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US stocks posted a weekly gain for the first time since the Iran war began. Weekly market recap, trading week 14/2026
Summary of the trading week using the most popular posts from the X platform
Global Markets Investor
April 05, 2026
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GLOBAL MARKETS INVESTOR’S PORTFOLIO IS 🔥UP +93%🔥 SINCE JANUARY 2024
DURING THE MARCH-APRIL 2025 MARKET TURMOIL, MAJOR US INDEXES FELL NEARLY 20%, WHILE THE GMI PORTFOLIO GAINED OVER 5%, FIND OUT HOW BELOW:
In this series, you can find financial markets posts with the highest number of interactions from my X platform feed over the most recent week. I am aware that not everybody uses X regularly, so I thought it could provide some value to your analysis and investment process. These posts are surrounded by extra charts, commentary, and explanations of complicated topics.
US stocks posted their first positive week since the Iran War began after the 5 weeks of consecutive losses, the longest streak since the 2022 bear market.
Interestingly, the S&P 500 snapped a streak of 9 consecutive red Thursdays.
This comes despite oil prices closing at their highest level since 2022.
The market rebound was fueled by some unwinding of short bets and by headlines that Iran and Oman are reportedly working on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Tehran is drafting a protocol with Oman to monitor and coordinate shipping traffic through the Strait, according to state-run IRNA.
Gharibabadi said the protocol would "facilitate and ensure safe passage" for vessels, adding that the requirements "will not mean restrictions."
However, the protocol would not take effect until the war is over.
Here’s a great chart by ZeroHedge showing how volatile stocks were during the week.
Notably, gold and silver also recovered some losses, while US Treasury yields declined.
In case you missed it, other posts from this week are listed below.
1) Weekly performance. In the first post attached, you can see last week’s performance of the major US indexes, the VIX volatility index, 10-year Treasury yield, the US Dollar, gold, silver, WTI Crude oil, and Bitcoin.
- S&P 500 +3.0%
- Nasdaq +4.4%
- Russell 2000 (small caps) +3.3%
- Dow Jones +3.0%
- US 10-year Treasury yield -5 basis points
- Bank Index +5.2%
- VIX -23%, front-month contract VIX futures -13%
- US Dollar index +0.0%
- Gold +3.7%
- Silver +4.8%
- WTI Crude Oil +11.9%
- Bitcoin +0.8%
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For the trading week ending April 10, key events are:
- US ISM Services PMI for March on Monday
- US Durable Goods Orders for February on Tuesday
- FOMC Minutes on Wednesday
- US Q4 2025 GDP Growth on Thursday
- US PCE Inflation for February on Friday
- US CPI Inflation for March on Friday
- US Consumer Sentiment for April on Friday
US Inflation data will be in focus next week.
2) The price of physical oil has surged to the highest level since the Great Financial Crisis. Diesel shortages are becoming severe in Asia.
3) Two of the world's most critical shipping chokepoints are now under threat simultaneously.
4) Hedge funds, institutional, and retail investors are selling. Meanwhile, systematic selling of global equities may be reaching its limit.
5) Some additional posts covering interesting economic and financial market data on the US private credit industry, US consumer sentiment, gold, Japanese stocks, AI race between OpenAi and Anthropic.
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