If you thought last week was going to be a quiet lead-up to Easter, the markets had other plans. The U.S.-Iran conflict kept traders on edge from the jump, turning every headline into a potential catalyst and every session into a sentiment guessing game. Safe-haven flows, ceasefire hopes, diplomatic signals, hawkish speeches — it was all on the table, sometimes within the same 24-hour window. Throw in a blowout U.S. jobs report that nobody saw coming, a surprise Swiss manufacturing PMI that broke the mold, and an RBA that confirmed it's not done hiking just yet, and you had a week where macro fundamentals and geopolitics were constantly fighting for the wheel. The dollar clawed its way to a net positive finish, the yen flexed its safe-haven muscle, and the kiwi had absolutely no fun. Let's break it all down.