What crossed the wire during SPY's biggest overnight gap of H1 2026
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-07-26, from Why Do Stocks Gap Up or Down Overnight?.
| et_published | source | headline |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 08 03:28 | Benzinga | Dow Jones Surges Over 2% On US-Iran Ceasefire As Bullish April Seasonality Kicks |
| Apr 08 08:58 | Benzinga | Stock Market Today: S&P 500, Nasdaq Futures Surge As Trump Declares Ceasefire On |
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- 2 × 3
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- No missing values
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- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
et_published |
text | 2 distinct values (Apr 08 03:28, Apr 08 08:58) | |
source |
text | 1 distinct value (Benzinga) | |
headline |
text | 2 distinct values |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT formatDateTime(toTimeZone(published_utc, 'America/New_York'), '%b %d %H:%i') AS et_published,
JSONExtractString(toString(publisher), 'name') AS source,
substring(title, 1, 80) AS headline
FROM global_markets.stocks_news
WHERE published_utc >= toDateTime('2026-04-07 16:00:00', 'America/New_York')
AND published_utc < toDateTime('2026-04-08 09:30:00', 'America/New_York')
AND has(tickers, 'SPY')
ORDER BY published_utc
LIMIT 10
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