Iran, Oil at $113, and a Market That Can't Decide If It's Scared: Your Weekly Chaos Recap

Ticker ratings and analysis
Ticker	Rating	Entry Price	Current	$ Gain	% Gain
UNH UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC	buy	$310.04	-	-	-
HUM HUMANA INC	hold	$198.30	-	-	-
CVS CVS HEALTH Corp	buy	$78.59	-	-	-
STX Seagate Technology Holdings plc	buy	$491.69	-	-	-
WDC WESTERN DIGITAL CORP	buy	$328.47	-	-	-
AVGO Broadcom Inc.	buy	$346.50	-	-	-
APP AppLovin Corp	buy	$429.80	-	-	-
DAL DELTA AIR LINES, INC.	sell	$69.28	-	-	-
LEVI LEVI STRAUSS & CO	hold	$21.40	-	-	-
KMB KIMBERLY CLARK CORP	sell	$94.50	-	-	-
TSLA Tesla, Inc.	hold	$361.65	-	-	-
HOOD Robinhood Markets, Inc.	buy	$74.55	-	-	-
BK Bank of New York Mellon Corp	buy	$126.51	-	-	-

Ticker

Rating

Entry Price

Current

$ Gain

% Gain

UNH

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC

buy

$310.04

HUM

HUMANA INC

hold

$198.30

CVS

CVS HEALTH Corp

buy

$78.59

STX

Seagate Technology Holdings plc

buy

$491.69

WDC

WESTERN DIGITAL CORP

buy

$328.47

AVGO

Broadcom Inc.

buy

$346.50

APP

AppLovin Corp

buy

$429.80

DAL

DELTA AIR LINES, INC.

sell

$69.28

LEVI

LEVI STRAUSS & CO

hold

$21.40

KMB

KIMBERLY CLARK CORP

sell

$94.50

TSLA

Tesla, Inc.

hold

$361.65

HOOD

Robinhood Markets, Inc.

buy

$74.55

Bank of New York Mellon Corp

buy

$126.51

Ticker ratings and analysis
Ticker	Rating	Entry Price	Current	$ Gain	% Gain
UNH UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC	buy	$310.04	-	-	-
HUM HUMANA INC	hold	$198.30	-	-	-
CVS CVS HEALTH Corp	buy	$78.59	-	-	-
STX Seagate Technology Holdings plc	buy	$491.69	-	-	-
WDC WESTERN DIGITAL CORP	buy	$328.47	-	-	-
AVGO Broadcom Inc.	buy	$346.50	-	-	-
APP AppLovin Corp	buy	$429.80	-	-	-
DAL DELTA AIR LINES, INC.	sell	$69.28	-	-	-
LEVI LEVI STRAUSS & CO	hold	$21.40	-	-	-
KMB KIMBERLY CLARK CORP	sell	$94.50	-	-	-
TSLA Tesla, Inc.	hold	$361.65	-	-	-
HOOD Robinhood Markets, Inc.	buy	$74.55	-	-	-
BK Bank of New York Mellon Corp	buy	$126.51	-	-	-

Let's start with the elephant — or rather, the entire circus — in the room. WTI crude hit ~$113/barrel, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, and President Trump spent the week issuing escalating deadlines that had markets doing a full Olympic gymnastics routine. The Dow swung from -400 to -85 in a single session. The VIX sits at 26 — and PNC's chief strategist thinks that's actually too low given a worst-case scenario (think: Kharg Island strike, Gulf refinery damage) isn't fully priced in. Markets are rational until they aren't, folks.

Meanwhile, the week's cleanest trade hiding in plain sight: managed care. $UNH ripped +9.4% after CMS agreed to boost 2027 Medicare Advantage payments by 2.5% above initial proposals — its best single day since August. $PARA was the top S&P 500 gainer at +11% after locking in equity syndication deals with sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar for its Warner Bros Discovery acquisition. Sovereign wealth money chasing media assets during a war week is a sentence I didn't expect to type.

On the storage front, Morgan Stanley upgraded $STX with a new price target of $582 (from $468), citing AI-driven hyperscaler demand — shares jumped 5.6%. Jim Cramer's key thesis remains intact: the March 30th bottom was rate-driven, not fundamentals-driven, after Powell's Harvard speech killed rate-hike bets. Until Iran resolves, every rally is a short squeeze wearing a trench coat pretending to be a bull market.

Iran, Oil at $113, and a Market That Can't Decide If It's Scared: Your Weekly Chaos Recap

Ticker Ratings

Iran, Oil at $113, and a Market That Can't Decide If It's Scared: Your Weekly Chaos Recap

Ticker Ratings

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