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Public.com presents The Rundown, your daily market update in under 10 minutes.

My name is Zaid Admani, and today is Monday, March 23rd.

In today's episode, we'll tell you what Trump just said that has the markets really excited.

We'll also tell you why the Pentagon is going all in on Palantir's AI.

Then stick around to the end of the show to find out why movie theaters might be back.

We got a great show for you today.

Let's go.

Well, stocks are coming off their fourth straight week of losses with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ both falling more than 2% last week.

The last time the markets had a losing streak like this was back in April of last year when we were all talking about tariffs.

Now the conversation

is all about the war with Iran and oil prices.

We are now in week four of the war.

The Strait of Hormuz is still mostly closed and energy infrastructure is still being attacked across the Gulf region, causing a supply shock and sending prices to the highest level in years.

International Brent crude closed last week at $112 a barrel and the USWTI was sitting around $98 a barrel.