Weekly Market Pulse: Are We There Yet?

2026-03-16 10:41:00 ET

How can the US reopen the Strait of Hormuz? That is the $64,000 question for investors today, and the Trump administration so far doesn’t have an answer beyond asking other countries for help (which they probably should have done before they started this). While Asian and European countries certainly have an incentive to get the strait open and oil flowing again – they use a lot more oil and gas from the region than the US – none have yet stepped forward. And for good reason. President Trump called for China, Britain, France, Japan, and South Korea to send ships to help open the strait, but there’s a reason we haven’t put our own Navy at risk yet. Sailing through the strait right now just gives Iran more targets. Opening it will likely require US boots on Iranian ground or a revolution, neither of which appears imminent....

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