Other volatility-shaking catalysts for Stocks include the highly anticipated and feared Mag 7 earnings, with Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft reporting after the close.
Projections are for sustained record earnings, but investors will be particularly attentive to whether extremely elevated infrastructure spending is beginning to yield a return on investment.
The pressure point for Investors and Market sentiment overall is to see if AI really turns out to be as profitable as the Trillions invested require it to be.
We will get the answer for this throughout the years, but elevated volatility and expectations could still have an effect on present risk appetite. This is what happened in October 2025 and led to the gigantic AI/Tech crash.
Finally, the US-Iran impasse continues, and it seems that Iran is slowly feeling the pressure from the Strait of Hormuz blockade. While the strategy hurts the global economy, it is a decent counter-attack on what the Islamic regime was imposing on Gulf oil exporters.
This is why President Trump wasn’t opposed to maintaining the Ceasefire, and the Strategy should pressure negotiations promptly – the issue, however, is that Oil Markets are not so patient, and WTI Crude is now well back above the triple-digit mark, trading around $105!
Let’s dive into intraday charts and trading levels for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite, and S&P 500.
