Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 23, 2026. <\/p>\n
Brendan McDermid | Reuters<\/p>\n
U.S. equities fell on Tuesday after <\/strong>the major averages staged a comeback in the previous session amid renewed hopes that a resolution may be in sight for the U.S.-Iran conflict.<\/p>\n The S&P 500<\/a> was 0.5% lower, as was the Nasdaq Composite<\/a>. The Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> lost 340 points, or 0.7%.<\/p>\n The major averages all rose more than 1% after President Donald Trump<\/a> said in a Truth Social post<\/a> that the U.S. and Iran have held “very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.” Iranian state media reported that there were no direct talks between the two countries, however.<\/p>\n Stocks surged, with the Dow up more than 1,100 points on the day at one point. Oil prices also cooled, lending the market rally further support.<\/p>\n In the leadup to Trump’s announcement, the U.S. did engage with Iran in a series of closed-door discussions through Middle Eastern intermediaries, according to The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, which cited people familiar with the matter. That said, the report stated that there was some doubt expressed privately by Arab mediators at the prospect of the two countries quickly reaching an agreement, as both sides were still far apart.<\/p>\n Confusion has grown among investors over how effective the talks to end the war were, to be sure, as Israel and Iran have since continued to exchange strikes in the wake of the president’s Monday comments, per Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n Oil prices resumed their rally Tuesday, with global benchmark Brent crude futures<\/a> adding more than 3% to trade above $103 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate crude futures<\/a> jumped 4% to above $92 a barrel.<\/p>\n Despite Trump’s optimistic tone, Citi U.S. equity strategist Scott Chronert doesn’t believe that investors are out of the woods just yet.<\/p>\n “We still have a lot of wood to chop in terms of where oil prices end up shaking out; how those impact underlying economic conditions. So we think we’re okay for right now with this down 5% to 10% narrative, but we have to be on the lookout that the risks are still out there and are still pretty notable,” he said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime<\/a>” on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n The developments came after Trump over the weekend had threatened an attack<\/a> on Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz wasn’t reopened. Iran, in turn, said that it would target U.S. infrastructure as a retaliatory tactic.<\/p>\n Shares of Apollo<\/a> fell more than 3% on the heels of the firm revealing it will cap its private credit fund withdrawals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":678301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[284664,285370,269155,266351,285641,49678,127359,133,64,81,37911,26447,37912,77,69,91320,144,37924,250645,152483,259093,250818,83,64216,207579,135,91322,143,141578,141582,91321,145,134,16285,67,261697,259090,132,68,37914,108600],"class_list":{"0":"post-678426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-cl26k","9":"tag-es26m","10":"tag-lco26k","11":"tag-lco26q","12":"tag-nq26m","13":"tag-apollo-global-management-inc","14":"tag-ares-management-corp","15":"tag-breaking-news-markets","16":"tag-business","17":"tag-business-news","18":"tag-chevron-corp","19":"tag-citigroup-inc","20":"tag-conocophillips","21":"tag-donald-j-trump","22":"tag-donald-trump","23":"tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","24":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","25":"tag-exxon-mobil-corp","26":"tag-fidelity-nasdaq-composite-index-track","27":"tag-ice-brent-crude-oct25","28":"tag-invesco-db-oil-fund","29":"tag-invesco-qqq-trust","30":"tag-iran","31":"tag-lp","32":"tag-marathon-petroleum-corp","33":"tag-markets","34":"tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","35":"tag-nasdaq-composite","36":"tag-occidental-petroleum-equity-warrants-exp-3rd-august-2027","37":"tag-owl-rock-capital-corp","38":"tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","39":"tag-sp-500-index","40":"tag-stock-markets","41":"tag-suppress-zephr","42":"tag-united-states","43":"tag-united-states-brent-oil-fund","44":"tag-united-states-oil-fund","45":"tag-unitedstates","46":"tag-us","47":"tag-valero-energy-corp","48":"tag-wti-crude-sep25"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}