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Philip van Doorn
Sat, March 14, 2026 astatine 9:40 AM CDT 4 min read
Any spot of bully news, oregon astatine slightest an easing of disruption, tin alteration a stock-market trend. But adjacent with immoderate signs of beingness for banal prices aboriginal Friday, 80% of stocks successful the S&P 500 were down since the adjacent connected Feb. 27 — the time earlier the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.
From the adjacent connected Feb. 27, the S&P 500 SPX was down 2.6% aboriginal connected Friday, adjacent arsenic it was up 0.5% that morning. Nine of the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 were down from Feb. 27. The 2 exceptions were the vigor sector, which was up 2.7% during the astir two-week period, and the information-technology sector, which was up 0.4%. All terms changes successful this nonfiction exclude dividends.
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Included successful MarketWatch’s unrecorded sum of Friday’s developments was a study successful the Financial Times that France and Italy were negotiating with the authorities of Iran for harmless transition for their ships done the Strait of Hormuz. That helped propulsion the terms of front-month contracts for West Texas Intermediate crude lipid CL00 connected the New York Mercantile Exchange down 1.2% to $94.52 a barrel. But WTI was inactive up 41% from the colony terms of $67.02 connected Feb. 27.
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On Wednesday, Tomi Kilgore explained however and wherefore CF Industries Holdings was the apical performer among the S&P 500 since the onslaught connected Iran began. And adjacent though the banal was down 6.7% successful greeting trading connected Friday, CF Industries was inactive the apical performer successful the U.S. large-cap benchmark scale since Feb. 27.
These 15 stocks among the S&P 500 were showing double-digit gains from Feb. 27 done Friday greeting trading:
| Company | March 13 terms change | Price alteration since Feb. 27 | 2026 terms change | 2025 terms change | Industry |
| CF Industries Holdings CF | -6.7% | 27.5% | 64.1% | -9.4% | Agricultural chemicals |
| LyondellBasell Industries LYB | -3.0% | 25.4% | 66.5% | -41.7% | Commodity chemicals |
| Dow Inc. DOW | -1.1% | 21.0% | 59.0% | -41.7% | Commodity chemicals |
| CrowdStrike Holdings CRWD | 0.7% | 19.6% | -5.1% | 37.0% | Software |
| Marathon Petroleum MPC | 0.6% | 16.7% | 42.3% | 16.6% | Oil & state refining and marketing |
| Datadog DDOG | 1.3% | 15.0% | -5.3% | -4.8% | Software |
| Valero Energy VLO | -0.3% | 14.9% | 44.4% | 32.8% | Oil & state refining and marketing |
| Trade Desk TTD | 2.4% | 14.1% | -28.4% | -67.7% | Software |
| Coinbase Global COIN | 3.6% | 13.8% | -11.5% | -8.9% | Blockchain & cryptocurrency |
| Phillips 66 PSX | 0.7% | 13.6% | 35.8% | 13.3% | Oil & state refining and marketing |
| Palo Alto Networks PANW | 0.5% | 13.4% | -8.3% | 1.2% | Software |
| APA APA | 1.8% | 12.6% | 39.8% | 5.9% | Oil & state refining and marketing |
| Palantir Technologies PLTR | -0.7% | 11.1% | -14.2% | 135.0% | Software |
| Kroger KR | 0.2% | 10.0% | 20.2% | 2.2% | Food retail & distribution |
| Akamai Technologies AKAM | 2.2% | 9.5% | 23.5% | -8.8% | IT services & consulting |
| Source: LSEG | |||||
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