Wall Street starts the month with new geopolitical fearthe American-Israeli raid on Iran. The impact of oil price and inflation They are the main concerns among investors and analysts. Given this, the DOW JONES Ind Averagea drop is marked at the close of Monday with a -0.15% to 48,904 points. While the S&P 500 y NASDAQ 100 they manage to rise to Monday’s close in a +0.04% to 6,881 points and +0.36% to 22,748 points respectively.
In these types of conflicts there are sectors that usually benefit and others are severely affected. In this case, the beneficiaries were the energy and defense sectorswhile those affected were airlines and hotels because of the impact on their businesses.
An example of the impact of this can be seen in ETFs such as the ETF iShares Aerospace & Defense (ITA) which records a clear break from a six-week low and is heading for its first all-time closing high since mid-January (which would be the tenth of 2026), according to Yahoo Finance.
Las cybersecurity actions They also benefited from the conflict, since they warned of a increased risk of cyber attacks according to Yahoo Finance.
Iran is known for its sophisticated cyber capabilitiesplacing itself between China, North Korea and Russia in terms of cyber threats from nation-states. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged US organizations to remain vigilant against cyberattacks and ransomware attacks by Iranian actors or their affiliates targeting critical infrastructure and companies linked to the defense sector.
Israeli hackers also infiltrated Iranian applications and networks in the context of the US and Israeli airstrikes over the weekend.
He Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Officer for Europe, Scott McKinnon, stated that there is likely to be increased risk in the coming weeks as nation-states, including Iran, seek to retaliate.
«I am confident that in the coming days we will see an uptick in activity as a result of what happened over the weekend,» he said. McKinnon a Euronews.
But in this wave of sales there may also be one orInvestment opportunity for long-term investors According to experts from JPMorgan In a note this Monday shared by Yahoo Finance.
«The dramatic events of the weekend will naturally lead to risk aversion in the short-term markets, but if you have a longer time horizon than the next few days and weeks, in terms of 3, 6 or 12 months, you should take advantage of the weakness to increase the portfolio,» the strategists wrote.
In other news, bad news for Donald Trump’s tariffs. It is that a federal appeals court on Monday rejected the Trump Administration’s request for delay proceedings in legal battle over tariff refunds for importersafter the decision of the US Supreme Court to overturn tariff monetary policy of the president according to Investing.
He United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an order to immediately reopen legal proceedings and return the case to the United States Court of International Trade. The court rejected the government’s request for a pause of up to four months.
Regarding economic data we had the February Manufacturing PMI with a result of 51.6 compared to the expected 51.2, February ISM Manufacturing PMI with a result of 52.4 compared to the expected 51.7, the ISM manufacturing employment index for February with a result of 48.8 compared to the expected 48.3, the ISM manufacturing sector price index for February with a result of 70.5 compared to the expected 60.6 and the ISM index of new manufacturing orders for February with a result of 55.8 compared to the expected 53.3.
We also had 3-month public debt auction (T-Bill) with a performance of 3.610% already 6 meses (T-Bill) with a 3.535%.
Among the winning actions we have Strategy Rg-A (+6.29% to $137.65), Palantir Tchnl-A (+5.80% to $145.15) and NVIDIA (+2.93% to $182.48)
Strategy goes up after the recovery of sales that Bitcoin accused over the weekend due to the conflict in Iran, according to Inveting.
Bitcoin fell to a low of 63.038 dollars over the weekend after attacks on Iran triggered risk-averse sentiment. The cryptocurrency reversed course early Monday, shooting to a high of $69,615 as momentum built following the rebound from lower levels.
Palantir rises in the middle of the rise in defense sector stocks because of the conflict with Iran.
Nvidia rises after the reiteration of the rating of “better performance” by Baird with a target price in 300 dollars ante changes in optical infrastructureaccording to Investing.
The firm noted that optical technology is increasingly becoming the central axis of AI infrastructure deployments and is positioned to replace copper at speeds greater than 400G/lane. Companies are increasing their intellectual property portfolio and integrating optics into their vertical models as the supply of pluggable transceivers is strained.
Nvidia’s investments in Coherent y Lumentum Hldngs They will support capacity expansion while ensuring supply to the chipmaker. This validates the opinion that Co-Packaged Opticsdriven by Nvidia for very high-end segments and expected to increase significantly in 2027, will not displace pluggable transceivers for years.
Among the losing stocks we have Seagate Hldgs (-6.95% to $379.51), Aes (-17.77% to $14.21) and Home Depot (-2.67% to $370.55)
The actions of Seagate y Home Depot They do not fall because of a specific fact, but because of the risk aversion by investors fleeing towards defensive sectors due to the conflict in Iran.
AES falls after the announcement that a conglomerate formed by Global Infrastructure Partners and EQT have agreed to buy the firm for a stock value of $10.7 billionwhich represents a enterprise value of $33.4 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, the AES shareholders will receive $15 per share in cash. The operation represents a before 40.3% on the company’s average share price over the last 30 days.
Before finishing with the rest of the quotes, Technical analyst of Investment Strategies, José Antonio Gonzálezshares an analysis of the Dow Jones Mini Future:
The Mini Dow Jones Industrial Future (YM) manages to establish itself in positive territory after a strongly bearish start to the session, reaching declines of -1.7%. Precisely from the secondary or medium-term growing guideline, which functions as the lower band of a broad bullish channel, money appears in the market.
The demand reaction is accompanied by an improvement in the quality of the volume, while we are not witnessing a significant rebound in volatility levels that could suggest a feeling of strong risk aversion, in fact, quite the opposite, investors once again show a feeling of buying on the dips and what began as a really complicated session, becomes a day that faces its final stretch thinking about attacking important resistances in the short term, such as (i) the bearish guideline that starts from annual highs, as well as (ii) the exceeding of the last projected decreasing maximum from 49,872 points.
Mini Dow Jones Industrial (YM) future on daily scale with volatility (upper center chart), MACD (lower center chart) and trading activity (lower window). Source: ProRealTime and own elaboration.
Los Oil futures WTI they go up a +6.79% to $71.57 and the Brent and +7.62% to $78.42.
He Oroupload a +1.94% to $5,349 per ounce and the Plata falls a -3.37% at 90.15 dollars.
The pair EURUSD falls a -1.03% a 1.1692.
Bitcoin upload a +5.35% to $69,282.
He US 10-year bond yield upload a +2.07% a 4.042 already 30 years +1.14% to 4,686.
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