{"id":21847,"date":"2026-08-20T07:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/august-20-market-roundup\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:28:44","slug":"august-20-market-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/august-20-market-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"August 20 Market Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury announced it would at least double the scale of its long-term Treasury repurchase operations. Following the announcement, the U.S. Dollar Index plummeted, falling below the 99 mark for the first time since June and ultimately closing down 0.85% at 98.78;The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed at 4.651%, while the 2-year U.S. Treasury yield, which is sensitive to the Fed\u2019s policy rate, closed at 4.171%. <br\/>Spot gold broke through the 4,500 psychological barrier, surging more than $180 intraday to hit its highest level since early June, and ultimately closed up 4.35% at $4,523.03 per ounce;Spot silver ultimately closed up 5.8% at $67.01 per ounce. <br\/>Driven by news of the ongoing standoff in the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. military\u2019s secret opening of a shipping lane, the market is weighing the direction of oil prices.WTI crude traded sideways before closing up 0.08% at $84.23 per barrel; Brent crude closed up 0.1% at $91.45 per barrel. <br\/>The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 0.22%,the S&amp;P 500 gained 0.21%, and the Nasdaq rose 0.16%. Moderna (MRNA.O) surged 176.9%, and Merck (MRK.N) rose 12.6%. Marvell Technology (MRVL.O) gained over 9.8%,SK Hynix (SKHY.O) rose 0.35%, SanDisk (SNDK.O) fell 3.5%, and Micron Technology (MU.O) fell 0.39%. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index closed up 1.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury announced it would at least double the scale of its long-term Treasury repurchase operations. Following the announcement, the U.S. Dollar Index plummeted, falling below the 99 mark for the first time since June and ultimately closing down 0.85% at 98.78;The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed at 4.651%, while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21847","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\/21847","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=21847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21848,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21847\/revisions\/21848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}