00:07all right wild ride for the futures ahead of monday's open futures were actually lower here
00:14in the early morning prior to the trump truth social post about delayed escalation of the
00:19conflict with iran currently s p futures sitting positive by 1.24 percent dow is up by 1.34 percent
00:28and the nasdaq up by 1.25 percent again this is all in flux and likely to move quite a
00:35bit
00:36throughout the course of the day here today now let's take a look at some cues from last session
00:42then we'll dive into what's going on here today energy and financial stocks bucked the overall
00:48market trend closing the session higher while utilities real estate and information technology
00:54stocks recorded the biggest losses on friday president trump had issued a 48 hour ultimatum
01:02for iran to reopen the strait of hormuz warning that the u.s would obliterate the iranian power plants if
01:09they fail to comply by 7 44 p.m eastern time today monday march 23rd highlighting this ultimatum ed
01:17yarghini said so apocalypse now might or might not happen at 7 44 eastern on monday now between the
01:26time when this story was written and right now when we are on here together there has been another post
01:32by trump uh via his truth social account and he is saying that i am pleased to report that the
01:37united
01:37states of america and the country of iran have over the last two days very good and productive
01:43conversations regarding complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the middle east
01:48based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth detailed and constructive conversations which
01:54will continue throughout the week i have instructed the department of war to postpone any and all
02:00military strikes against the iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period
02:05subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions so again everything moving around here
02:12uh quite a bit we also by the way uh have the and i'll just show you the tweet here
02:19the iranian media
02:20has already said that there was no direct or indirect contact with trump and his claim and claims he
02:27withdrew after threatening to attack the east asia facilities so uh we are just at the beginning of this
02:34the news is absolutely still in flux right now so that kind of leads us to that leads us to
02:40what the
02:41market is doing here that leads us to the big changes that we're seeing in bitcoin uh the s p
02:45and
02:46everything else um but as outlined there by the post there's a number of things going on here
02:52and it is going to continue to remain volatile we'll dive into that a little bit more this is where
02:57we
02:58stand about 22 minutes prior to the open or excuse me an hour and 22 minutes prior to the open
03:03here
03:04despite this ultimatum tensions escalated further on monday as iran threatened to target u.s and allied
03:10energy and it infrastructure meanwhile the 10-year treasury bond was yielding 4.41 percent that was
03:18prior to the truth social tweet so that is drastically different now as well the two-year bond was at
03:23397
03:24both of those have come in substantially again we'll see where they end up settling here the cme group's
03:29fed watch tool projections are now show that the market is pricing in an 85.5 percent likelihood
03:34that the federal reserve leaves current interest rates unchanged in its april meeting it's still very
03:40early since the last meeting that started at 92 percent went to 85 percent too early to draw any more
03:47long-term conclusions given what with everything else that's going on right now now we do have several
03:53stocks in focus here for you today that i want to cover before we dive into some of the ever
03:57-changing
03:58news the first one here is going to be united airlines holdings and the ticker on this one is
04:04ual ual fell 1.95 percent in the pre-market on monday after it announced plans to reduce
04:11scheduled capacity by about five percent in the second and third quarters that stock down a little
04:17bit in the pre-market the next stock on our list is going to be st microelectronics the ticker on
04:24this
04:24one is stm it declined 2.59 percent even as it announced the start of volume production as first
04:32deliveries of the stm 32 microcontrollers fully manufactured in china through a localized china
04:39for china supply chain the next stock in our list is a show favorite this is nebius group and the
04:46ticker
04:46on this one is nbis it dropped 3.32 percent as the ai infrastructure company announced the closing of
04:54a private offering of convertible senior notes totaling approximately 4.3 billion in gross proceeds
05:00to fund data center expansion and gpu procurement the next stock on our list is catalir as the ticker is
05:09cdlr and it slid 2.51 despite its service platform nexra securing a firm contract for 2026 operations and a
05:19maintenance campaign at two offshore wind farms in taiwan using the vessel windmaker the last stock on
05:27our list is going to be ssr mining and newmont corporation the ticker on this is ssrm which slipped
05:346.22 percent and newmont mining ticker nem which plunged 6.12 percent along with other gold miners
05:43and producers as the spot price for the precious metals descended into a bear market got more news on
05:51that for you as well uh looking at gld here in the pre-market it printed a low of 376
05:58and a half
05:58before bouncing with the trump truth social post looks like it bounced from 376 up to 409 and is
06:06currently sitting at about 401 here today
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