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The market followed up Tuesday’s sharp rebound with another constructive session on Wednesday. Short-term breadth improved further and all three major index ETFs closed above their EMA9, but the broader backdrop remains fragile, with weak monthly breadth readings and still-unfavorable weekly trend signals for SPY and QQQ.

Wednesday, April 1 was supposed to be the day investors got clarity. Instead, Nike handed them a gutting earnings miss while Trump delivered an Iran speech that confused as much as it comforted.

After several sessions of heavy internal deterioration, the market finally produced a strong upside breadth day on the latest dataset shown here, dated March 31, 2026. The rebound was broad and forceful, but most medium-term breadth measures still remain weak, which means this looks more like a relief rally inside a damaged market than a confirmed trend reversal.

March 31 delivered the best single session for U.S. equities in nearly a year, as softening rhetoric from both Washington and Tehran raised real hopes that the five-week Iran war may finally be winding down.

Monday’s breadth data looked less extreme than Friday’s washout, but there was no real repair beneath the surface.

Wall Street started the week with a whimper as memory chipmakers extended their brutal selloff on AI efficiency fears, crude oil pushed past $102, and Jerome Powell chose patience over panic.

Friday’s data showed another clear distribution day, with decliners overwhelming advancers and already-weak intermediate-term breadth deteriorating further.

The Iran conflict tightens its grip on markets as the Dow joins the Nasdaq in correction territory, Meta reels from a double legal knockout, and a surprise AI data leak rattles the entire cybersecurity sector.

Wednesday’s rebound did not receive any confirmation on Thursday. Market breadth rolled over sharply again, daily participation collapsed, and both SPY and QQQ were pushed back into key support zones, confirming that the market remains in a fragile, distribution-driven environment.

Thursday handed investors a painful reminder that geopolitics and technology disruption can strike simultaneously. The Nasdaq shed 2.4% and the Dow Jones fell 1%, with semiconductor stocks absorbing the heaviest blows, caught between fears of a helium shortage triggered by the Iran conflict and a Google algorithm that threatens to upend memory demand. Meanwhile, oil surged past $107 a barrel, and Snap tumbled after Brussels opened a child safety probe.

A second straight improvement in daily breadth helped stabilize the market on March 25, with advancers clearly outpacing decliners and short-term participation expanding. Still, the broader backdrop remains fragile: most medium- and longer-term breadth measures are weak, SPY and QQQ remain below their short-term moving averages, and the weekly trend picture continues to argue for caution.

Arm Holdings surged close to 17% after announcing plans to sell its own chips directly for the first time, with Meta as its first customer. Meanwhile, Wall Street ended the day modestly higher as investors balanced ceasefire hopes against an oil market caught between relief and renewed tension.

Tuesday’s market action showed that Monday’s rebound did little to repair the market’s internal damage. Breadth weakened sharply again, with decliners back in control and participation across key moving-average metrics still stuck at depressed levels. The major indexes are now sitting near important support zones, while the broader market continues to look fragile beneath the surface.

Oil crossed back above $100 a barrel as Iran–US diplomacy showed its cracks, a climbing 10-year yield hammered the tech sector, and fresh redemption gates at two of the largest private credit funds raised uncomfortable questions about liquidity in a $1.8 trillion market. Tuesday delivered more than enough to keep investors on their toes heading into Wednesday's session.

A strong upside breadth day gave the market a needed reset after Friday’s heavy damage. Still, the broader participation data remains weak enough that this looks more like a relief rebound inside a fragile market than a fully restored bullish environment.

A five-day pause on potential U.S. strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure was all it took to flip a sea of red into a splash of green on Monday. Oil fell hard, rates retreated, and cruise and airline stocks surged, while Tesla's Terafab chip ambitions and Berkshire's latest Japan move added some genuine corporate substance to the session.

The brief stabilization seen a day earlier did not hold. Friday’s session brought another broad-based washout, with decliners overwhelming advancers and already-weak participation metrics deteriorating further. The major indexes remain under pressure on both the daily and weekly timeframes, and the breadth data continues to argue for a defensive reading.

Four straight weeks of losses, oil prices surging past $112 a barrel, gold posting its worst weekly drop in over four decades, and a co-founder of one of the most talked-about AI hardware companies arrested for smuggling chips to China. Friday, March 20 was anything but dull on Wall Street.

After Wednesday’s highly negative breadth washout, Thursday brought a clear short-term improvement in participation, especially on a daily and weekly basis. Still, the broader picture did not materially improve: most medium-term breadth readings remain weak, leadership is scarce, and the major indexes are still trading at or near important support zones.

Trump and Netanyahu's reassuring remarks on the Iran conflict pulled oil prices back from multi-year highs and gave Wall Street a lifeline on Thursday, but the structural threat to the Strait of Hormuz remains very much alive. Meanwhile, Micron's blockbuster results were overshadowed by an eye-popping capex pledge, and FedEx delivered a post-market earnings surprise that should have your attention heading into Friday's open.

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