reclaimed the 50,000 level<\/a>. Investors seem to be doing a bit of profit-taking and long covering \u2014 trader-speak for locking in gains after a strong rally instead of assuming stocks only travel upward forever. Revolutionary concept, honestly. <\/p>\n\ud83d\udee2\ufe0f Oil Jumps as War Fears Return<\/p>\n
Oil prices climbed sharply after fresh warnings from Donald Trump raised concerns about escalating tensions with Iran and possible disruptions to global energy supplies. West Texas Intermediate crude rose nearly 2% above $107 a barrel, while Brent crude topped $110. Energy traders are once again pricing in the possibility that the Strait of Hormuz becomes an even bigger problem. In a Truth Social post, Trump warned Iran that \u201cthe Clock is Ticking\u201d and said there \u201cwon\u2019t be anything left\u201d if action was not taken soon. Markets generally prefer diplomacy over mysterious all-caps countdowns. <\/p>\n
\ud83e\udd16 Nvidia and Retail Earnings Loom<\/p>\n
Investors are also gearing up for a major earnings week headlined by Nvidia on Wednesday. The AI chip giant has effectively become the market\u2019s emotional support stock at this point. Target reports alongside Nvidia, while Walmart follows Thursday. Retail results could offer clues about how consumers are handling inflation and higher energy costs. Elsewhere, Bitcoin slipped below $77,000 after trading above $82,000 last week, showing that risk appetite cooled not just in stocks, but across speculative assets more broadly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key points: Stock futures take a dive Nvidia earnings loom Trump\u2019s warnings Gotta take stock of all the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-649939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}