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Market volatility is high, but I believe we are near a bottom after a ~16% Nasdaq decline; patient investors should hold quality growth names. AI adoption and productivity gains, especially among the Magnificent 7, will drive the next leg higher as sentiment turns and oil fears subside.
Despite doomsday fears over new tariff policies, major stock market indexes have held up strongly over the last year. The real threat to economic growth right now involves geopolitical tensions between the United States and Iran.
Barclays sees the dollar remaining supported by elevated energy prices near-term, but expects it to weaken more broadly once tensions in the Middle East decline a few months down the line.
Signs of escalating tensions in the Middle East, rather than a quick ending to the conflict, were weighing on stocks and other assets.
U.S. stock-index futures fell and oil prices surged again on Sunday, following sharp losses on Wall Street on Friday, as investors are waking up to the reality that the economic effects of the Iran war — now entering its fifth week — are likely to last longer than first expected.
The S&P 500 (SPY) shows bearish technical shifts, with reversal patterns aligning with my 2026 outlook targeting a move toward 5700 in Q4. Quarterly and monthly charts reveal engulfing patterns and distribution, suggesting further downside risk.
Four weeks into the Iran conflict, global financial markets are starting to show some serious signs of strain.
The market focus has shifted from jobs to oil and inflation, with rising oil prices intensifying inflation concerns. March's non-farm payrolls are expected to rebound, but a strong jobs report may increase the risk of Fed rate hikes.
As dip-buyers capitulate, we are nearing a tactical bottom for selective reentry points in the market. Technology and semiconductor gauges, especially signals from NVDA and SOXL, are essential for identifying a true market bottom and safe re-entry.
Markets look ahead to payrolls as energy-driven inflation rises, with major indices below 52-week averages, raising sensitivity to data and Fed signals.
As the Dow enters a tailspin and the Strait of Hormuz remains a bottleneck, investors are ditching the “short-war” theory.
Policymakers suggest interest rates could go up or down. The most probable path may be no move at all.
So far the fall in share prices has been small given the scale of disruption. Here are some of the supports keeping them aloft.
The S&P 500 finished the week at its lowest level in over seven months and is now inches away from correction territory, sitting 8.74% off its all-time high from January 27, 2026. The index posted its fifth consecutive weekly loss, its longest streak since 2022, falling 2.1% from last Friday.
The S&P 500 is down 7.4% for March, with the decline accelerating and large caps, especially the Mag 7, driving losses. Investors are rotating out of large-cap growth and AI hyperscalers.
Inflation fears and forced selling have led to a sharp increase in Treasury yields.
It Is fast-growing, opaque and intertwined with banks but lacks the scale and leverage that cashiered the economy in 2007.
When Markets Disagree, Pay Attention In today's modern version of “Family Feud: Market Edition,” we're looking at a classic internal battle within the market: “Granny” Retail Sector and the consumer stocksvs.“Granddad” Russell 2000 and the small cap stocks When these two are aligned, markets tend to trend smoothly.
For nearly a thousand years, the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) stood as one of the most formidable defenses ever constructed.
Oil and natural-gas are just the beginning of the disruptions that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent rippling through markets for fertilizer, semiconductors, packaged consumer products and cotton.
There are 193 active petrochemical complexes in the Middle East, handling 22% of global supply, all dependent on the Strait of Hormuz for shipping their product. Even though consumers don't feel the price impact as quickly as they do with gasoline, it's coming, with petrochemical use wide-ranging across the economy, and essentially, impacting everything consumed from autos to medical supplies, textiles, detergents, food, and beverages.
Shares of Veeco and Axcelis have lagged their larger semiconductor-equipment peers, making them potentially compelling opportunities for investors.
Q1 2026 saw rapid narrative rotations — from AI optimism, to SaaS multiple compression, to geopolitical shocks — fueling volatility and depressed investor sentiment. Despite negative sentiment, ISM Manufacturing PMI exited contraction after three years, signaling a manufacturing rebound likely tied to infrastructure and reshoring.
The technology sector (XLK) now trades near a 20x P/E, matching the S&P 500, while offering over 50% higher consensus long-term earnings growth. Recent market selloff, driven by geopolitical and macro concerns, presents a selective buying opportunity, especially in tech and certain high-yield names.
Oil industry executives painted a grim picture of the Iran war supply disruption at S&P Global's annual CERAWeek energy conference in Houston. They warned that the disruption is bigger than the markets understand and prices are unlikely to return to pre-war levels soon.
Managed future trading strategies boomed during 2022 when stocks and bonds were both falling and oil prices were last over $100, and are getting more attention during the current market and economic uncertainty. It is a small category, with managed futures ETFs collectively holding around $6.5 billion in assets, according to ETFAction.com, but it has been seeing inflows.
The first quarter of 2026 saw heightened geopolitical risk, commodity price spikes, and turmoil in private credit markets. Stagflation risks are mounting as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz drives up oil, natural gas, and diesel prices.
Oil executives and analysts warn that the Strait of Hormuz needs to be reopened by mid-April or oil-supply disruptions will get significantly worse. Benchmark oil prices reflect some optimistic scenarios that could still come true, but the window for that to happen is closing.
The problem, as I see it, is that fragile markets have more to lose with each passing day. Markets on Friday began to accept the seriousness of an unfolding predicament not readily amenable to Trump and Fed puts.
Multiple scenarios are emerging for a macro-driven, volatile market where Trump's flip-flopping, oil shocks, and stagflation fears have made every asset class a hostage to geopolitical headlines. Commodities now dominate on-chain perpetual futures, with oil and silver surpassing major crypto tokens in trading volume as traditional finance migrates to 24/7 venues.
The S&P 500 stock index has lost around 7.2 percent of its value from its last record high, on January 27, to its close on Thursday. S&P 500 earnings per share grew 13.4 percent over the quarter, a much better result than the 7.1 percent consensus projection economists were making as the fourth quarter got underway.
The One Point BFG Wealth Partners CEO lists which market groups are most vulnerable.
Tech Backlash. The major indexes fell sharply Friday, closing out a fifth consecutive week of declines. Outside of the energy sector, there was little place to hide. Tech stocks continued to get hit hard, thanks to a combination of AI fears, regulatory worries, and supply-chain concerns, all as rising oil prices stoke inflation fears.
'Mad Money' host Jim Cramer looks back at this week's market action.
Geopolitical tensions and failed U.S.-Iran negotiations have driven extreme volatility in equities, commodities, and safe-haven assets. The S&P 500 remains below its 200-day moving average, signaling broad market weakness and a defensive investor shift from overvalued sectors.
Brent crude oil prices have risen back above $113 per barrel, driven by heightened uncertainty following President Trump's ten-day pause on strikes targeting Iran's energy infrastructure. Amos Haksef, Managing Partner at TWG Global and former senior adviser and deputy assistant under President Biden joins David Gura and Katie Griefeld on "The Close" to analyze the recent volatility in oil prices.
Jim Cramer says the market sell-off is driven by rising oil tied to the Iran war, with tech stocks taking a huge hit. His game plan highlights key earnings and economic data next week that could determine whether stocks stabilize or fall further.
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, says the recent surge in oil prices has triggered a price shock, leading to a corresponding decline in equity prices as future cash flows are discounted more heavily. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close.
The stresses in private lending are concentrated in just a few sectors and don't impact bank balance sheets, unlike during the financial crisis.
3Fourteen's Warren Pies joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk the impact of the global energy shock on oil prices, equity markets, and global supply.
The Nasdaq and the Dow Jones index are in correction territory. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Iran war could end in weeks.
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US stocks fell sharply on Friday, with all three major indexes closing at their lowest levels in more than six months, as escalating tensions in the Middle East and surging oil prices dampened investor sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 793.47 points, or 1.73%, to 45,166.64, entering correction territory on an intraday basis.
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Middle East uncertainty dominated the week, sending the Nasdaq into official correction territory (down >10%). The US dollar is eyeing its strongest monthly gain since July 2025.
A fifth-straight week in the negative for the S&P 500 matches the index's longest such streak since May 2022. The index has dropped 7.2% so far this month, its largest monthly decline since September 2022 (9.3%)
Newly listed Xanadu Quantum Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: XNDU) shares climbed on Thursday as investors cheered the company's debut on the Nasdaq.
Former Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss the Federal Reserve's current position, the central bank's dual mandate and much more.