{"id":71872,"date":"2026-04-16T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/markets-rally-on-wall-street-amid-hope-for-end-of-war-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:00:08","slug":"markets-rally-on-wall-street-amid-hope-for-end-of-war-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/markets-rally-on-wall-street-amid-hope-for-end-of-war-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets Rally on Wall Street Amid Hope for End of War in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the war in Iran continues, the markets saw a record-setting day of trading on Wednesday with both the Nasdaq and S&amp;P 500 closing at all-time highs after President Donald Trump said the war in Iran is \u201cvery close to over.\u201d Gas prices remain high, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested they will get into the $3 range some time by the summer. NBC\u2019s Christine Romans joins TODAY to break down what you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the war in Iran continues, the markets saw a record-setting day of trading on Wednesday with both the Nasdaq and S&amp;P 500 closing at all-time highs after President Donald Trump said the war in Iran is \u201cvery close to over.\u201d Gas prices remain high, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested they will get into &#8230; <a title=\"Markets Rally on Wall Street Amid Hope for End of War in Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/markets-rally-on-wall-street-amid-hope-for-end-of-war-in-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Markets Rally on Wall Street Amid Hope for End of War in 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-71872","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\/71872","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=71872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}