{"id":21863,"date":"2026-08-21T07:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/august-21-market-roundup\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:37:04","slug":"august-21-market-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/august-21-market-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"August 21 Market Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, the Trump administration announced a new round of \u201ctoughest-ever\u201d economic sanctions against Iran and threatened to take economic action against any country that conducts business with Iran. <br\/>U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent stated regarding bond repurchases that the size of a single repurchase (upper limit) could exceed $4 billion. The U.S. Dollar Index held steady near 98.9 and ultimately closed up 0.07% at 98.87;The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed up 6.7 basis points at 4.705%, while the 2-year U.S. Treasury yield\u2014which is sensitive to the Fed\u2019s policy rate\u2014closed up 2.8 basis points at 4.19%. <br\/>Following profit-taking by bulls after the previous day\u2019s sharp rally, spot gold edged lower, ultimately closing down 0.08% at $4,519.33 per ounce;spot silver maintained its strength, ultimately closing up 1.60% at $68.09 per ounce. <br\/>As the U.S. announced a new round of severe sanctions against Iran and navigation through the Strait of Hormuz remained restricted, WTI crude oil closed up 2.08% at $85.98 per barrel; Brent crude oil closed up 1.79% at $91.69 per barrel. <br\/>U.S. stocks closed lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 1.3%, the S&amp;P 500 down 0.86%, and the Nasdaq down 1%. Moderna (MRNA.O) fell 23.5%, and Walmart (WMT.N) fell 9%.M-Ville Technologies (MRVL.O) rose 5.8%, Micron Technology (MU.O) rose about 4%, and SanDisk (SNDK.O) rose about 2%. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index closed down more than 1%, while Alibaba (BABA.N) rose 1.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the Trump administration announced a new round of \u201ctoughest-ever\u201d economic sanctions against Iran and threatened to take economic action against any country that conducts business with Iran. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent stated regarding bond repurchases that the size of a single repurchase (upper limit) could exceed $4 billion. The U.S. Dollar Index held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21863","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\/21863","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=21863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21864,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863\/revisions\/21864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}