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🔎 Market Highlights March 7, 2026
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A geopolitical flashpoint reshaped sector flows this week. Following U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, Tehran’s declaration of the Strait of Hormuz as effectively closed sent crude oil surging over 6%, triggering an immediate rotation out of Technology and Consumer Discretionary into Energy, Materials, and Defense.
Equity markets absorbed the shock unevenly. Tuesday’s session saw the S&P 500 shed nearly 1%, before a partial recovery mid-week supported by a stable Federal Reserve Beige Book and above-consensus ADP private payrolls of 63,000.
Friday’s official jobs report delivered a final blow: the U.S. shed 92,000 positions versus an expected gain of 60,000, extending weekly losses and sharpening rate-cut probability into the March Fed meeting.
Technology and Consumer Discretionary remained under distribution. Multiple compression accelerated persistent institutional selling in software and high-multiple growth names throughout the week.
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