{"id":69719,"date":"2026-03-23T04:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/stock-markets-plunge-after-trumps-ultimatum-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:54:55","slug":"stock-markets-plunge-after-trumps-ultimatum-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/stock-markets-plunge-after-trumps-ultimatum-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock markets plunge after Trump\u2019s ultimatum on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares slump in Asia and Europe, gold slides and investors brace for higher oil prices after US president\u2019s threat<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/mar\/23\/stock-markets-gold-dollar-trump-iran-ultimatum-uk-economy-growth-borrowing-costs-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/23\/middle-east-crisis-live-iea-chief-says-iran-war-energy-crunch-worse-than-1970s-oil-crises-and-ukraine-war-combined\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Global stock markets dropped sharply on Monday after Donald Trump threatened to \u201cobliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s power plants unless the strait of Hormuz is opened.<\/p>\n<p>Stock markets in Asia and Europe slumped at the start of the week. Japan\u2019s Nikkei share index dropping by 3.4%, China\u2019s CSI 300 down 2.8%, and the South Korean Kospi fell 6.5%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/23\/stock-markets-donald-trump-iran-gold-oil-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares slump in Asia and Europe, gold slides and investors brace for higher oil prices after US president\u2019s threat Business live \u2013 latest updates Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Global stock markets dropped sharply on Monday after Donald Trump threatened to \u201cobliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s power plants unless the strait of Hormuz is opened. Stock markets &#8230; <a title=\"Stock markets plunge after Trump\u2019s ultimatum on Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/stock-markets-plunge-after-trumps-ultimatum-on-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Stock markets plunge after Trump\u2019s ultimatum on Iran\">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-69719","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\/69719","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=69719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}