The tape signed off at seven thousand one twenty-six.

The Dow finished at 49,447.43, the Nasdaq Composite at 24,468.48, and the Russell 2000 at 2,776.90 — all in one syndicated index table.

The same Friday table carried by WKYC prints the Dow at +1.8%, the Nasdaq at +1.5%, and the Russell 2000 at +2.1%, with the small-cap index adding 57.30 points on the session.

Oil prices dropped back to early-war levels while equities raced to another record.

Oil prices dropped back to where they were in the early days of the Iran war, and U.S. stocks raced to another record Friday after Iran said the Strait of Hormuz is open again for commercial tankers carrying crude from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide.

WTI settled at $82.59 after a −9.4% session; Brent fell 9.1% to $90.38.

AP's Friday dispatch quotes the benchmark moves verbatim — a clean handle for how much war-risk premium came out of crude in a single afternoon.

AP frames Friday as the cap on a third straight week of big gains — the longest such streak since Halloween.

The syndicated index roundup also lists the S&P 500 up 280.56 points, or 4.1%, year-to-date through Friday's close.

Netflix slid 9.7% even after beating profit expectations — the full-year revenue outlook stayed flat enough to disappoint the tape.

AP pairs the streaming drawdown with a board transition note: co-founder Reed Hastings is set to leave the board when his term expires in June.

United Airlines rose 7.1% and Southwest climbed 5.1% as cheaper crude eased the cost curve for carriers.

AP reminds readers the IEA had just warned Europe may have only weeks of jet-fuel runway left — context that makes airline pops read less like noise and more like a stress-release valve.

The 10-year Treasury yield sank to 4.24% from 4.32% late Thursday, per AP's Friday wrap.

That move sits alongside the Fed-cut narrative AP raises when oil eases inflation pressure — distinct from the latest DGS10 daily print in FRED, which still shows 4.32% on April 16 until government tables catch Friday's close.

Friday's 84.78-point rally captured about 27.4% of the S&P's entire 309.17-point weekly gain.

FRED's last posted VIX close is 17.94 on April 16, 2026 — a slow bleed lower from the mid-April prints below.

Iran says Hormuz is open for commercial vessels while the U.S. Navy blockade stays “in full force” until a deal lands.

Europe's majors jumped after Hormuz headlines while Asian indexes had already gone home flat or down.

France's CAC 40 rose 2%, Germany's DAX 2.3%, but Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 1.8% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.9% because trading wrapped before the announcement.

The Fed's published calendar still lists the April FOMC across April 28-29 with a press conference on day two.

BEA still schedules advance Q1 2026 GDP — plus income and PCE tables — for April 30.

That morning becomes a dual catalyst once markets are past the Patriots' Day Monday session: growth and consumption data landing together.

Patriots' Day is Monday, April 20, 2026 in Massachusetts and Maine — but The Providence Journal reports the NYSE, Nasdaq, and bond markets stay open.

timeanddate.com lists the Boston Marathon the same civic Monday, a human-flow overlay that can thin local staffing even when the national tape is live.

Russell 2000's +2.1% session outran the S&P's +1.2% — leadership from the lower half of the cap stack.

Bar width maps 1.2% / 2.1% ≈ 57% of the Russell's percentage move.

FRED's first 2026 print for the S&P 500 index was 6,858.47 on January 2 versus Friday's 7,126.06 cash close in AP's wrap.

Government daily series often lag syndicated cash tables by a session; here the January anchor is FRED while the Friday mark is AP's closing paragraph — useful paired bookends for thinking about YTD lift.

Bitcoin spot check: CoinGecko's public API printed $74,813 per coin at generation time.

Crypto keeps ticking while equities rest — a cross-asset temperature read for Sunday night.