Market Rallies After U.S. Postpones Strikes on Iran

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Oil dropped below $100 barrel on the news. Plus: Meta Platforms stock rises after Mark Zuckerberg says he’s building his own AI agent. Katherine Sullivan hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it.
0:05.0	Infliction is killing me!
0:08.0	But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits!
0:12.0	That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill!
0:15.0	See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.
0:18.0	This bill would cut the vital resources they need.
0:25.1	While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they?
0:29.1	Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores.
0:31.2	Paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition.
0:40.9	Here's your closing bell brief for Monday, March 23rd. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:48.3	U.S. stocks rallied today as geopolitical tensions appeared to ease. All three major indexes pushed higher during the session. The Dow and the NASDAQ each gained 1.4%. The S&P 500 finished up 1.2%. Every sector in the S&P 500 ended
0:59.4	the day in the green. Travel and consumer stocks led the broad market advance. Investors reacted
1:05.3	to news that the U.S. will postpone strikes on Iranian infrastructure. This shift also caused
1:10.5	oil prices to drop sharply.
1:12.7	Brent crude fell 11% to settle below $100 a barrel. Among individual companies, synopsis shares climbed
1:20.9	3%. This followed reports that an activist investor built a multi-billion dollar stake in the firm.
1:28.1	Super microcomputer shares rose over 5% today.
1:31.6	The move recovered some losses from last week after the U.S. charged a co-founder and
1:36.8	two other employees of the company in an alleged scheme to smuggle Nvidia chips to China.
1:42.3	Draft King's shares gained 1%.
1:44.3	Investors weighed news of a potential bill to ban certain prediction market competitors
1:48.9	like Calci and Polymarket from offering sports betting.
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