{"id":21926,"date":"2026-08-26T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/august-26-market-recap\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:21:36","slug":"august-26-market-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/august-26-market-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"August 26 Market Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, as investors weighed Washington\u2019s expanded sanctions against Iran and new measures taken to ease pressure on long-term Treasury yields, the U.S. Dollar Index initially rose before falling. It briefly returned above the 99 mark during the session but subsequently gave up all its gains and turned lower, ultimately closing down 0.09% at 98.90;The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed down 6.9 basis points at 4.633%, while the 2-year U.S. Treasury yield, which is sensitive to the Fed\u2019s policy rate, closed down 6.1 basis points at 4.183%. <br\/>Spot gold briefly approached the $4,700 mark in early trading but failed to break through it; it subsequently pulled back and traded in a narrow range, ultimately closing up 0.15% at $4,658.60 per ounce;Spot silver ultimately closed down 0.42% at $68.66 per ounce. <br\/>Crude oil prices plummeted as traders shrugged off the latest U.S. sanctions against Iran and reports emerged that parties might return to mediation efforts to end the war.WTI crude oil continued to decline throughout the day, briefly falling below the $80 mark during the session, and ultimately closed down 4.57% at $80.68 per barrel; Brent crude oil closed down 5.02% at $85.86 per barrel. <br\/>All three major U.S. stock indexes rose,with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.3%, the S&amp;P 500 up 0.32%, and the Nasdaq up 0.66%. SK Hynix (SKHY.O) and Micron Technology (MU.O) rose more than 2%, while NVIDIA (NVDA.O) gained 2.1%,while AMD (AMD.O) rose nearly 5%. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index closed up 1.1%, and Alibaba (BABA.N) rose 0.8%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, as investors weighed Washington\u2019s expanded sanctions against Iran and new measures taken to ease pressure on long-term Treasury yields, the U.S. Dollar Index initially rose before falling. It briefly returned above the 99 mark during the session but subsequently gave up all its gains and turned lower, ultimately closing down 0.09% at 98.90;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21926","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\/21926","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=21926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21927,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926\/revisions\/21927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}