{"id":391267,"date":"2026-04-14T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/391267\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:05:08","slug":"stock-markets-gain-and-oil-falls-on-hopes-of-renewed-us-iran-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/391267\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock markets gain and oil falls on hopes of renewed US-Iran talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

By&nbspDoloresz Katanich<\/a>&nbspwith&nbspAP<\/p>\n

\n Published on 14\/04\/2026 – 8:43 GMT+2\u2022Updated
\n 9:48\n <\/p>\n

Trading on Tuesday began with high expectations that the Iran war is inching to a close, fuelling gains across major stock markets and pushing oil back under $100 a barrel.<\/p>\n

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Investors remained hopeful for a lasting de-escalation of the conflict, now in its seventh week, as the US and Iran are said to be weighing a second round of talks before a temporary ceasefire agreement expires next week. <\/p>\n

The US military on Monday began a blockade of Iranian ports as Washington steps up pressure on Tehran, following weekend ceasefire talks between the two sides that ended without agreement.<\/p>\n

Trump also suggested on Monday that the United States is still willing to engage with Tehran. <\/p>\n

“I can tell you that we’ve been called by the other side,” he said, without elaborating further.<\/p>\n

Oil prices continued to pull back on Tuesday from earlier gains. <\/p>\n

Brent crude, the international standard, was down 0.8% at $98.62 per barrel, nearing 8 am CET. <\/p>\n

It reached nearly $104 early on Monday amid Iran war concerns and limited progress in weekend ceasefire talks.<\/p>\n

Benchmark US crude fell 1.7% early Tuesday to $97.40 a barrel.<\/p>\n

The global energy shock stemming from maritime traffic disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil is typically transported, has led to surging fuel prices and threatens to push up inflation in many countries and weigh on economic growth.<\/p>\n

Stock markets are hungry for good news<\/p>\n

Investors were quick to recover after the dismal first trading day on Monday. European markets were mostly up on Tuesday morning, with London’s FTSE 100 having gained 0.3% soon after the opening, the CAC 40 in Paris was up by 0.6%, and the DAX in Frankfurt increased by 1.1%.<\/p>\n

In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 was up 2.4%, while South Korea’s Kospi jumped more than 3% to 6,004.30.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.4% to 25,759.75, while the Shanghai Composite climbed 0.6% to 4,010.45.<\/p>\n

This comes as China on Tuesday reported worse-than-expected export growth. <\/p>\n

The world’s second-largest economy expanded its exports by 2.5% in March year on year, significantly slower than the previous two months as uncertainties rose from the Iran war and its impact on energy prices and global demand.<\/p>\n

The March data missed analysts’ estimates and was sharply down from the 21.8% export growth recorded in January and February.<\/p>\n

Wall Street rose on Monday. The S&P 500 gained 1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.6% and the Nasdaq Composite added 1.2%.<\/p>\n

Shares in Goldman Sachs fell 1.9% despite the investment bank posting better-than-expected quarterly profits.<\/p>\n

In other trading, gold and silver prices rose on Tuesday. Gold was up 0.6% at $4,796.60 (\u20ac4,219.62) an ounce, while silver gained 1.8% to $77.05 (\u20ac67.80) per ounce.<\/p>\n

The US dollar fell to \u00a5159.08 from \u00a5159.45. The euro was trading at $1.1766, up from $1.1759.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&nbspDoloresz Katanich&nbspwith&nbspAP Published on 14\/04\/2026 – 8:43 GMT+2\u2022Updated 9:48 Trading on Tuesday began with high expectations that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,117780,43,6807,22673,114994,40,38,41,39,2966],"class_list":{"0":"post-391267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-iran-war","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-oil-prices","12":"tag-stock-exchange","13":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-world-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391267","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=391267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}