{"id":752391,"date":"2026-07-09T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:51:08","slug":"world-shares-are-mixed-and-oil-prices-slip-as-iran-attacks-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752391\/","title":{"rendered":"World shares are mixed and oil prices slip as Iran attacks escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"

HONG KONG (AP) \u2014 World shares were mixed and oil prices slipped on Thursday as conflict escalated in the Middle East, with Iran and the U.S.<\/a> launching fresh attacks.<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. futures were little changed. <\/p>\n

The United States launched more airstrikes on Iran, and Iran responded by firing at Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said their temporary ceasefire was \u201cover.\u201d The prospects for a lasting peace remained uncertain, with high-level talks seeking to salvage an interim agreement<\/a> on ending the war still underway, according to a regional intelligence official involved in the mediation efforts who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the delicate behind-the-scenes negotiations. <\/p>\n

In early European trading, Britain\u2019s FTSE 100 fell 0.6% to 10,422.75. France\u2019s CAC 40 was up 0.3% to 8,280.05, while Germany\u2019s DAX traded 0.3% higher at 24,963.05.<\/p>\n

Tokyo\u2019s Nikkei 225 reversed some of its losses from earlier in the week, gaining 1.4% to 67,743.85. Chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron jumped 5.5%, and artificial intelligence-focused investment holding firm SoftBank Group slipped 0.1%.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s Kospi index zigzagged and ended 0.6% higher at 7,291.91 despite falling earlier in the day. Samsung Electronics was up 0.2% on Thursday, while memory chipmaker SK Hynix gained 5.3%.<\/p>\n

The Shanghai Composite index traded 1.7% higher at 4,036.59, even as China\u2019s producer price index rose 4.1% in June compared to a year earlier. That was higher than May\u2019s 3.9%, as some economists attribute higher inflation to impacts from the Iran war.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng shed 0.7% to 24,030.18. Shares of Apple supplier Luxshare fell 1.6% in its trading debut in Hong Kong. Chinese AI company Zhipu, or Z.ai, surged 11.3% after it said it\u2019s raising about $4 billion through a share sale.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s S&P\/ASX 200 shed 0.3% to 8,762.50.<\/p>\n

Taiwan\u2019s Taiex fell 0.8%, and India\u2019s Sensex climbed 0.6%.<\/p>\n

Oil prices fell back early Thursday, with Brent crude, the international standard, falling 0.4% to $77.69 per barrel. It briefly topped $80 on Wednesday. Before the Iran war began, Brent oil was trading at around $72 a barrel. Earlier optimism over an interim peace deal recently brought it back to prewar levels.<\/p>\n

Benchmark U.S. crude also declined 0.4%, to $73.21 a barrel.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, Wall Street\u2019s benchmark S&P 500 ended 0.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 1.1%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite edged up 0.2%.<\/p>\n

U.S. chipmaker Broadcom surged 4.8% after Apple committed to a multiyear partnership with the company.<\/p>\n

In other dealings, the U.S. dollar fell to 162.43 Japanese yen from 162.59 yen. The euro was trading at $1.1427, up from $1.1417.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG (AP) \u2014 World shares were mixed and oil prices slipped on Thursday as conflict escalated in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7589,232237,517,28,12,69620,7905,793,851,801,1570,228242,129,139727,15275,11380,52516,11158,65222,964,965],"class_list":["post-752391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy-markets","tag-financial-markets","tag-general-news","tag-inc","tag-iran","tag-iran-government","tag-iran-war","tag-middle-east","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-qatar","tag-semiconductor-manufacturing","tag-softbank-group-corp","tag-stocks-and-bonds","tag-tokyo-electron-ltd","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752391","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=752391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}