Oil Climbs, Stocks Fall on Fresh U.S.-Iran Tensions
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. |
| 0:05.0 | It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. |
| 0:11.3 | That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI. |
| 0:17.9 | Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries. |
| 0:27.5 | Here's your closing bell brief for Monday, April 20th. I'm Pierre Bienname for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:33.3 | The latest tensions between the U.S. and Iran have unwound some of the optimism that swept through markets last week. |
| 0:39.8 | American negotiators are expected to arrive in Pakistan for talks with Iran this week, though Tehran has cast doubt on its participation. |
| 0:47.3 | Stocks slipped with the S&P 500 down 0.2 percent and the Dow industrials roughly flat. |
| 0:52.4 | The NASDAQ composite was down 0.3%, breaking a 13-session winning streak, its longest since 1992. |
| 0:59.8 | Brent Crude Futures rose 5.6% to around $95.48 a barrel. |
| 1:04.7 | The move was relatively small compared with the wild swings seen earlier during the war. |
| 1:10.3 | Among individual companies, AST Space Mobile shares tumbled more than 5%. |
| 1:15.0 | A satellite that Jeff Bezos's blue origin was carrying for the company |
| 1:18.6 | was incorrectly deployed yesterday and ended up in the wrong location in space. |
| 1:23.8 | Marvell technology shares jumped nearly 6%. |
| 1:26.4 | The chipmaker is in talks with Google to build new |
| 1:29.2 | artificial intelligence chips with inference. The workplace software company at Lassian's shares rose |
| 1:35.0 | nearly 7%. The company led the NASDAQ 100 at midday, bouncing back after recent worries about |
| 1:40.9 | competition from new artificial intelligence tools. |
| 1:47.4 | And Eli Lilly's shares fell three quarters of a percent. |
| 1:53.4 | The drugmaker struck a deal to acquire Colonia Therapeutics for $3.25 billion, the companies said today. |
| 1:54.6 | Colonia, which is privately held, is developing a next generation treatment for the blood cancer |
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