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Here's your Closing Bell Brief for Monday, March 30. I'm Katherine Sullivan for The Wall Street Journal. U.S. stocks finished mostly lower today as geopolitical tensions drove oil prices higher. The Nasdaq fell 0.7 percent, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.4 percent. The Dow managed a slight gain of 0.1 percent. Investors weighed a rise in crude prices against falling bond yields. Benchmark U.S.
oil futures settled above $100 for the first time since 2022. This surge followed news of a potential military operation regarding Iran. Among individual companies, Alcoa shares jumped over 8 percent today. Investors moved into the aluminum producer as a potential beneficiary of supply disruptions, following reports of Iranian attacks on its competitors.
Cisco shares slumped 15% during the session. The move followed the company's $29 billion deal to buy family-owned Jethro Restaurant Depot. Eli Lilly shares advanced about 1%. The gain came after the company signed a major drug discovery deal with Insilico. The Hong Kong-listed company said the deal could be valued at $2.75 billion.
And shares in major oil companies climbed as rising crude prices boosted the energy sector. ExxonMobil was up 0.3%, and Shell was up 2% in London. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor. We'll have a lot more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast.
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