What’s News in Markets: Gold Tarnishes, Not-So-Super Micro, Micron Peak?

市场新闻速递:金价失色,非超级微处理器,美光科技峰回路转?

WSJ Your Money Briefing

2026-03-21

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Why are investors turning away from gold? And why weren’t Micron Technology’s blowout earnings good enough? Plus, why is Super Micro’s co-founder in hot water with U.S. prosecutors? Host Hannah Erin Lang discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • but it will be back with more personal finance information for you in the future.

  • Until then, here's the news moving markets this week.

  • Hey listeners, it's Saturday, March 21st.

  • I'm Hannah Aaron-Lang for The Wall Street Journal.

  • And this is What's News in Markets, our look at the biggest stock moves of the week

  • and the news that drove them.

  • Let's get to it.

  • The vibes in financial markets did not get much better this week.

  • There were a lot of big losers, including gold and the companies

  • that mine the precious metal, chipmaker Micron Technology in spite of its eye-popping earnings,

  • and Supermicro Computer, whose co-founder got on the wrong side of U.S. prosecutors this week.

  • But more on that later.

  • First, let's talk about oil, which is really all

  • that anyone is talking about since the war in Iran began three weeks ago.

  • At the beginning of the week, U.S. stocks shrugged off energy concerns, rising with hopes

  • that perhaps a coalition of countries would work together to open the Strait of Hormuz,