{"id":344821,"date":"2026-04-01T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/?p=344821"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:16:12","slug":"oil-fades-stocks-rise-as-war-grinds-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/oil-fades-stocks-rise-as-war-grinds-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil fades, stocks rise as war grinds on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stocks&nbsp;in Toronto and New York saw some gains as oil fell, lifted by optimism over the US-Israel-Iran war. The S&amp;P closed 0.73%, the Nasdaq 1.16%, the Dow 0.48% and the TSX 0.63%. WTI, in contrast, sank US$2.30 to US$99.10, though gold added US$99 to US$4,767 and silver climbed half a dollar to US$76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tech led the rally in New York with <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/WDC-Q\">Western Digital<\/a> up 10.07%, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/SNDK-Q\">Sandisk<\/a> 9.03%, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/MU-Q\">Micron<\/a>\u00a08.88% and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/INTC-Q\">Intel<\/a> 8.84%. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/NKE-N\">Nike<\/a> reported and cratered 15.51%. In Toronto, materials and healthcare led nine sectors up while energy saw a big sell-off. Most notable were <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/DSV-T\">Discovery\u00a0Silver<\/a> up 9.84%, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/CS-T\">Capstone Copper<\/a> 7.91%, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/CNQ-T\">CNQ<\/a> -4.75%, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/TXG-T\">Torex Gold Resources<\/a> 7.42% and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/WCP-T\">Whitecap Resources<\/a> -6.94%. Bitcoin was flat at US$68,125 while the US 10-year yield held at 4.33%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f4be; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/WDC-Q\">Western Digital (WDC-Q)<\/a> +10.07%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f4be; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/SNDK-Q\">Sandisk Corp (SNDK-Q)<\/a> +9.03%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f4be; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/MU-Q\">Micron Technology (MU-Q)<\/a> +8.88%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f4be; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/INTC-Q\">Intel (INTC-Q)<\/a> +8.84%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f45f; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/NKE-N\">Nike Inc (NKE-N)<\/a> -15.51%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f948; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/DSV-T\">Discovery Silver (DSV-T)<\/a> +9.84%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f949; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/CS-T\">Capstone Copper Corp (CS-T)<\/a> +7.91%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f6e2; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/CNQ-T\">Canadian Natural Rsrcs (CNQ-T)<\/a> -4.75%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f947; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/TXG-T\">Torex Gold Resources (TXG-T)<\/a> +7.42%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f6e2; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/WCP-T\">Whitecap Resources (WCP-T)<\/a> -6.94%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stocks&nbsp;in Toronto and New York saw some gains as oil fell, lifted by optimism over the US-Israel-Iran war. The S&amp;P closed 0.73%, the Nasdaq 1.16%, the Dow 0.48% and the TSX 0.63%. WTI, in contrast, sank US$2.30 to US$99.10, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":343920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No","cwp_rev_product_name":"","cwp_rev_product_image":"","wppr_links":[],"cwp_rev_price":"","wppr_options":[],"wppr_pros":[],"wppr_cons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily"],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344822,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344821\/revisions\/344822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}