{"id":370278,"date":"2026-04-02T00:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/370278\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:17:11","slug":"australian-shares-to-rise-on-iran-peace-hopes-bhp-group-finalizes-silver-streaming-agreement-with-wheaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/370278\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Shares to Rise on Iran Peace Hopes; BHP Group Finalizes Silver Streaming Agreement With Wheaton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a97821316e4cd797cc43244838725b96.png\" alt=\"MT Newswires - Shutterstock\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"403\" width=\"768\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> MT Newswires -Shutterstock      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Australian shares are poised to rise on Thursday, tracking gains in US markets and a drop in oil prices amid growing optimism that the Iran conflict may be approaching a resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, the S&amp;P 500, the Nasdaq Composite, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7%, 1.2%, and 0.5%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the macroeconomy, Australia&#8217;s international trade in goods and job vacancies reports are due at 11:30 am Sydney time.<\/p>\n<p>In corporate news, BHP Group (ASX:BHP) completed its long-term silver streaming agreement with Wheaton Precious Metals International and received upfront consideration of $4.3 billion from Wheaton.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Star Resources (ASX:NST) sold 381,000 ounces of gold in the March quarter, bringing year-to-date production to 1.1 million ounces and keeping the company on track to exceed its revised fiscal 2026 guidance of 1.5 million ounces.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s benchmark index rose 2.2% or 190 points to close at 8,671.80 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MT Newswires -Shutterstock Australian shares are poised to rise on Thursday, tracking gains in US markets and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[972,178178,114,85,46,1008],"class_list":["post-370278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-australia","tag-bhp-group","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nasdaq-composite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}