{"id":73121,"date":"2026-05-06T02:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/oil-prices-ease-and-markets-rally-as-trump-works-towards-deal-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:55:20","slug":"oil-prices-ease-and-markets-rally-as-trump-works-towards-deal-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/oil-prices-ease-and-markets-rally-as-trump-works-towards-deal-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices ease and markets rally as Trump works towards deal with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president briefly pauses \u2018Project Freedom\u2019 operation escorting ships through strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/may\/06\/oil-prices-retreat-global-stocks-hit-record-highs-trump-great-progress-iran-deal-live-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oil prices have eased and stock markets rallied as Donald Trump touted \u201cgreat progress\u201d towards a \u201cfinal agreement\u201d with Iran, while momentum in AI-driven trading accelerated.<\/p>\n<p>The US president said he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/06\/trump-project-freedom-strait-of-hormuz-ships-iran-ceasefire\">briefly pause his \u201cProject Freedom\u201d operation<\/a> escorting ships through the strait of Hormuz, which carries about a fifth of the global oil supplies and has been blockaded by Iran since late February, triggering an energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/06\/oil-prices-ease-and-markets-rally-as-trump-works-towards-deal-with-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president briefly pauses \u2018Project Freedom\u2019 operation escorting ships through strait of Hormuz Business live \u2013 latest updates Oil prices have eased and stock markets rallied as Donald Trump touted \u201cgreat progress\u201d towards a \u201cfinal agreement\u201d with Iran, while momentum in AI-driven trading accelerated. The US president said he would briefly pause his \u201cProject Freedom\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"Oil prices ease and markets rally as Trump works towards deal with Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/oil-prices-ease-and-markets-rally-as-trump-works-towards-deal-with-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oil prices ease and markets rally as Trump works towards deal with 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-73121","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\/73121","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=73121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}