{"id":18307,"date":"2026-07-02T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/july-2-market-recap\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:15:49","slug":"july-2-market-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/july-2-market-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2 Market Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Wash said that inflation expectations and inflation risks had eased somewhat in recent weeks.The U.S. Dollar Index rose but then pared its gains, ultimately closing up 0.25% at 101.39; the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed at 4.458%, while the 2-year U.S. Treasury yield, which is sensitive to the Fed\u2019s policy rate, closed at 4.183%. <br\/>As U.S. ADP employment data came in below expectations and Wash\u2019s remarks that inflation is easing pushed U.S. Treasury yields lower, spot gold closed up 0.59% at $4,031.29 per ounce;Spot silver ultimately closed up 0.92% at $59.11 per ounce. <br\/>Trump said talks in Qatar were progressing smoothly, and optimism surrounding U.S.-Iran negotiations eased market concerns about crude oil supply.WTI crude ultimately closed down 2.68% at $68.03 per barrel; Brent crude closed down 3.05% at $71.16 per barrel. <br\/>U.S. stocks closed with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.02%, the S&amp;P 500 down 0.2%, and the Nasdaq down 0.66%.NVIDIA (NVDA.O) fell 1%, Micron Technology (MU.O) fell 10.5%, SanDisk (SNDK.O) fell 10.6%, AMD (AMD.O) fell 6.8%, and Meta (META.O) rose 8.8%.The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index surged 2.9%, and Alibaba (BABA.N) rose 2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Wash said that inflation expectations and inflation risks had eased somewhat in recent weeks.The U.S. Dollar Index rose but then pared its gains, ultimately closing up 0.25% at 101.39; the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed at 4.458%, while the 2-year U.S. Treasury yield, which is sensitive to the Fed\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trading-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18308,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307\/revisions\/18308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}