Stocks Soar As Iran Declares Strait Open For Business

MRKT Matrix - Friday, April 17th Dow rallies 800 points, S&P 500 tops 7,100 for the first time after Iran declares Strait of Hormuz open (CNBC) It’s Getting Harder to Tell Investing From Gambling, and It’s Not Your Fault (WSJ) Wall Street banks start trading derivatives to bet on pain in private credit (FT) Bank of America’s Michael Hartnett backs these two trades to play lower rates, ‘AI war’ (CNBC) Intel Shares Soar to Highest Since 2000 on Turnaround Optimism (Bloomberg) Scoop: Anthropic's peace talks (Axios) S&P 500 Earnings Season Update: April 17, 2026 (FactSet) --- Subscribe to our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://riskreversal.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MRKT Matrix by RiskReversal Media is a daily AI powered podcast bringing you the top stories moving financial markets Story curation by RiskReversal, scripts by Perplexity Pro, voice by ElevenLabs