Wall Street advances as investors bet on Mideast de-escalation

Wall Street advances as investors bet on Mideast de-escalation

By Sinéad Carew and Purvi Agarwal

Wed March 25, 2026

At last, some good news from Iranian officials who, though still refusing to enter into any talks, did acknowledge receipt of the 15-point proposal and confirmed that they were “under consideration.” This sparked some real optimism that there would be further negotiations and any hint that the war may be on its way to resolution shot all three indexes straight up right out the gate.  

And they stayed there. The new optimism also brought the price of oil down a bit, closing down at more than 2% and this stimulated equities again and even gave a modest boost to the tech sectors. There does remain great uncertainty though, reflected in today’s volume at 17.07 billion, well below the 20.69 average. 

DJ: 46,124.06  -84.41          NAS: 21,761.89  -184.86        S&P: 6,556.37  -24.63           3/24

DJ: 46,429.49  +305.43       NAS: 21,929.83  +167.93       S&P: 6,591.90  +35.53           3/25

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