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WSJ Your Money Briefing

What’s News in Markets: Oil Prices Surge, Bond Selloff, and Iran Fallout

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What do rising oil prices mean for the stock market? And why did foreign stocks fall so sharply this week? Plus, how did the war in the Middle East scramble the 60-40 portfolio? Host Hannah Erin Lang discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. That's Jason Gersatus,

0:12.6

CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of Agenic AI. Join him later to

0:19.0

learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.

0:23.2

Hey listeners, your money briefing is on a break, but it will be back with more personal

0:27.3

finance information for you in the future. Until then, here's the news moving markets this week.

0:35.3

Hey listeners, it's Saturday, March 7th.

0:37.9

I'm Hannah Aaron Lang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:40.5

And this is What's News and Markets, our look at the biggest moves of the week and the news that drove them.

0:46.9

So let's get into it.

0:48.7

This was a really rough week for markets.

0:51.3

Stocks declined this week, and they are now very solidly in the red this year.

0:56.0

Investors have a lot of negative headlines to contend with.

0:59.0

Of course, the biggest story is war in the Middle East.

1:02.0

A widening conflict that began when the United States attacked Iran this past Saturday

1:06.0

is threatening to send shockwaves across the global economy.

1:10.0

That would be a lot for Wall Street to digest on its own.

1:12.6

But let's not forget that markets didn't exactly start this past week on the strongest footing.

1:17.6

We've still had these lingering concerns about artificial intelligence.

1:21.6

Investors spent a lot of last month worrying that AI could erase jobs or upend entire industries in ways we might not be prepared

1:29.4

for. And to top it all off, Friday's job support was a lot worse than expected. The U.S.

1:35.3

economy lost 92,000 jobs. One big fear among investors is that we could see stagflation take shape.

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