{"id":589737,"date":"2026-04-17T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589737\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:34:07","slug":"world-shares-mixed-and-oil-falls-on-ceasefire-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589737\/","title":{"rendered":"World shares mixed and oil falls on ceasefire hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

HONG KONG (AP) \u2014 World shares were mixed Friday even after Wall Street set another record, as investors watched for signs of more U.S.-Iran talks and an extension of the ceasefire of the Iran war<\/a> that is expiring next week.<\/p>\n

Oil prices fell Friday, while U.S. futures edged up.<\/p>\n

In early European trading, Britain\u2019s FTSE 100 index was down 0.2% to 10,567.17. France\u2019s CAC 40 was 0.4% higher at 8,293.21, while Germany\u2019s DAX gained 0.6% to 24,308.82.<\/p>\n

Asian stocks were mostly lower. Tokyo\u2019s Nikkei 225 fell 1.8% to 58,475.90 after reaching an all-time high on Thursday. South Korea\u2019s Kospi was 0.6% lower at 6,191.92. <\/p>\n

Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng dropped 0.9% to 26,160.33. Shares of Chinese spatial design software firm Manycore Tech, one of the so-called leading \u201csix little dragons\u201d technology companies of Hangzhou, was up more than 140% on its first day of trading in Hong Kong, fueled by the artificial intelligence boom. The Shanghai Composite index edged down 0.1% to 4,051.43.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s S&P\/ASX 200 lost 0.1%. Taiwan\u2019s Taiex traded 0.9% lower, while India\u2019s Sensex gained 0.7%.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that he\u2019s open to extending<\/a> the two-week ceasefire in the Iran war, and Iran\u2019s U.N. envoy said Tehran remained<\/a> \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d over negotiations with the U.S.<\/p>\n

As optimism over an extended ceasefire grew, oil prices fell early Friday after climbing a day earlier. Brent crude, the international standard, was 3.2% lower at $96.25 per barrel. It had surged roughly 40% since the beginning of the Iran war in late February. Benchmark U.S. crude was down 3.6% to $87.86 a barrel.<\/p>\n

Global energy shocks are growing over impacts of the Iran war, with the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> remaining largely closed while the U.S. imposed a sea blockade<\/a> on Iranian ports. The head of the International Energy Agency told<\/a> The Associated Press on Thursday that Europe has \u201cmaybe six weeks or so\u201d of jet fuel supplies remaining and warned of flight cancellations \u201csoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Wall Street set another record<\/a> with the benchmark S&P 500 closing 0.3% higher at 7,041.28, just a day after it eclipsed its previous all-time high in January. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2% to 48,578.72, and the tech-focused Nasdaq composite added 0.4% to 24,102.70.<\/p>\n

Shares of PepsiCo gained 2.3% following its announcement of better-than-expected quarterly results. U.S. logistics company J.B. Hunt Transport Services was 6.3% higher also on stronger-than-expected results.<\/p>\n

In other dealings, gold was less than 0.1% lower at $4,806.20 an ounce, while silver prices gained 0.8% to $79.36 per ounce.<\/p>\n

The U.S. dollar fell to 159.15 Japanese yen from 159.17 yen. The euro was trading at $1.1796, up from $1.1781.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG (AP) \u2014 World shares were mixed Friday even after Wall Street set another record, as investors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7589,232237,28,12,69620,7905,793,851,801,228242,139727,11160,964,965],"class_list":{"0":"post-589737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-energy-markets","13":"tag-financial-markets","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-inc","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-iran-war","18":"tag-oil-and-gas-industry","19":"tag-pepsico","20":"tag-war-and-unrest","21":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}