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Mon, April 13, 2026 astatine 9:26 AM CDT 1 min read
US stocks were mixed connected Monday aft President Trump ordered a US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz pursuing the illness of US-Iran negotiations.
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Trump's determination to artifact each maritime postulation done the Strait of Hormuz escalated already precocious tensions successful the Middle East. That has piled connected adjacent much hazard for markets whose hopes for a cessation successful hostilities were dented by the breakdown successful negotiations successful Islamabad.
"Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest successful the World, volition statesman the process of BLOCKADING immoderate and each Ships trying to enter, oregon leave, the Strait of Hormuz," Trump wrote connected Truth Social. The blockade was scheduled to commencement astatine 10 a.m. ET connected Monday.
Iran responded by vowing to people each Persian Gulf ports if its ain vigor hubs are threatened, calling the US determination "an enactment of piracy."
Oil prices jumped backmost supra $100 connected the menace to planetary vigor flows, with the planetary benchmark Brent crude (BZ=F) rising 5% to astir $100a barrel, portion the US counterpart, West Texas Intermediate futures for May transportation (CL=F) roseate astir 5% to apical $101 per barrel.
Closer to home, Goldman Sachs (GS) kicked disconnected slope net with beardown profits, though shares fell alongside broader banal losses. First 4th results from Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Citigroup (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), and Morgan Stanley (MS) volition travel arsenic the week progresses.
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Stocks autumn astatine the unfastened arsenic lipid climbs connected menace of US Hormuz blockade
Oil prices roseate connected Monday aft US-Iran talks fell through, putting unit connected stocks to commencement the trading week.
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell 0.3%, portion the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) slid 0.7% successful the archetypal minutes of trading.
Oil was backmost supra $100 per barrel, with Brent (BZ=F) trading astatine $101 per tube and West Texas Intermediate (CL=F) trading astatine $103 per barrel.
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Goldman Sachs (GS) shares fell much than 3% contempt reporting a nett summation driven by equity trading successful the archetypal quarter. The net telephone with CEO David Solomon conscionable started — you tin perceive to it unrecorded here.
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Treasurys sold disconnected connected Monday arsenic President Trump's menace to artifact the Strait of Hormuz and caller user terms information released connected Friday revived higher ostentation expectations.
As lipid prices surged connected Monday, the 10-year output (^TNX) climbed 3 ground points to 4.34%, portion the longer-dated 30-year output (^TYX) roseate 2 ground points to 4.93%. Bond yields commercialized inversely to enslaved prices, meaning prices were little connected Monday.
The US dollar scale (DX-Y.NYB) besides climbed to astir 99 arsenic higher lipid prices supported the conception that the Fed would clasp oregon rise involvement rates.
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But the banal dropped 3% successful premarket trading arsenic intermediation gross for fixed income, currencies, and commodities fell abbreviated of expectations.
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Oil prices pump aft Trump announces Hormuz blockade
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