{"id":622377,"date":"2026-04-21T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:36:09","slug":"markets-live-updates-asx-set-to-drop-following-wall-streets-fall-as-uncertainty-over-us-iran-war-weighs-on-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622377\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets live updates: ASX set to drop following Wall Street’s fall as uncertainty over US-Iran war weighs on markets"},"content":{"rendered":"

3m agoTue 21 Apr 2026 at 11:32pm<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5: ACCC v Woolworths\"Yiying<\/p>\n

The ACCC and Woolworths will be back in court today, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n

To get you up to speed,\u00a0Woolworths is being accused by the competition watchdog of misleading customers over discounts on hundreds of items.<\/p>\n

My colleague\u00a0David Taylor has more.<\/p>\n

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51m agoTue 21 Apr 2026 at 10:44pm<\/p>\n

Uncertainty over US-Iran peace talks drives oil up: ANZ\"Yiying<\/p>\n

Oil futures rose amid uncertainty over US-Iran peace talks, seeing equity markets fall and bond yields rise, according to ANZ.<\/p>\n

The S&P 500 was down 0.6%.<\/p>\n

In Europe, the Euro Stoxx 50 closed down 0.9% and the FTSE 100 down 1%.<\/p>\n

The yield on the US 10y
\n Treasury note rose 3bp to 4.29%.<\/p>\n

The active WTI oil future rose 2.8% to $US92.1 per barrel while gold fell 1.6% to $US4,712.9 per\u00a0ounce.<\/p>\n

1h agoTue 21 Apr 2026 at 10:16pm<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5:Finance Report with Alan Kohler\"Yiying<\/p>\n

The oil price fell slightly on global markets on Tuesday, as did the local share market.<\/p>\n

Watch more on The Finance Report with Alan Kohler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3m agoTue 21 Apr 2026 at 11:32pm \ud83c\udfa5: ACCC v Woolworths The ACCC and Woolworths will be back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2001,64,63,166,99,2003,2005,2010,171,2006,2008,65855,1491],"class_list":{"0":"post-622377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-asx","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-dollar","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-dollar","14":"tag-dow-jones","15":"tag-live-update","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-nyse","18":"tag-sp","19":"tag-share-markets","20":"tag-wall-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622377","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=622377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}