Iran Peace Talks Send Oil Down 1.69% While Tech Rockets 4.24%. The War Premium Unwinding Is Just Beginning.

April 01, 2026 

Iran Peace Talks Send Oil Down 1.69% While Tech Rockets 4.24%. The War Premium Unwinding Is Just Beginning. 

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War Premium Unwind 📊

The market just delivered its verdict on Iran peace talks: massive sector rotation out of war hedges and into growth. Oil plunged 1.69% to $99.67 while technology surged 4.24% — the largest single-day divergence since the conflict began.

This isn’t just relief buying. It’s institutional money repositioning for a post-conflict world where geopolitical premiums evaporate and fundamentals matter again. The S&P 500 jumped 2.91% to 6,528.52, but the story is in the sector spreads.

SECTOR ROTATION SIGNALS

Technology (XLK): +4.24% — Highest since November

Energy (XLE): -1.13% — Worst day in 3 weeks

Spread: 5.37 percentage points — Largest since conflict began

The VIX collapsed 2.97% to 24.50 while the 10-year yield dropped 71 basis points to 4.31%. This is risk-on with a capital R.

Investor Signal:

When war premiums unwind this aggressively, the rotation typically continues for weeks. Energy weakness paired with tech strength suggests institutions are betting on sustained de-escalation.

Technology sector leads market with 4.24% surge on peace optimismXLK Chart

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But one little-known statistic suggests the entire sector could be on the verge of a massive collapse.

Warren Buffett once called it “the best single measure of valuations.”

Today, that indicator is flashing far above where it stood before the Dot-Com crash.

If this signal proves right, many AI favorites could fall hard. 

See the warning sign and what investors should consider doing now.

The $99 Oil Break Changes Everything 🛢️

Energy sector falls 1.13% as oil drops on Iran de-escalation hopesXLE Chart

Oil’s drop below $100 isn’t just psychological — it’s systematic unwinding of the largest geopolitical trade in decades. WTI crude fell 1.69% to $99.67 as France and Japan aligned on ceasefire talks, sending energy stocks into freefall.

But here’s what most missed: the energy selloff was orderly, not panicked. Volume in XLE was 30% above average — institutional, not retail. Smart money is rotating, not fleeing.

ENERGY COMPLEX BREAKDOWN

WTI Crude: $99.67 (-1.69%) — First close below $100 in two weeks

XLE Volume: 30% above 20-day average

Energy vs S&P: -4.04% relative performance — Worst since March 15

Investor Signal:

Energy’s orderly decline suggests institutions are repositioning for a 90-95 oil environment, not capitulating. This creates opportunity in oversold energy names.

Meanwhile, the Magnificent 7 exploded higher. Meta surged 6.67% to $572.13, Nvidia jumped 5.59% to $174.40, and Google climbed 5.14% to $287.56. This is growth rotation at its purest — money flowing from defensive war plays back to secular winners.

The dollar fell 0.51% while gold still managed a 1.99% gain to $4,771.50. That’s the tell: even with de-escalation, investors aren’t abandoning hard assets entirely. They’re just rebalancing the mix.

CROSS-ASSET SIGNALS

Dollar Index: 99.45 (-0.51%) — Two-week low

10Y Yield: 4.31% (-71bps) — Biggest drop since March 18

Gold: $4,771.50 (+1.99%) — Still near record highs despite peace talks

Investor Signal:

Gold’s resilience during de-escalation shows investors still want portfolio insurance. The metal is transitioning from war hedge to inflation hedge — a longer-term, more sustainable bid.

How to Be on the Right Side of Trump’s Biggest Move Yet

Trump’s moves in 2025 created massive winners and losers. 

Solar stocks lost $20 billion from a single announcement, while Palantir soared 140% when Trump made AI a national priority. 

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He calls it “Project 2026.” 

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The Bond Market’s Peace Dividend 📈

The 10-year Treasury’s 71 basis point rally to 4.31% tells the real story. Bond traders aren’t just betting on lower oil — they’re pricing in reduced Fed hawkishness as geopolitical risks fade. This is the bond market’s peace dividend.

Financials rose 2.09% despite falling yields, signaling that investors see the rate environment stabilizing rather than collapsing. Banks can work with 4.31% ten-year yields. They struggle with volatile swings between 3.80% and 4.90%.

APRIL POSITIONING SNAPSHOT

Russell 2000: +3.41% — Small caps leading on domestic focus

Industrials: +3.27% — Infrastructure plays benefiting

Utilities: -0.07% — Only sector flat as rates fell

Small caps’ 3.41% surge in the Russell 2000 signals money rotating back to domestic growth stories. With geopolitical risks fading, investors are rediscovering companies that thrive on stable energy costs and predictable supply chains.

Investor Signal:

The Russell 2000 outperforming mega-caps suggests this rotation has legs. Small caps have been oversold relative to fundamentals, creating opportunity as risk premiums normalize.

Tomorrow brings fresh economic data in a dramatically different context. What looked like stagflation risk last week now reads as normalization. The market is betting on peace — and positioning accordingly.

Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow.
— David Mercer, Senior Market AnalystP.S. While everyone’s focused on oil’s decline, I’ve been tracking a different angle on this war premium unwind — three specific sectors that historically surge when geopolitical tensions ease, and one in particular is sitting at multi-year lows despite fundamentals that should have it trading 40% higher. The setup reminds me of energy stocks in early 2020, right before they exploded.

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Goldman Sachs just predicted 300 million jobs will disappear.

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30,000 layoffs at UPS. 16,000 at Amazon. Factories are going “lights out” with zero human workers.

And now Elon Musk’s “Project Apex” is set to accelerate this labor crisis.

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist says what Elon is building “could have an even greater impact on society than the internet.”

Nvidia’s CEO calls it “superhuman.”

And competitors are so panicked, they’re flying spy planes over the facility to figure out how it works.

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Key Points

  • Insider buying is clustering in E.W. Scripps, First Financial Bankshares, and Crane, signaling confidence—but each setup has distinct risks.
  • E.W. Scripps is the highest-risk turnaround of the group, while First Financial Bankshares is positioned as the steadier capital-return story.
  • Crane combines insider buying with raised guidance and a dividend increase, with analyst and institutional sentiment reinforcing the upside case.
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Insiders are buying stocks in 2026, but that doesn’t automatically make them good buys. Each company below carries risks, yet insiders’ purchases suggest upside tied to operational improvement and profit potential. Although headwinds persist, insiders have little reason to buy unless they expect gains. The key questions are timing and magnitude of any recovery. In every case there are near-term catalysts, and the upside potential begins in the double digits.

Insiders Bet Big on E.W. Scripps Rebound Potential 

Insiders are making significant moves in E.W. Scripps (NASDAQ: SSP), suggesting they’re seeing something the market has overlooked. InsiderTrades data show executives — including the CEO, a director and several family-related holders — bought shares in March. That buying is notable both for its size and timing: insiders had not traded the stock for years, and are now suddenly active. 

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One driver is a push for efficiency: Scripps is integrating AI to boost productivity, cutting costs and expanding its network with a focus on sports and local broadcasting. Still, expectations are low—analyst coverage is thin and consensus forecasts show a contraction in fiscal 2027, which may overstate near-term weakness. Traditional TV faces headwinds in 2026, and Scripps is undergoing a high-risk turnaround while carrying meaningful debt. 

Analyst sentiment is mixed—the consensus rating is Reduce, yet the implied upside from price targets is roughly 80%. Institutional trends are clearer: institutions own nearly 80% of the shares and have been net buyers over recent quarters. That buying, together with technical signs—a rounding base in 2024–25 and a move above key exponential moving averages (EMAs) in 2026—suggests the market may be forming a bottom.

E.W. Scripps (SSP) stock chart shows base near $4 as insider buying suggests reversal potential amid improving momentum.

First Financial Bankshares Insiders Buy, Buy, Buy

First Financial Bankshares (NASDAQ: FFIN) has seen persistent insider buying: steady quarterly purchases for the past five quarters with no insider selling. Activity was uneven through 2025 but surged in early 2026, led by directors and the CFO, who together bought more than $650,000 in shares and raised insider ownership to over 3.8%. 

Reasons for the buying include a roughly 2.5% dividend (mid-March) paid at a payout below 50% of earnings, ongoing share buybacks and steady business growth. Book value increased more than 17.5% in fiscal 2025 and is expected to continue rising in 2026. Buybacks remain meaningful, though they didn’t fully offset dilution in 2025.

Analyst coverage is light—only three tracked analysts—and the consensus rating is Hold, with implied upside of about 30% from early March lows if current trends persist. Institutional ownership is stronger, at roughly 70%, and institutions have been net buyers over the past 12 months. Notably, institutional buying accelerated in Q1 2026 after a solid earnings report that reinforced the company’s capacity to return capital. 

First Financial Bankshares (FFIN) stock chart shows pullback toward support near $28, with insider buying hinting at a potential bottom.

Crane Company Insiders Think It Can Fly Higher

Crane Company (NYSE: CR) insiders bought shares in early Q1 after the company reported a strong quarter, raised guidance and increased the dividend by 10%. The dividend yield is modest but supported by a conservative payout ratio of about 15%, leaving room for acquisitions to drive growth. The company is forecast to grow at a mid-single-digit annual rate over the next few years while expanding margins—margin improvement is expected at a low double-digit pace.

Analysts are broadly bullish: all eight tracked analysts rate the stock a Buy and see roughly 30% upside. Institutional investors also appear confident, owning about 75% of Crane and buying aggressively in Q1—the activity balance was over $3.50 bought for every $1 sold—creating a supportive ownership base that can limit downside risk for investors. 

Crane Co. (CR) stock chart shows a pullback after a strong uptrend, with insider buying in early 2026.

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Managing Editor’s Note: After picking Nvidia in 2016, before it jumped as high as 32,000%, former tech executive Jeff Brown is back with a shocking new AI prediction. He believes Elon Musk’s new AI model will be so disruptive that it will trigger a new wave of crashes. And during a strategy session this coming Wednesday, April 8, at 2 p.m. ET, he will show you how to turn those crashes into gains of up to 287%, 476%, and 874% …in 30 days or less. Click here to RSVP or read more below.


Dear Reader,

If you’ve been reading my research, you already know that SpaceX is set to be the biggest IPO in history. I predict Elon Musk will shock the world when he begins to deploy his AI satellites into orbit.

But before the IPO… I believe Elon will create another huge opportunity for you to profit.

You see, he’s planning to release a new AI model that I predict will disrupt several companies… Leading to extreme volatility in the stock market.

To help you prepare, I’m having an urgent online strategy session this comingWednesday, April 8, at 2 p.m. ET.

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And I’ll show you how you can turn all this coming volatility into huge gains.

You see, late last year… An AI company called Anthropic released a new AI model that was so revolutionary that… It triggered a wave of crashes in several software companies.

Elon Musk is about to release a new model that I believe will be even more revolutionary. It’s a model that’s set to be at least three times more powerful than the latest version of ChatGPT.

Nobody is prepared for the level of tech disruption I see coming.

So please click here to save your seat for this strategy session…

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In This Digest:

  • Every major market index is flashing caution or a sell signal – except one
  • Rate-cut odds just jumped from 5% to 25%, and small caps are already responding
  • Our AI forecasting model’s top bullish bets are clustered in two sectors

Relief on Wall Street…

Yesterday, the S&P 500 closed up 2.9% – its biggest move of the year and the third-largest daily gain of the last 12 months.

The top two?

The 9.5% jump on April 9, 2025, the week after the Liberation Day crash… and the 3.3% gain the month after that on May 12.

President Trump says the U.S. will end its war with Iran in “two or three weeks,” even without a full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Traders took that as a reason to hit the buy button.

We’re enjoying the celebration just as much as anyone who owns stocks. But one good day in the market doesn’t change the trend we’ve been following for months…

Software companies – as tracked by the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) – have lost more than 20% year to date.

Even with a potential U.S. exit from Iran, oil is still over $100 a barrel. And if the Iranians don’t open the Strait, it’s hard to see it heading lower anytime soon.

And besides all this, we’re seeing bearish signals across most of the major U.S. indexes we track… with a few notable exceptions.

That exception is our focus today.

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Elon Musk recently held an all-hands meeting at his closely guarded AI lab. He told employees… “We’re moving faster than any other company. No one’s even close.” Why? Because Elon built an AI breakthrough that would take most tech CEOs four years to set up. He brought it online this year… and as early as today, April 1… Elon’s going to crank it to full blast. And potentially make ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek obsolete… While unleashing a brand-new 7,000% growth market. But here’s the twist. Neither Tesla nor SpaceX is the best way to play this opportunity. Instead, you’ll want to own the firm that controls over 38,000 patents on the technology (not semiconductors) that will power Elon’s career-defining vision. Click here for its name and ticker symbol.

Take note which major indexes are holding – or back – in the Green…

TradeSmith tracks two health indicators for stocks and indexes: Long-Term Health and Short-Term Health.

Think of them as the same instrument tuned to two different pitches.

Long-Term Health tracks a stock’s price action against its long-term historical volatility. Then it flags when it sees abnormal volatility spikes – the kind that tend to precede major trend shifts.

It’s designed for buy-and-hold investors who think in years, not months or weeks. When it flashes Red, the long-term trend has broken down. When it flashes Green, a new long-term uptrend has begun. And Yellow is a caution zone – it means to keep a close eye on things.

Short-Term Health works the same way but looks back at only a handful of months instead of a stock’s entire trading history. That makes it faster to react to early-stage trend shifts – and better suited for positions held over months, not years or decades. Green still means buy, Yellow caution, and Red sell.

Together, they give you a two-timeframe read.

  • Is the long-term uptrend still intact?
  • Is near-term momentum building or breaking down?

Right now, that two-timeframe read on the market is bearish in most key areas. But in one sector, it’s held firmly Green… and yesterday’s price action brought new life into several more.

Here are the Long- and Short-Term Health statuses on every major market index we track:

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The tech-filled Nasdaq 100 has been in a Short-Term Health Red Zone since early March – its first sell signal since just before the Liberation Day crash. The S&P 500, the Dow, and the Russell 2000 are also all in Red on Short-Term Health.

The Dow is in a Long-Term Health Red Zone, too – a signal we highlighted in Monday’s issue that has only fired twice before in recent years: ahead of the Liberation Day crash and at the start of the 2022 bear market.

Japan, Canada, and Britain are in Yellow Zones on Short-Term Health. Australia just flipped Red on that same measure, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index flipped Red a few weeks back.

Overall, the picture across global markets is not encouraging in the short term. And many of these same indexes are Red or Yellow on Long-Term Health, too.

And yet – one index has held Green on Long-Term Health for the past 10 months – the S&P 600.

That’s the small-cap index of 600 U.S. companies with market caps between roughly $1.2 billion and $8 billion.

And in yesterday’s trading, we also saw Green signals in the small-cap Russell 2000, the mid-cap S&P 400, and the Russell 1000.

These green lights are, for now, mostly in smaller companies. And the reason it’s still on connects directly to what happened in interest rate markets over the past week.

Wall Street has shifted its expectations for interest rate cuts…

In Monday’s issue, we walked you through why unprofitable small caps had become one of the most at-risk corners of the market as rate-cut hopes evaporated.

When rates stay high – or are seen as heading higher – smaller companies with weak balance sheets feel the pain first.

That’s because smaller, unprofitable companies depend on cheap borrowing to fund their operations. Unlike large blue-chip companies, they usually can’t lock in long-term fixed rates or issue bonds on favorable terms. So when rates stay high, their borrowing costs climb – and keep climbing. For a company that’s already losing money, that can be an existential threat.

A week ago, the CME FedWatch Tool – a gauge of where traders expect the Fed to set interest at future meetings – was pricing in a 22.5% chance of a rate hike and just a 5% chance of a rate cut at the year-end December meeting.

Yesterday’s relief rally changed that.

As the White House signaled movement toward ending the Iran war, oil prices pulled back, and traders started rolling back their rate-hike bets.

As of this morning, the FedWatch Tool shows a 25.3% chance of at least one rate cut by the December 2026 Fed meeting – up from 5% just a week ago. The odds of a hike have dropped sharply from 18.5% to 0.3%.

That shift matters for small caps more than almost any other corner of the market.

Smaller companies tend to carry more short-term debt than their large-cap counterparts. Those loan interest payments rise and fall directly with the Fed’s benchmark rate. So when rates drop, so does the cost of staying in business.

That means when rates fall – or even when traders start betting on falling rates – those companies get an immediate tailwind in their stock prices.

That’s likely part of the reason the S&P 600 has stayed green while everything else has been selling off. As you’ll see in the chart below, the S&P 600 is just above flat this year while the major large-cap indexes are all in the red.

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But not all small caps are created equal. As we showed on Monday, the profitable ones are holding up best. And the S&P 600 – the index that’s held its Long-Term Health Green status through the volatility this year – is unique in that it only allows new listings from profitable small companies.

The screener below shows five profitable S&P 600 stocks that flashed new Long-Term Health Green signals in just the past day, along with their price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios. (More than two dozen stocks in the index saw new Green signals yesterday, and if you subscribe to our Screener tool, you can easily find those.):

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The pattern reinforces what we said Monday: When rates are uncertain and the market is under pressure, profitable small caps are where the resilience is.

Here we see Primoris Services (PRIM), an engineering and construction firm… Signet Jewelers (SIG), a specialty jewelry retailer… Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), a convention center resort REIT… CarMax (KMX), the country’s largest used-car dealer… and PTC Therapeutics (PTCT), a rare-disease biotech.

Every one of them is profitable, and every one just flashed a new Long-Term Health Green signal. If you’re looking for new ideas in this market, this list is a good place to start.

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