{"id":614081,"date":"2026-04-18T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614081\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:29:08","slug":"strait-of-hormuz-completely-open-iran-says-stock-market-continues-its-record-setting-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614081\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Hormuz \u2018completely open\u2019, Iran says; Stock market continues its record-setting rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has declared the Strait of Hormuz open, but the reality on the water is more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>In the hours following the declaration, around 20 vessels began sailing towards the Strait of Hormuz but soon halted, with some turning back, MarineTraffic data showed. It was the largest group of vessels to attempt the transit since Iran effectively closed the strait in response to US-Israeli strikes that began on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear why the ships stopped. The group included three container ships operated by French shipping group CMA CGM, which declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Desh Suraksha, a crude oil tanker, had over the past few hours been moving towards the most narrow part of the strait. But tracking data shows it made a sudden turnaround in the past half hour.<\/p>\n<p>Bhagya Laxmi, a container ship, is also moving back towards the Persian Gulf after spending the past few hours heading towards the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>With Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has declared the Strait of Hormuz open, but the reality on the water is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-614081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}