{"id":21774,"date":"2026-08-14T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/august-14-market-recap\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:24:01","slug":"august-14-market-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/august-14-market-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"August 14 Market Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, the U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) for July came in lower than expected, further indicating that inflationary pressures previously driven by soaring oil prices are easing; bond traders are no longer fully pricing in the possibility of a Federal Reserve rate hike this year;On the geopolitical front, Iran claimed to have full control of the Strait of Hormuz and threatened to escalate the conflict if its demands were not met; the U.S. military maintained its blockade of Iran and deployed the aircraft carrier USS Washington to the Middle East for a rotation. <br\/>The U.S. Dollar Index ultimately closed up 0.01% at 99.97; the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed at 4.647%, while the 2-year U.S. Treasury yield\u2014which is sensitive to the Fed\u2019s policy rate\u2014closed at 4.153%. <br\/>Spot gold faced profit-taking, with the price peaking near $4,450 before ultimately closing down 1.30% at $4,350.07 per ounce; spot silver closed down 1.34% at $64.47 per ounce. <br\/>The latest U.S. crude oil inventory report showed a significant increase, and traders are assessing the current volume of crude oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz, leading to a decline in international oil prices.WTI crude oil closed down 1.55% at $80.43 per barrel; Brent crude oil closed down 1.58% at $85.86 per barrel. <br\/>U.S. stocks closed with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.13%, the S&amp;P 500 up 0.65%, and the Nasdaq up 0.8%. Micron Technology (MU.O) rose 4%, SanDisk (SNDK.O) rose 13.6%, and SK Hynix (SKHY.O) rose 7%.The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index fell 1.85%, with Alibaba (BABA.N) down 2% and JD.com (JD.O) down 7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) for July came in lower than expected, further indicating that inflationary pressures previously driven by soaring oil prices are easing; bond traders are no longer fully pricing in the possibility of a Federal Reserve rate hike this year;On the geopolitical front, Iran claimed to have full control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21774","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\/21774","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=21774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21775,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21774\/revisions\/21775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}