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Weekly Market Commentary: Stocks Fall With Middle East, Fed in Focus
09/14/26
Sunflower Bank Weekly Market Commentary: September 14, 2026
Each week, our Investment Committee analyzes the U.S. stock market and bond market activity and news of the previous week, summarizing their findings into a weekly market update report. The key points of this week's commentary, "Stocks Fall With Middle East, Fed in Focus," include:
- Equities declined in a holiday-shortened week as surging oil prices, rising Treasury yields, and a hot CPI print weighed on risk appetite ahead of this week's FOMC meeting. The S&P 500 declined -0.8%, the Nasdaq 100 fell -0.6%, and the Russell 2000 dropped -2.4%. Bond yields continued to climb higher in response to higher energy prices and the inflation data.
- Geopolitics dominated the tape last week. West Texas Intermediate crude oil closed above $100 per barrel for the first time in five month as renewed fighting in the Middle East pushed energy prices higher.
- On the economic front, a hot August CPI print put further pressure on the Federal Open Market Committee to raise the overnight lending rate at its meeting this week.
- US Treasury Bond yields rose steadily throughout the week to hit fresh highs. The yield on the 10-year Treasury Bond rose +18 basis points last week and nearly closed above 5% - a closing level that hasn’t been reached since 2007. Bond yields have been on a steady grind higher since the onset of the Iran war as higher energy prices, elevated inflation, solid economic growth, and uncertainty over fiscal and monetary policy have pushed up rates.
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