{"id":609125,"date":"2026-04-27T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:26:12","slug":"live-updates-irans-top-diplomat-in-russia-for-putin-meeting-as-us-peace-talks-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609125\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Iran\u2019s top diplomat in Russia for Putin meeting as US peace talks stall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Oil prices are climbing today, after US officials cancelled a planned trip to Pakistan over the weekend for peace talks, dimming hopes for a swift end to a conflict that has choked off much of the Middle East\u2019s vast oil and natural gas supplies from global markets.\n <\/p>\n

\n Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, is up 2.5% to nearly $108 a barrel \u2014 it\u2019s highest level in three weeks, when the current ceasefire between the United States and Iran started. WTI, the US benchmark, is up 2.2% to $96.4 a barrel.\n <\/p>\n

\n As the conflict nears the two-month mark, Goldman Sachs raised its oil price forecasts for the fourth quarter of this year to $90 a barrel for Brent, from $80 previously. The bank sees WTI at $83 a barrel, versus $75 previously.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a note Sunday, the bank\u2019s analysts warned of \u201clarger\u201d economic risks because of \u201cupside risks to oil prices, unusually high refined product prices, products shortages risks, and the unprecedented scale of the shock.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Iran warned Sunday that the Strait of Hormuz, ordinarily a conduit for around a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and natural gas supply, will not return<\/a> to its pre-war state. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump reiterated that the war could \u201ccome to an end very soon.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Equity investors appear to be betting on that outcome, buoyed too by optimism over artificial intelligence, with a raft of major tech companies reporting earnings this week. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed at record highs Friday, although US futures are flat this morning.\n <\/p>\n

\n In Asia, most major stock indexes closed strongly higher today, although Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng finished slightly lower. Stock markets in Europe are modestly higher in morning trade.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe lack of progress on talks has failed to dent investor optimism,\u201d said Neil Wilson, an investor strategist at Saxo Bank.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil prices are climbing today, after US officials cancelled a planned trip to Pakistan over the weekend for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,29430,100016,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-609125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-hnk","tag-intl","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609125","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=609125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}