{"id":60836,"date":"2026-04-13T07:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaygeopolitical-crisis-triggers-dow-decline-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-rattles-markets\/60836\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:09:42","slug":"dowjonestodaygeopolitical-crisis-triggers-dow-decline-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-rattles-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaygeopolitical-crisis-triggers-dow-decline-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-rattles-markets\/60836\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Geopolitical Crisis Triggers Dow Decline: Strait of Hormuz Blockade Rattles Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The primary driver for the US stock market on <strong>Monday, April 13th, 2026<\/strong>, is the sudden escalation of geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. President <a href=\"https:\/\/thestockmarketwatch.com\/live\/trump-stock-market\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Trump\">Trump<\/a> officially announced a <strong>U.S. Navy blockade of the Strait of Hormuz<\/strong> following the total collapse of peace negotiations in Islamabad over the weekend. This massive geopolitical shock sent <strong>Crude Oil prices surging past $100 per barrel<\/strong>, creating an immediate risk-off environment that pressured broader market indices. Consequently, the <strong>Dow Futures (YM=F)<\/strong> <strong>was down 231.00 (-0.48%) points today<\/strong>, trading at a level of <strong>47,898.00<\/strong> as traders weighed the economic fallout.<\/p>\n<p>Investors reacted sharply to the threat of global energy supply disruptions and the resulting inflationary pressure. While the energy sector saw defensive gains, high-valuation technology and consumer-facing stocks faced significant headwinds. Salesforce (<a href=\"\/stock\/CRM\">CRM<\/a>) <strong>was down 3.57%<\/strong> to <strong>$164.96<\/strong>, leading the session&#39;s losers as enterprise spending concerns mounted. Similarly, Verizon (<a href=\"\/stock\/VZ\">VZ<\/a>) <strong>was down 3.54%<\/strong> to <strong>$46.04<\/strong>, and Nike (<a href=\"\/stock\/NKE\">NKE<\/a>) <strong>was down 3.00%<\/strong> to <strong>$42.62<\/strong>, reflecting deep fears of dampened consumer sentiment and rising logistics costs. International Business Machines (<a href=\"\/stock\/IBM\">IBM<\/a>) also struggled, as it <strong>was down 2.52%<\/strong> to <strong>$230.76<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the prevailing gloom, select high-growth and financial names showed notable resilience. Nvidia (<a href=\"\/stock\/NVDA\">NVDA<\/a>) bucked the downward trend and <strong>was up 2.43%<\/strong> to <strong>$188.63<\/strong>, buoyed by continued institutional demand for AI infrastructure. Amazon (<a href=\"\/stock\/AMZN\">AMZN<\/a>) followed closely with a <strong>2.03% gain<\/strong> to <strong>$238.38<\/strong>, while Goldman Sachs (<a href=\"\/stock\/GS\">GS<\/a>) <strong>was up 1.16%<\/strong> to <strong>$907.80<\/strong> as investors positioned themselves ahead of its upcoming quarterly earnings report. Market participants are now bracing for increased volatility as the geopolitical landscape shifts rapidly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary driver for the US stock market on Monday, April 13th, 2026, is the sudden escalation of geopolitical tensions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"rank_math_schema_Article":[],"rank_math_focus_keyword":[],"rank_math_description":[],"financial_data_references":[],"stock_symbols_mentioned":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[17736],"tags":[75,633,4350,4824,12352],"class_list":["post-60836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snippets-dow-jones","tag-crm","tag-nvda","tag-dow-jones","tag-geopolitics","tag-ymf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}