Closing Bell Overtime: Markets Search for a Bottom as Fed Pressure Builds and Energy Risks Mount 3/13/26
Closing Bell
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The bell is bringing an end to the trading day at the NYSC, LTAMD skincare, ringing the bell, and at the NASAC. |
| 0:08.2 | Freecast is doing the honors. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to closing bell overtime. |
| 0:11.1 | We are live from Studio B at the NASAC market site. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Melissa Lee along with Mike Santoli. |
| 0:15.2 | Another down day for stocks wrapping up a bad week and closing on new lows for the year. |
| 0:19.9 | Oil, once again, the focal point, as it nears $100 a barrel again, up roughly 50% in March |
| 0:25.7 | following the start of the war with Iran. |
| 0:28.1 | But we begin with major breaking news on the Fed. |
| 0:30.8 | As a judge, basically tossing out the case against Chair Powell and the Trump administration |
| 0:35.5 | responding just in the last little while. |
| 0:38.0 | Amon Javers has the latest from Washington. |
| 0:40.7 | Steve Leesman is looking at the impact on the Fed. |
| 0:43.0 | So, Amon, fill us in with the details. |
| 0:45.7 | Yeah, Mike, it's been an extraordinary afternoon. |
| 0:47.6 | What we saw here is a federal judge releasing an opinion in which he quashed the subpoenas |
| 0:52.2 | that were sent by the Department of Justice to the Federal Reserve, |
| 0:55.9 | the federal judge, saying that in essence he did not believe that the motivation for the subpoenas was a legitimate law enforcement one. |
| 1:04.3 | He's opened his opinion here, citing President Trump's social media posts against Jay Powell of the Fed saying Jerome, too late |
| 1:11.5 | Powell has done it again. |
| 1:12.7 | He is too late and actually too angry, too stupid and too political to have the job of Fed chair. |
| 1:18.5 | The judge here in this case, Judge Bostberg, suggesting that comments like that from the |
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