Stocks Turn Higher on Cease-Fire Hopes

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The Wall Street Journal

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4.1 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Airlines stocks slide ahead of a turbulent earnings season. And shares of health-insurance companies rise after the Trump administration announces it’ll raise payments to Medicare insurers next year. Julie Chang 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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0:33.9	Here's your closing bell brief for Tuesday, April 7th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.5	U.S. stocks finished the day near flat as investors hoped for a seized fire with Iran.
0:46.0	The NASDAQ composite and S&P 500 gained about 0.1% today. Both indexes notched their fifth
0:53.6	straight session of gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished 0.1% today. Both indexes notched their fifth straight session of gains. The Dow Jones Industrial
0:56.2	average finished 0.2% lower. Sentiment improved after Pakistan's prime minister called on President
1:03.1	Trump for a deadline extension. U.S. oil futures prices, meanwhile, edged higher 0.5% after the U.S. struck military targets on
1:12.7	Carg Island, sparing oil infrastructure. Among individual companies, Delta Airlines' shares fell 1.7%
1:20.2	today. Investors are worried about surging jet fuel prices ahead of the company's Wednesday
1:25.2	earnings report. The carrier recently raised fees for
1:28.3	checked bags. Meanwhile, health insurance stocks rallied after a substantial rate increase from the
1:34.0	Trump administration. United Health Group shares surged over 9%. While Elevance Health was up 3%,
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