{"id":563632,"date":"2026-07-28T14:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563632\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:21:11","slug":"volatility-in-single-stocks-is-rising-it-could-soon-threaten-the-sp-500-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563632\/","title":{"rendered":"Volatility in single stocks is rising. It could soon threaten the S&#038;P 500 too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activity at the index level in stocks belies chaotic dynamics taking place under the hood. The S &amp; P 500 \u2014 despite persistent tensions between Iran and the U.S. and the recent struggles seen in semiconductor stocks \u2014 remains less than 3% below its record high set in June. Partly that&#8217;s due to strong earnings, plus a belief that the U.S. doesn&#8217;t want a prolonged war in the Middle East. Yet what&#8217;s happening the under the surface could soon bubble up and put more pressure on the broader market. I looked at the S &amp; P 500 components this morning and found the following: Through Monday&#8217;s close, there are roughly 160 S &amp; P 500 members trading below their 50-day moving averages. That level is used by traders and technicians to gauge an asset&#8217;s short-term momentum. If price is below the 50-day, it tends to indicate a near term deterioration, with the potential for greater losses ahead. There are also 197 index constituents that are down for the month. Of those, 43 have fallen 10% or more in July. Lastly, more than half of the S &amp; P 500 has seen its relative strength index decline over the past month. Specifically, RSI has dropped in that time for 264 stocks in the S &amp; P 500. There is a &#8220;growing divergence between muted index-level volatility and elevated single-stock volatility,&#8221; wrote Alex Sagal, global equity analyst at Wells Fargo Investment Institute. This comes as traders await earnings from four megacap companies. Microsoft , Apple , Amazon and Meta Platforms are due to post results this week. So far, earnings have been better than expected. Roughly one-third of the S &amp; P 500 has posted bottom-line results. Of those, 83% have exceeded analyst expectations, FactSet data shows. Tesla and Alphabet , however, were two high-profile misses that weighed on the market last week. &#8220;As earnings season progresses, sustained stock-specific volatility could begin to translate into greater index-level volatility,&#8221; Sagal said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Activity at the index level in stocks belies chaotic dynamics taking place under the hood. The S &amp;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1684,356,940,114,357,85,942,87,46,10809,355,3310,1760,12520,1032],"class_list":["post-563632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-apple-inc","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-il","tag-investment-strategy","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-sp-500-index","tag-stock-markets","tag-tesla-inc","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}