{"id":18523,"date":"2026-07-19T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/weekly-outlook-u-s-iran-tensions-continue-to-escalate-sharply-oversold-gold-and-tech-stocks-face-a-critical-test\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:58:55","slug":"weekly-outlook-u-s-iran-tensions-continue-to-escalate-sharply-oversold-gold-and-tech-stocks-face-a-critical-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/weekly-outlook-u-s-iran-tensions-continue-to-escalate-sharply-oversold-gold-and-tech-stocks-face-a-critical-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Outlook: U.S.-Iran Tensions Continue to \u201cEscalate Sharply\u201d; Oversold Gold and Tech Stocks Face a Critical Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a week of mixed market trends, gold, the U.S. dollar, crude oil, and U.S. stocks took center stage. Following a mixed start in early July, relatively weak CPI and PPI reports put downward pressure on the U.S. dollar, overshadowing the continued hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Wash.However, weakness in U.S. stocks and some safe-haven capital inflows linked to renewed tensions in the Middle East ultimately limited the dollar\u2019s decline. <br\/>Geopolitical tensions also spurred a rally in crude oil prices; as risk premiums surged, both WTI and Brent crude posted strong gains, pushing volatility to new highs.One factor driving these price increases was Ukraine\u2019s intensive strikes on Russian oil facilities\u2014particularly refineries\u2014as the four-year Russia-Ukraine conflict recently entered a new phase of escalation. <br\/>Additionally, gold prices briefly fell below the $4,000 mark, posting a cumulative weekly decline of 2.5% and closing lower for the second consecutive week. <br\/>More importantly, despite a reduced likelihood of a Federal Reserve rate hike in September and optimistic initial earnings reports from U.S. banking institutions and technology companies, overly high expectations for a strong earnings season ultimately triggered a pullback due to profit-taking.The Nasdaq 100 Index bore the brunt of the decline, and European stock markets also failed to recover from last week\u2019s weak performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a week of mixed market trends, gold, the U.S. dollar, crude oil, and U.S. stocks took center stage. Following a mixed start in early July, relatively weak CPI and PPI reports put downward pressure on the U.S. dollar, overshadowing the continued hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Wash.However, weakness in U.S. stocks and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trading-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18524,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523\/revisions\/18524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}