{"id":300385,"date":"2026-02-20T04:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300385\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:20:06","slug":"stock-market-today-dow-sp-live-updates-for-february-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300385\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Market Today: Dow, S&#038;P Live Updates for February 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Asian equities fell and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-02-18\/latest-oil-market-news-and-analysis-for-feb-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">oil<\/a> rose to its highest level since August as escalating tensions in Iran weighed on sentiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The MSCI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/MXAP:Ind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Asia Pacific<\/a> Index dropped 0.5% \u2014 its first retreat in three days. Markets reopened lower in Hong Kong after the Lunar New Year holidays, while mainland China remained shut. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/KOSPI:Ind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">South Korean<\/a> shares bucked the broader weakness, rising 1.7% to extend their lead as the world\u2019s best-performing market this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asian equities fell and oil rose to its highest level since August as escalating tensions in Iran weighed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[337,3473,1580,1581,42,3448,932,87,190,47,2899,43,5268,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-300385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-asia","tag-august","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-headlines","tag-hong-kong","tag-inflation","tag-iran","tag-markets","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-news","tag-stocks","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}