{"id":428913,"date":"2026-03-26T03:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/us-stocks-take-an-optimistic-view-on-the-war-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:40:18","slug":"us-stocks-take-an-optimistic-view-on-the-war-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/us-stocks-take-an-optimistic-view-on-the-war-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US stocks take an optimistic view on the war in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Iran spent the entire day sending various messages through the media that it won&#8217;t accept a ceasefire deal or negotiate with the US around its 15-point plan. However, we heard from Pakistani sources that they hadn&#8217;t officially rejected talks so that&#8217;s the next big headline we&#8217;re waiting for. Notably, Trump was completely silent on the war today but he&#8217;s scheduled to speak at a fundraiser at 7:30 pm ET, so we will see if that lasts.<\/p>\n<p>At the close:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S&amp;P 500 +0.55%<\/li>\n<li>Nasdaq Comp +0.8%<\/li>\n<li>Russell 2000 +1.2%<\/li>\n<li>DJIA +0.7%<\/li>\n<li>Toronto TSX Comp +1.4%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a look at the past couple days of consolidation. Today, we opened very strongly but gave it back quickly. The midday drop was on something of a false headline about a strike on Iran&#8217;s nuclear plant (it was yesterday) and we quickly rebounded from that and moved sideways. The market was impressively resilient to the Iran headlines, though I&#8217;m not sure I share the optimism.<\/p>\n<p>The top performers were chip stocks with AMD surging 7.5% and state-back Intel up 7.2%<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran spent the entire day sending various messages through the media that it won&#8217;t accept a ceasefire deal or negotiate with the US around its 15-point plan. However, we heard from Pakistani sources that they hadn&#8217;t officially rejected talks so that&#8217;s the next big headline we&#8217;re waiting for. Notably, Trump was completely silent on the [&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-428913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428913","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=428913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}