Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq waver, oil slides as Wall Street weighs Iran war signals

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  US banal marketplace wavers astatine the opening bell

  US stocks diverged connected Tuesday arsenic investors weighed President Trump's comments astir the Iran warfare nearing an extremity against remarks from Defense Secretary Hegseth that the astir aggravated barrage of strikes yet would hap connected Tuesday

  The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) and S&P 500 (^GSPC) mislaid astir 0.1% and 0.2%, respectively, successful the minutes aft the opening bell. Moving successful the different direction, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) picked up astir 0.1%.

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  Markets person soured connected imaginable deescalation aft reports that an lipid tanker has exploded adjacent Abu Dhabi. Oil prices fell precocious Monday aft Trump said the US violative successful Iran was "very complete, beauteous much," remaining successful the reddish by astir 6%.

  On the calendar, investors volition get the February Consumer Price Index connected Wednesday, followed by January’s Personal Consumption Expenditures scale connected Friday. Oracle (ORCL) is scheduled to study aft the marketplace adjacent connected Tuesday, portion Adobe (ADBE) is connected Thursday's docket.

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  BofA: Expecting a hawkish effect from the Fed to rising lipid prices 'could beryllium a mistake'

  Investors are misreading however the Federal Reserve is apt to respond to heightened lipid prices, Bank of America economist Aditya Bhave said successful a enactment published Tuesday morning.

  The Iran warfare has scrambled the Fed's complaint calculus, with astir observers suggesting that rising lipid prices volition propulsion the Fed to beryllium much hawkish. Rising vigor costs, if sustained, enactment upward unit connected header inflation. As ostentation rises, the reasoning goes, the Fed volition beryllium little apt to chopped rates, fearing that it would hazard overheating the economy.

  Instead, Bhave said, "supply shocks make risks to some sides of the Fed's dual mandate." Instead, Bhave wrote, "Context matters. Compared to 2022, the labour marketplace isn't arsenic hot, ostentation isn't arsenic high, and fiscal enactment isn't arsenic large."

  Bhave noted that since the struggle began, the output connected two-year Treasurys — often taken arsenic a work connected expectations for the Federal Reserve’s argumentation complaint implicit astir the adjacent 2 years — has mostly tracked lipid prices.

  "This could beryllium a mistake," Bhave wrote, arguing that a proviso daze "fattens the tails" of argumentation organisation and puts larger risks connected some hikes and cuts.

  "When Russia invaded Ukraine, the u-rate was beneath 4%, halfway PCE ostentation was implicit 5%, payrolls were moving astatine 500k/month and consumers were flush with Covid stimulus cash," Bhave said. "By contrast, we present person a brushed labour market, moderately elevated ostentation and much humble fiscal support. This sets america up for a much dovish Fed effect if the lipid daze is persistent."

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  Exxon CEO connected the lipid manufacture to Yahoo Finance

  Exxon (XOM) CEO Darren Woods to maine (by phone)_ connected the existent concern successful the lipid industry:

  "Obviously, the Middle East is simply a concentrated root of proviso done the Strait of Hormuz, a constrictive transition that overmuch of the satellite proviso has to question through, and we're seeing that play retired present successful existent time. From a institution standpoint, obviously, we're precise focused connected making definite that the radical that we person implicit determination operating the JVs [joint ventures] successful the antithetic countries person been safely evacuated, and making definite that remains the lawsuit that our radical are safe. And past I deliberation much broadly, conscionable with our operations astir the world, everyone volition beryllium impacted. The markets are global. Prices are connected. Through that planetary marketplace, we're making definite that we're doing the enactment and person a diversified acceptable of proviso sources truthful that we tin support our operations up and moving and proceed to conscionable the request of fundamentally each the communities that we run in."

• BioNTech banal plunges arsenic founders volition permission to commencement caller mRNA company

  BioNTech (BNTX) said connected Tuesday that its 2 founders, Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci, are leaving the institution astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth to commencement a caller mRNA-focused biotech company.

  Shares of BioNTech plunged 18% connected the news, alongside a bigger-than-expected nonaccomplishment per stock for 2025.

  The yet unnamed institution is Sahin and Türeci's 3rd business. BioNTech said it volition lend immoderate rights to its messenger RNA exertion to the caller institution successful speech for a number stake.

  Bloomberg reports:

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• Global banal indexes rebound arsenic crude lipid prices retreat

  Global equity indexes rebounded connected Tuesday arsenic crude lipid prices fell amid hopes of deescalation successful the Middle East aft President Trump suggested the warfare with Iran could extremity soon.

  In Europe, London’s benchmark scale (^FTSE) roseate 1.2%, Germany's DAX (DAX) gained 1.8%, the CAC (^FCHI) successful Paris added 1.1%, portion the pan-European STOXX 600 (^STOXX) climbed 1.4%.

  Gains picked up successful Asia arsenic well. Korea's KOSPI scale (^KS11) jumped 5%, portion Japan's Nikkei 225 (^N225) gained 2.8% and the Hang Seng (^HSI) scale successful China roseate 2.1%.

  However, US banal futures were much subdued successful aboriginal greeting trading. Futures connected the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F), S&P 500 (ES=F), and the Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) turned reddish astir an hr earlier the US markets open.

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  Oil remains successful the reddish arsenic Aramco CEO calls Iran warfare 'the biggest situation the region’s lipid and state manufacture has faced'

  Oil prices remained successful the reddish done aboriginal Tuesday greeting aft comments from President Trump connected Monday evening suggesting that the warfare could soon travel to an end.

  Futures connected planetary benchmark Brent (BZ=F) and US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude (CL=F) traded astatine astir $87.90 per tube and $89 per barrel, respectively, aft the 2 products opened supra $100 Sunday evening and popped to astir $119, each.

  In comments to CBS News, Trump said that helium believes the warfare is "very complete, beauteous much" and that the US is “very far” up of his estimated timeline. That said, successful comments to House Republicans astatine a property league Monday evening, the president said the US hasn't "won enough" and that helium "will not let a violent authorities to clasp the satellite hostage and effort to halt the globe's lipid supply."

  The president's mixed comments underscored a conundrum for markets: Trump is signaling a adjacent extremity to conflict, but his rhetoric unsocial won't reopen the captious Strait of Hormuz, which remains fundamentally closed (though information shows precise tiny amounts of crossings whitethorn person resumed).

  Underscoring the precarity of the situation, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said successful comments connected the company's net telephone this greeting that the Iran warfare is "the biggest situation the region’s lipid and state manufacture has faced." If the Strait is not reopened soon, helium said, the consequences volition beryllium "catastrophic" for the planetary economy.

• Trump hints astatine aboriginal extremity to Iran warfare easiness oil-shock concerns

  Iran's effectual blockade connected lipid shipping done the captious Strait of Hormuz is nether the microscope aft President Trump said the US and Israel were making important advancement successful their warfare connected Iran and could extremity the struggle “very soon,” curtailing an oil-price surge.

  From Bloomberg:

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• Premarket trending tickers: Strategy, Oracle, and Vertex

  Strategy (MSTR) stock roseate 3% earlier the doorbell connected Tuesday, pursuing a determination successful bitcoin (BTC-USD). The world's largest cryptocurrency jumped 4% contiguous connected quality that the struggle betwixt US-Israeli forces and Iran had eased. Strategy is 1 of the largest firm holders of bitcoin.

  Oracle (ORCL) stock roseate 2% during premarket hours connected Tuesday. The institution volition merchandise its 4th fourth net aft the doorbell contiguous amid quality that it has stopped plans to grow an AI information halfway with OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), and volition besides chopped thousands of jobs.

  Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) stock roseate 4% earlier the doorbell contiguous aft announcing that 1 its drugs, which treats a uncommon kidney disease, has met its cardinal nonsubjective successful a late-stage trial.

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise posts Q2 gross bushed connected increasing AI request

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) bushed Wall Street's 2nd 4th gross estimates erstwhile it reported net connected Monday afternoon, citing the AI infrastructure roar driving request for the company's servers.

  The tech pioneer besides raised its fiscal ‌2026 adjusted net per stock forecast to $2.30-$2.50, higher than the expected $2.25-$2.45.

  "Demand for our products and solutions was strong, ⁠with orders expanding treble digits twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth crossed each segments," CEO Antonio Neri said.

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise banal roseate astir 3% successful premarket trading connected Tuesday.

  Reuters reports:

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  Of enactment from Saudi Aramco net call

  Two call-outs from Saudi Aramco (2222.SR) net retired this morning.

  One is from the Jefferies probe team, noting this from the apical lipid exporter's management: "All areas harmless & operating normally, with Ras Tanura starting up pursuing precautionary shutdown aft drone interception."

  And this 1 from CEO Amin Nasser caught my attraction connected the net call. He was asked astir however rapidly the institution could ramp up lipid shipments erstwhile the Strait of Hormuz gets backmost to immoderate signifier of normal:

  "We tin ramp up successful days and not weeks, for sure."

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  Good lipid illustration from Goldman

  A caller illustration this greeting from Goldman Sachs caught my attraction with lipid prices (CL=F, BZ=F) continuing to slide. It appears determination is immoderate lipid making it done the Strait of Hormuz.

• Oil drops aft historical spike arsenic Trump points to extremity of Iran war

  Bloomberg reports:

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• Gold holds arsenic Trump comments connected the extremity of US-Israeli warfare against Iran settles markets

  Bloomberg reports:

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