What’s News in Markets: The War Trade, Megadeals and a Sneaker Slowdown
WSJ Your Money Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When the tax year ends on the 5th of April, valuable tax allowances may be lost simply because people left things too late. |
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| 0:28.5 | Tax rules apply. Hey listeners, your money briefing is on a break, but it will be back with more |
| 0:33.9 | personal finance information for you in the future. Until then, here's the news |
| 0:38.0 | moving markets this week. |
| 0:41.4 | Hey listeners, it's Saturday, April 4th. I'm Imani Mouise for the Wall Street Journal, and this |
| 0:47.1 | is what's news in markets. Our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove |
| 0:51.7 | them. Let's dive in. It was a short week for markets. |
| 0:55.0 | Major stock exchanges were closed for Good Friday. Stocks seesawed throughout the week as they |
| 0:59.9 | digested mixed signals about the conflict in Iran. In the end, all three major stock indexes |
| 1:05.5 | finished the week higher. The NASDAQ led the way, closing up 4.4% on Thursday. Both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial |
| 1:13.3 | average were also up about 3% for the week. Brent Crude, the international oil benchmark, |
| 1:19.0 | surged nearly 8% this week to finish at $109 a barrel, as hopes for a quick end to the Iran |
| 1:25.1 | conflict faded. But higher commodity prices didn't translate |
| 1:28.7 | to gains for oil stocks. Energy was the only sector in the S&P 500 to finish the week lower, |
| 1:34.8 | falling more than 5% as investors worried about long-term supply. Bond markets also closed |
| 1:40.3 | early this week, but not before the latest jobs report gave bond yield a small boost. |
| 1:45.1 | The 10-year Treasury recently traded at 4.35% up from 4.32% before the Friday report. |
| 1:52.6 | Stock futures move slightly lower after the report. |
| 2:06.6 | Turbulent markets are usually a deterrent for mergers and acquisitions, but 2026 is off to a historic start for dealmaking. Corporations announced 22 M&8 transactions worth $10 billion or |
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