Global stocks fall as oil prices and bond yields intensify rate concerns
Global equity markets weakened Thursday as rising oil prices, elevated Treasury yields and expectations of tighter monetary policy pressured investor sentiment.
U.S. stock-index futures fell sharply, with Quartz reporting that Dow futures dropped 500 points as oil climbed above $105 a barrel. The Wall Street Journal also reported falling Dow futures following a fresh tanker attack, while Yahoo Finance said U.S. equity indexes remained lower in midday trading as crude prices jumped. The declines extended Wednesday’s losses and pulled U.S. stocks further from recent records, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
Higher Treasury yields were weighing particularly heavily on some of the market’s earlier 2026 winners, MarketWatch reported, even as investor attention remained concentrated on a small group of large technology companies. Barron’s said the small-cap Russell 2000 was nearing …