{"id":693136,"date":"2026-05-25T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693136\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:30:07","slug":"australian-shares-advance-on-us-iran-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693136\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian shares advance on US-Iran optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Market rises on deal hopes<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s share market has started the week higher, as hopes for a deal to end the US-Iran conflict bolstered investor confidence and pushed oil prices below $US95 a barrel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/ASX 200 rose 35 points on Monday, up 0.4 per cent, to 8,692, as the broader All Ordinaries gained 38.2 points, or 0.43 per cent, to 8,915.4.<\/p>\n<p>Miners lead local gains\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Miners led the charge as the gold sub-index rallied by almost five per cent, as six of 11 local sectors ended the session higher.<\/p>\n<p>Energy stocks under pressure\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Energy stocks were under pressure as Brent crude dropped below $US94.50 a barrel, weighing on Woodside, Santos, and refinery operators Ampol and Viva.<\/p>\n<p>Aussie dollar edges higher\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Australian dollar is buying 71.65 US cents, up from 71.36 US cents on Friday at 5pm, as improving risk sentiment supported the local currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Market rises on deal hopes Australia&#8217;s share market has started the week higher, as hopes for a deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4764,64,63,99,44],"class_list":["post-693136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-aap","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693136","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=693136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}