scoop is going to join us this hour later on this executive order on crypto

has prices higher the president and bitcoin coming up next deep we're going to start with tech and what a rebound it is currently on the NASDAQ.

It's up over 3% more than 400 points.

Domchu has more and what has been and continues to be a very volatile week for tech.

Yet we continue to talk about this idea and use the words barren market because we are

still in close proximity to that pullback of 20%

or more from the record highs that we've seen. So for the NASDAQ overall, and specifically

the NASDAQ 100, the biggest companies in the NASDAQ, it has been a story of maybe not just

in the medium term. You can see there the downtrend. If we could talk about maybe it being more

of a one step forward, two steps back,

but the volatility has been so severe. It's been like two steps forward and four steps back.

That's how volatile it's been for the NASDAQ overall. And this particular ETF that tracks

the NASDAQ 100 kind of demonstrates that. Broadly speaking, the S&P 500 volatility index,

which tracks just how relatively volatile things are for the broader markets using options prices, is again, pulling back today, it's at 32.

But remember, we got to a high of around 37 during the Russia invasion, and then just kind of if you keep it in context here, the level 20 is more like the long-term average that we

are seeing here for the CBOE volatility index. So it's still very elevated compared to what

has been over the last 200 or so days. Within the industry groups that we are watching closely

for some of the volatility, you have to take a look at some of the more tech and tech-adjacent

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