The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is leading the way at the opening bell US stock market indexes (^IXIC, ^GSPC) start Thursday's session off in the green.

Brad Smith, Alexandra Canal, and Jared Blikre look into trends in the market volatility levels (^VIX), the small-cap Russell 2000 index's (^RUT) multi-year gains, and the Nasdaq 100 (^NDX) tech leaders after Nvidia (NVDA) failed to impress investors with its positive second quarter results.

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This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.