{"id":68539,"date":"2026-03-09T16:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/us-stock-markets-close-on-high-after-iran-war-drove-oil-prices-above-100-a-barrel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:54:48","slug":"us-stock-markets-close-on-high-after-iran-war-drove-oil-prices-above-100-a-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/us-stock-markets-close-on-high-after-iran-war-drove-oil-prices-above-100-a-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"US stock markets close on high after Iran war drove oil prices above $100 a barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Markets settled after Trump claimed US-Israel war with Iran is \u2018very complete\u2019, bringing oil prices down to $85 a barrel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/09\/how-high-could-oil-go-and-what-might-the-global-economic-fallout-be\">How high could oil prices go \u2013 and what might the global economic fallout be?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US stock markets closed on a high after oil prices swung wildly on Monday, reaching a four-year high in the morning that rattled Asian and European markets before settling down once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> said the US-Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">war<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a> is \u201cvery complete\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After surging past $100 a barrel on Monday morning, oil prices came down to $85 a barrel by the time that US stock markets closed in the afternoon. US stocks leaped at a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/weijia\/status\/2031086856679412042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2031086856679412042%7Ctwgr%5E02a866b6f0a5036581fae37403e1cf4a09f5ddb8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2026%2F03%2F09%2Ftrump-iran-war-end.html\">report<\/a> from a CBS News reporter that Trump thinks \u201cthe war is very complete, pretty much\u201d because \u201cthey have no navy, no communications, they\u2019ve got no air force\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/09\/iran-war-drives-oil-price-above-100-a-barrel-for-first-time-since-2022\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markets settled after Trump claimed US-Israel war with Iran is \u2018very complete\u2019, bringing oil prices down to $85 a barrel How high could oil prices go \u2013 and what might the global economic fallout be? US stock markets closed on a high after oil prices swung wildly on Monday, reaching a four-year high in the &#8230; <a title=\"US stock markets close on high after Iran war drove oil prices above $100 a barrel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/us-stock-markets-close-on-high-after-iran-war-drove-oil-prices-above-100-a-barrel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US stock markets close on high after Iran war drove oil prices above $100 a barrel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}