Wall St ends higher as investors parse US-Iran negotiations, threats

Wall St ends higher as investors parse US-Iran negotiations, threats

By Stephen Culp and Purvi Agarwal

Mon April 6, 2026

 

Mixed messages continue to haunt the markets as investors try to balance peace talks vs Trump’s increasingly heated war rhetoric. But Wall Street continues to lean towards putting more weight on the peace talks. With that, the indexes were quite predictably bumpy again but ended on a positive note with both the Dow and Nasdaq closing with 3-digit gains. The jobs report released on Good Friday showed stellar gains, triple the forecast, but this was tempered by a sharp upward revision of February job losses with over 40,000 additional jobs gone.  

Another inflation metric today showed the highest price increases in 3-1/2 years and the services sector growing less than expected. The S&P is on its fourth consecutive day of gains and its YTD losses have been pared from 10% earlier in the war to 3.9% today. As today’s expert put it, “The day-to-day volatility and headlines can be rather nauseating but there’s a sense of optimism in the air” that a good Q1 performance could justify that we’re indeed still in a bull market. At 14.78 billion, volume was way below the 19.51 average, likely due to both fence-sitting and the fact that many traders are still on spring break. 

DJ: 46,504.67  -61.07         NAS: 21,879.18  +38.23        S&P: 6,582.69  +7.37               4/2

DJ: 46,669.88  +165.21      NAS: 21,996.34  +117.16      S&P: 6,611.83  +29.14             4/6

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