Trump brings Iran's oil into play, attack in Kuwait worsens the situation – Trump signals willingness to negotiate – DeepSeek suffers hours-long outage – Coinbase focuses on prediction markets and counters gambling allegations – Doubts about solid-state battery breakthrough slow EV enthusiasm

On Friday, March 27, 2026, weakness on Wall Street continued for the fifth consecutive week. The Dow Jones fell by 1.7% to 45,166.64 points, entering a correction, the S&P 500 also lost 1.7% to 6,368.85 points, and the Nasdaq declined by 2.1% to 20,948.36 points. This kept pressure on the major US indices high, as the market increasingly priced in the effects of the Middle East conflict and the oil price surge. The main burden came from the renewed spike in energy prices. US crude oil of the WTI variety rose by more than 5% on Friday to...