Stock Market Today: S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq Futures Gain As Trump Calls Iran's New Leaders 'Very Reasonable'

Stock Market Live March 30, 2026: S&P 500 (SPY) Up on President Trump Optimism

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Stock Market Today: S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq Futures Gain As Trump Calls Iran's New Leaders 'Very Reasonable'

Editor’s Note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs and the headline were updated in the story. U.S. stock futures rose on Monday following Friday’s sharp sell-off. Futures of the major benchmark indices were higher after they entered the correction territory last week, falling more than 10% below their 52-week highs. The markets head into the truncated trading week with Good Friday on April 3; however, investors will watch out for March…

Here Comes the Bear Market

The Dow and Nasdaq indexes both closed Friday in correction territory—a market dip of 10 percent from the last peak—and the S&P 500 wasn’t far behind. We’re now likely headed into a bear market, which is a dip of 20 percent. Probably we’d be there already if the market didn’t build into its calculations that President Donald Trump will reverse himself on Iran to prop up stock prices, a doctrine known as TACO (for “Trump always chickens out”). Be…