{"id":20549,"date":"2026-08-03T10:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/august-3-market-recap\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:49:36","slug":"august-3-market-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/august-3-market-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"August 3 Market Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Friday, Japan and the U.S. reportedly took coordinated action to curb the yen\u2019s depreciation, causing the U.S. Dollar Index to reverse course in an inverted V-shape. It fell for the fourth consecutive trading day, ultimately closing down 0.2% at 99.7;The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed at 4.74%, having surged more than 30 basis points in July\u2014the largest gain for that period since 2005; the 2-year U.S. Treasury yield, which is sensitive to the Fed\u2019s policy rate, closed at 4.304%. <br\/>Spot gold fluctuated lower, approaching the $4,020 mark during the session, and ultimately closed down 1.48% at $4,042.67 per ounce, but recorded its first monthly gain since the outbreak of the Iran conflict in February;Spot silver briefly approached the $57 mark but ultimately closed down 2.29% at $57.66 per ounce. <br\/>International oil prices rebounded after Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard announced it had struck and seized two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz that had violated the ban.WTI crude resumed its upward trend, ultimately closing up 2.88% at $85.03 per barrel; Brent crude retreated after touching the $89 mark during the session, ultimately closing up 1.63% at $89.29 per barrel. <br\/>All three major U.S. stock indices closed higher: the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.53%, the S&amp;P 500 gained 0.7%, and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 1%.Tech and chip-related stocks saw mixed performance: Amazon (AMZN.O) closed up 15.32%, Google (GOOG.O) rose 6.73%, Nvidia (NVDA.O) gained 2.93%, Meta Platforms (META.O) rose 3.28%,Microsoft (MSFT.O) rose 3.02%. Apple (AAPL.O) fell 7.35%, and SpaceX (SPCX.O) fell 3.41%. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index rose 1.48%, with Alibaba (BABA.N) up 5.12%,Baidu (BIDU.O) rose 3.38%. Last month, the S&amp;P 500 fell about 0.13%, the Nasdaq fell 3.2%, and the Dow rose 0.32%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Japan and the U.S. reportedly took coordinated action to curb the yen\u2019s depreciation, causing the U.S. Dollar Index to reverse course in an inverted V-shape. It fell for the fourth consecutive trading day, ultimately closing down 0.2% at 99.7;The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed at 4.74%, having surged more than 30 basis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trading-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20550,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549\/revisions\/20550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}