How oil, gold, and stock markets reacted in the month after previous global shocks
Yahoo Finance·2026-03-03 16:40

The US and Israeli attacks on Iran that commenced over the weekend shocked global markets and led to jarring price moves in the S&P 500 (GSPC), oil, and gold. President Trump, meanwhile, pledged that the war could last for four to five weeks — or even "be fought ‘forever’" with existing munitions stockpiles, suggesting that the volatility is likely to continue. Indeed, Tuesday brought a steep stock sell-off amid new strikes that increased fears of a drawn-out war. But a Yahoo Finance analysis of these ...