US stocks close down as oil spikes 12%, job market weakens

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US stocks experienced a decline due to a weak job market and a surge in oil prices, with the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq dropping by 1%, 1.33%, and 1.6% respectively. Despite this, investors seem resilient and long-term focused, with some stocks experiencing significant gains. The market is closely watching the Federal Reserve's next move on interest rates.

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Market impact analysis based on bearish sentiment with 85% confidence.

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Bearish
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85%
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Short Term

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STORY: Wall Street's main indexes tumbled on Friday, with the Dow dropping almost one percent, the S&P 500 shedding one-and-a-third percent for its biggest weekly percentage drop since October, and the Nasdaq losing about 1.6%.A disappointing payrolls report from the Labor Department on Friday intensified worries that the U.S. economy could be cooling just as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East push oil prices sharply higher...with U.S. crude futures climbing more than 12% on Friday to more than $90 a barrel.That mix complicates the picture for the Federal Reserve and the future path of interest rates.Still, Friday's stock reaction shows investors are not quite panicking yet, said Alexander Morris, CEO and chief investment officer at F/m Investments."We're seeing a relatively small pullback given the size and scale of geopolitical tensions and what would have been an otherwise somewhat troubling jobs number that came out this morning. But investors seem pretty resilient in the grand scheme of things. But we're looking at not 'buy-the-dips' investors. We're seeing just long term investors who seem to be pushing forward in markets. If we were worried as a collective, we would see 3, 4% shut off today. We would have seen that every day this week. We didn't.”Stocks on the move Friday included BlackRock, which dropped more than 7% after the world's largest asset manager said it has limited withdrawals from a flagship debt fund after a surge in redemption requests. The move comes as investor worries mount around the $2 trillion private credit industry.Shares of Western Alliance fell about 8.5% after the lender said it had sued investment bank Jefferies for not making a payment for loans tied to bankrupt auto parts supplier First Brands Group. Shares of Jefferies plunged more than 13%.On the upside, shares of Marvell Technology jumped more than 18% after the chipmaker forecast fiscal 2028 revenue above estimates.

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Original article published by Yahoo Finance on March 7, 2026.
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