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LPL Research<\/a>
\nLast Updated: April 10, 2026<\/p>\n

LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of\u00a0April\u00a06,\u00a02026.<\/b> Markets rebounded during the first full week of April as easing geopolitical tensions drove a broad risk\u2011on rally across global assets. U.S. and international equities advanced on optimism surrounding a temporary U.S.\u2013Iran ceasefire and cooling\u00a0energy prices, while fixed income markets\u00a0found\u00a0support amid\u00a0a mixed, but reassuring slate of Treasury auctions. Commodities retreated from recent highs, particularly\u00a0crude\u00a0oil, as ceasefire developments\u00a0ebbed\u00a0supply fears\u00a0and the geopolitical\u00a0risk\u00a0premium, and the dollar softened, helping precious metals extend gains.<\/p>\n

Stock Index Performance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Index<\/b><\/td>\nWeek-Ending<\/b><\/td>\nOne Month<\/b><\/td>\nYear to Date<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
S&P 500<\/b><\/td>\n3.59%<\/td>\n0.56%<\/td>\n-0.38%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dow Jones Industrial<\/b><\/td>\n3.04%<\/td>\n0.45%<\/td>\n-0.30%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nasdaq Composite<\/b><\/td>\n4.75%<\/td>\n0.97%<\/td>\n-1.39%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Russell 2000<\/b><\/td>\n4.06%<\/td>\n3.32%<\/td>\n6.07%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MSCI EAFE<\/b><\/td>\n4.24%<\/td>\n2.96%<\/td>\n6.38%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MSCI EM<\/b><\/td>\n6.98%<\/td>\n3.17%<\/td>\n10.66%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

S&P 500 Index Sectors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sector<\/b><\/td>\nWeek-Ending<\/b><\/td>\nOne Month<\/b><\/td>\nYear to Date<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Materials<\/b><\/td>\n3.50%<\/td>\n4.59%<\/td>\n14.42%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Utilities<\/b><\/td>\n1.38%<\/td>\n1.56%<\/td>\n10.12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Industrials<\/b><\/td>\n4.81%<\/td>\n1.23%<\/td>\n10.70%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consumer Staples<\/b><\/td>\n0.34%<\/td>\n-2.98%<\/td>\n7.47%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Real Estate<\/b><\/td>\n2.59%<\/td>\n-0.17%<\/td>\n6.52%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health Care<\/b><\/td>\n0.28%<\/td>\n-3.62%<\/td>\n-4.91%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Financials<\/b><\/td>\n2.55%<\/td>\n1.93%<\/td>\n-7.22%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consumer Discretionary<\/b><\/td>\n5.58%<\/td>\n0.28%<\/td>\n-4.84%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Information Technology<\/b><\/td>\n5.07%<\/td>\n1.37%<\/td>\n-2.86%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Communication Services<\/b><\/td>\n5.67%<\/td>\n0.09%<\/td>\n-0.35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Energy<\/b><\/td>\n-4.27%<\/td>\n2.78%<\/td>\n26.87%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Fixed Income and Commodities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Indexes and Commodities<\/b><\/td>\nWeek-Ending<\/b><\/td>\nOne Month<\/b><\/td>\nYear to Date<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate<\/b><\/td>\n0.46%<\/td>\n-0.35%<\/td>\n0.41%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bloomberg Credit<\/b><\/td>\n0.59%<\/td>\n-0.23%<\/td>\n0.24%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bloomberg Munis<\/b><\/td>\n0.80%<\/td>\n-0.37%<\/td>\n0.95%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bloomberg High Yield<\/b><\/td>\n1.02%<\/td>\n0.45%<\/td>\n0.93%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oil<\/b><\/td>\n-14.09%<\/td>\n14.82%<\/td>\n66.88%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Natural Gas<\/b><\/td>\n-5.64%<\/td>\n-12.52%<\/td>\n-28.32%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gold<\/b><\/td>\n1.96%<\/td>\n-8.16%<\/td>\n10.39%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Silver<\/b><\/td>\n4.61%<\/td>\n-13.52%<\/td>\n6.59%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source: LPL Research, Bloomberg 4\/10\/26 @3:23 p.m. ET
\nDisclosures: Indexes are unmanaged and cannot be invested in directly.<\/i><\/p>\n

U.S. and International Equities<\/h2>\n

U.S. Equities:\u00a0<\/b>Geopolitically driven\u00a0trading\u00a0continued\u00a0over the first full week of April,\u00a0with ceasefire negotiations on the front burner throughout the last five days.\u00a0There was no shortage of headline\u00a0noise\u00a0with\u00a0news flow\u00a0highly volatile around the odds of a deal being struck ahead of the White House\u2019s deadline\u00a0last\u00a0Tuesday night\u00a0and threats of escalation if the\u00a0cutoff\u00a0was missed.\u00a0After murmurs of progressing talks\u00a0lifted\u00a0stocks into positive territory in the final minutes of Tuesday\u00a0trading,\u00a0risk\u00a0appetite returned in earnest\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0in response to a two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire. Markets responded favorably\u00a0to the temporary accord, which\u00a0buys time\u00a0for both sides to reach a longer-term\u00a0agreement,\u00a0and helped alleviate investor worries of economic impacts as oil prices\u00a0plummeted.\u00a0From there, stocks shrugged off more headline noise around a potential breach of the agreement\u00a0and shaky durability of the truce\u00a0to continue the relief rally\u00a0to\u00a0post\u00a0straight gains for the S&P 500, before wavering\u00a0slightly\u00a0ahead of the Saturday\u2019s\u00a0meeting\u00a0between Washington and Tehran in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

On the macro front, the first glimpse of consumer price pressures during the conflict\u00a0was\u00a0generally well\u00a0received, with March Consumer Price Index (CPI) results matching\u00a0consensus\u2019 expectations for rises in inflation last month.\u00a0Outside of geopolitics, artificial intelligence (AI) and tech shares returned to the headlines on fresh chip and compute deals, as well as investor chatter around improved positioning and relative valuations. Although, weakness in software names continued as AI disruption\u00a0angst crept back into focus.<\/p>\n

International Equities:\u00a0<\/b>The holiday-shortened week in Europe\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0hold back a relief rally of its own as the STOXX 600 Index jumped over 3% over the last four days.\u00a0Cooling tensions in the Mideast were\u00a0easily the largest directional driver this week, with\u00a0traders\u00a0subsequently\u00a0paring back rate hike expectations from\u00a0the European Central Bank and the Bank of England flagged as another\u00a0tailwind.\u00a0The risk-on mood was further supported after Ukraine\u2019s top negotiator with Moscow remarked on progress toward a potential deal with the Kremlin on Friday.<\/p>\n

Peace talks in the Middle East also spurred risk-on sentiment across the Asia-Pacific region,\u00a0with benchmarks for\u00a0Taiwan and South Korea leading\u00a0gains for the\u00a0region, aided by\u00a0technology enthusiasm driving 8%+ advances.\u00a0Further, Seoul was supported by President Lee Jae Myung offering a proposal to ease housing price pressures, and an extra 26.2 trillion won budget from parliament to mitigate war-related impacts.\u00a0Elsewhere, homegrown tech\u00a0excitement\u00a0lifted greater China\u00a0on\u00a0optimism around DeepSeek\u2019s upcoming model launch.\u00a0In Japan, the\u00a0tech-heavy Nikkei posted a strong gain while the Topix was a relative laggard as investors analyzed\u00a0a\u00a0Bank of Japan warning\u00a0around\u00a0potential economic\u00a0effects\u00a0from the conflict and energy supply disruption.<\/p>\n

Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodity Markets<\/h2>\n

Fixed Income: <\/b>Core bonds, measured by the Bloomberg Aggregate\u00a0Index,\u00a0traded\u00a0higher with a full slate of auctions in focus in addition to the U.S.-Iran ceasefire.\u00a0After last week\u2019s poor Treasury auction showing, this week\u2019s results were mixed but reassuring. The Treasury Department auctioned\u00a0$58\u00a0billion\u00a0of\u00a0three\u2011year notes,\u00a0$39\u00a0billion\u00a0of 10\u2011year notes, and\u00a0$22\u00a0billion\u00a0of 30\u2011year bonds.<\/p>\n

Strong demand at the short end delivered the cleanest result of the week\u00a0for the three-year auction. Investors were willing to reach for front\u2011end duration even amid war uncertainty.\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0not surprising given the\u00a0three\u2011year\u2019s limited exposure to fiscal and inflation tail risks, but it was reassuring, nonetheless.\u00a0The\u00a010\u2011year\u00a0sale, however, was adequate\u00a0but\u00a0not inspiring. A modest tail suggests the market required a bit more\u00a0yield\u00a0concession to clear the deal. In a week when the ceasefire narrative was shifting in real time, \u201cnearly met expectations\u201d is\u00a0probably the\u00a0best outcome one could have hoped for. This\u00a0shouldn\u2019t\u00a0be read as a sign of health, but rather as evidence that the market is still price\u2011discovering within a new risk regime.\u00a0And for the long-bond, demand was slightly softer following several strong\u00a030-year\u00a0auctions in recent weeks. Still, a yield of 4.876%\u00a0remains\u00a0relatively attractive\u00a0for long\u2011duration buyers with 5% as the level that has seemed to hold during market\u00a0sell-offs. The softness is understandable though, as longer maturities are more sensitive to growth, inflation risks, and fiscal concerns.\u00a0Foreign demand held, with the most important\u00a0takeaway\u00a0is that foreign buyers did not visibly step back.<\/p>\n

The ceasefire, not the auctions, was the real market maker. The sharp mid\u2011week decline in yields meant Thursday\u2019s 30\u2011year auction priced into a fundamentally different rate environment than Monday\u2019s setup. That was a meaningful tailwind, but it also complicates the read on true underlying demand.\u00a0This week\u2019s results\u00a0represent\u00a0relief, not a reset, and the fiscal math\u00a0hasn\u2019t\u00a0changed, keeping buyers cautious about adding significant duration at current levels.<\/p>\n

Commodities and Currencies: <\/b>The broader commodities complex\u00a0snapped a string of gains,\u00a0dropping\u00a0as traders grappled with the latest developments in the Persian Gulf.\u00a0West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude prices were on track for\u00a0their\u00a0biggest loss in months on optimistic, yet cautious, expectations of the conflict in Iran\u00a0coming to an end\u00a0following Tuesday night\u2019s temporary truce. Prices pulled back from weekly highs around\u00a0$117 per barrel to trade near $98, a steep drop,\u00a0but floored due to\u00a0a very limited\u00a0Strait of Hormuz\u00a0re-opening\u00a0(and\u00a0Iran\u2019s\u00a0reported mulling\u00a0of\u00a0tolling ships) and some lingering uncertainty around upcoming U.S.-Iran and Israel-Lebanon negotiations.\u00a0Plus, the natural delay between the departure and arrival of shipments\u00a0means supply relief will take time. Elsewhere, gold prices\u00a0extended last week\u2019s bounce to eye a third straight weekly gain as the dollar faced downside pressure and traders began to open the door to a chance of a Fed rate cut again.\u00a0In physical markets, demand in India ticked up and Chinese retail demand softened. Silver outperformed the yellow\u00a0metal, but\u00a0still trailed a solid week for copper.<\/p>\n

Economic Weekly Roundup<\/h2>\n

March Consumer Price Index Release: <\/b>As expected, headline consumer inflation rose on the back of a war in the Middle East and a shutdown of a major chokepoint in energy transportation.<\/p>\n