{"id":427733,"date":"2026-03-02T07:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/a-look-at-markets-as-the-opening-dust-settles\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:25:11","slug":"a-look-at-markets-as-the-opening-dust-settles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/a-look-at-markets-as-the-opening-dust-settles\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at markets as the opening dust settles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By now, everyone knows what&#8217;s happening as the US and Israel strike Iran. Here is the state of play one hour into futures trading:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WTI crude up $5.37 to $72.40 (about 8%)<\/li>\n<li>Gold up 2% to $5385<\/li>\n<li>The US dollar leads in FX, narrowly ahead of CHF<\/li>\n<li>AUD\/USD is the biggest mover, down 60 pips (or 0.82%) to 0.7054<\/li>\n<li>Nikkei 225 opens down 1.5%<\/li>\n<li>Bitcoin flat near $66K<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latest war headline: Israeli military says it continues to carry out large-scale strikes against targets across Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m somewhat surprised that USD\/JPY is up 65 pips to 156.68. It&#8217;s creeping up on last week&#8217;s high.<\/p>\n<p>I think many things are trading off oil and trying to figure out if that reverberates back into inflation or fades. There is certainly going to be something of a shock at the gasoline pumps in the next few days as it stands, but there is still +20 hours left in today&#8217;s oil trade.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, everyone knows what&#8217;s happening as the US and Israel strike Iran. Here is the state of play one hour into futures trading: WTI crude up $5.37 to $72.40 (about 8%)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}