{"id":20561,"date":"2026-08-04T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/august-4-market-recap\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:18:32","slug":"august-4-market-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/august-4-market-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"August 4 Market Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, there were renewed signs of easing tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Meanwhile, after the U.S. and Japan pledged to continue joint intervention to support the yen, investors are closely watching for signs of further intervention. <br\/>The U.S. Dollar Index ended its four-day losing streak, briefly returning to the 100 mark, and ultimately closed up 0.23% at 99.96; the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed at 4.681%; and the 2-year U.S. Treasury yield, which is sensitive to the Fed\u2019s policy rate, closed at 4.246%. <br\/>Spot gold opened higher with a gap but gave up its gains, briefly falling below the $4,020 mark during the session before rallying again in late trading; it ultimately closed up 0.31% at $4,055.25 per ounce;Spot silver broke above the $58 mark and ultimately closed up 0.93% at $58.19 per ounce. <br\/>As the geopolitical risk premium rapidly subsided, international oil prices plummeted. WTI crude opened down more than 8%, then fluctuated within a narrow range before closing down 7.42% at $78.72 per barrel; Brent crude closed down 5.92% at $83.07 per barrel. <br\/>All three major U.S. stock indices closed higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 1.3% to a new closing high; the S&amp;P 500 gained 1.48%, and the Nasdaq rose 2.1%.Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Google (GOOG.O) rose nearly 5%, while Tesla (TSLA.O) and Nvidia (NVDA.O) gained around 3%, and Meta (META.O) rose 6%.SanDisk (SNDK.O) rose 6%, while SK Hynix (SKHY.O) fell 0.7%. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index closed up 0.75%, with Alibaba (BABA.N) rising 4%. Amazon (AMZN.O) surpassed a market capitalization of $3 trillion for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, there were renewed signs of easing tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Meanwhile, after the U.S. and Japan pledged to continue joint intervention to support the yen, investors are closely watching for signs of further intervention. The U.S. Dollar Index ended its four-day losing streak, briefly returning to the 100 mark, and ultimately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20561","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\/20561","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=20561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20562,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20561\/revisions\/20562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}