Thursday, August 13, 2026

The broad market ticked higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 eking out a quarter-point gain. But the real story was buried in the small-cap wreckage and the occasional short squeeze — a day where the tape felt more about repricing extremes than building momentum.

Market movers

S&P 500
772.49
+0.25%
Nasdaq 100
Dow Jones
Russell 2000
Volatility
Top gainers
BOXL Boxlight Corporation 7.87 +167.69%
RMCF Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. 1.52 +126.02%
OFAL OFA Group 1.36 +90.69%
NBIL GraniteShares 2x Long NBIS Daily ETF 34.85 +68.28%
NBIG Leverage Shares 2x Long NBIS Daily ETF 24.00 +68.07%
Top losers
PLAG Planet Green Holdings Corp. 1.20 -79.35%
SLXN Silexion Therapeutics Ltd. 0.45 -56.13%
GLND Greenland Energy Company Common Stock 1.12 -44.53%
NCMI National CineMedia, Inc. 2.22 -41.42%
WXM WF International Limited Ordinary Shares 4.76 -39.75%

BOXL, RMCF, and OFAL led a parade of micro-cap gainers, some up 50–170%, signaling the kind of thin-liquidity reversals you see when shorts cover or retail piles in. On the flip side, PLAG, SLXN, and GLND cratered, each losing 30–80%, which speaks to the volatility at the small end. The S&P's modest climb suggests the large-cap core remained stable while the periphery threw a fit.

One thing to watch
Watch the Nasdaq-100 and broader tech indices tomorrow — SPY's calm belies potential weakness in the semiconductor and software names that anchor the watchlist; if those names roll over, the micro-cap bounce could be a head fake.

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