{"id":134570,"date":"2026-05-28T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/134570\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:37:25","slug":"ftse-100-live-stocks-dive-as-oil-jumps-on-us-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/134570\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Live: Stocks dive as oil jumps on US-Iran strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tThursday 28 May 2026 6:30 am<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThursday 28 May 2026 10:08 am\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"742\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/01KSN6AZ4R3CGH042F6TD7BG45.jpeg\" class=\"media \" alt=\"Breaking news graphic with bold headline and dynamic background in business and general news context\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog.<\/p>\n<p>The US and Iran are back to exchanging fire in a major blow to hopes of peace in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran struck an American airbase overnight in its retaliation for the US striking a military site that it said\u00a0\u201cposed a threat to US forces and commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has insisted that  \u201caggression will not go unanswered\u201d and threatened a \u201cmore decisive\u201d response.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It comes despite emerging details of a supposed peace deal by Iranian state media, though this was also quickly quelled by US officials, who branded it a \u201ccomplete fabrication\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Oil was back on the move higher amid the latest tensions with Brent crude climbing towards $97 per barrel, recovering losses from the previous session as negotiations looked to be breaking down.<\/p>\n<p>Trump held a cabinet meeting on Wednesday where Iran dominated the agenda. He accused Iran of trying to stall on a deal until the November mid-term elections.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/ftse-100-live-stocks-to-jump-amid-good-signs-of-us-iran-peace-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">As it happened: Stocks jump on peace hopes; Reeves hit by falling retail sales and surge in borrowing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey thought they were going to outwait me, you know, \u2018we\u2019ll outwait him, he\u2019s got the mid-terms\u2019,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that current attempts to reach a deal had thus far failed because \u201cwe\u2019re not satisfied with it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we will be,\u201d Trump added. \u201cEither that, or we will just have to finish the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, he made a claim that the Strait of Hormuz would soon be \u201copen to everybody\u201d with the US \u201cgoing to watch over it\u2026 but nobody\u2019s going to control it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest this has been one of the key parts of contention in negotiations \u2013 along with Iran\u2019s nuclear programme \u2013 with Tehran refusing to give up control of the waterway.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be bringing you all the latest on this and more.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a few of our top headlines this morning<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/ftse-100-live-stocks-to-dip-as-iran-threatens-us-after-violating-ceasefire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">As it happened: US-Iran peace hopes sends oil lower; Brits handed energy price cap blow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The liveblog has ended.<\/p>\n<p>No liveblog updates yet.<\/p>\n<p>Load more<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSimilarly tagged content: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSections\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCategories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPeople &amp; Organisations\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday 28 May 2026 6:30 am \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Thursday 28 May 2026 10:08 am Good morning and welcome back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[14791,19355,328,38,1170,2272,44018,44019,16575,37232,44020,44021,44022,44023,44024,44025,44026,44027,44028,44029,44030,44802,34,342,1986,688,7596,3994,44803,40758,2220,44032,44033,44034,44804,44035,30544,207,49,816,187,42,213,123,44036,12130,44037,1395,44038,261,5345,44039,44805,2480,1097,7485,81,864,2676,12258,795,2059,30562,44806],"class_list":["post-134570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-ftse","tag-banking","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-ftse-100","tag-ftse-100-boss","tag-ftse-150","tag-ftse-250","tag-ftse-350","tag-ftse-aim","tag-ftse-all-share","tag-ftse-fledgling","tag-ftse-main-market","tag-ftse-shares","tag-ftse-small-cap","tag-ftse-stocks","tag-ftse-trading","tag-ftse-update","tag-ftse100","tag-ftse250","tag-house-prices","tag-iran","tag-iran-conflict","tag-iran-crisis","tag-keir-starmer","tag-labour","tag-labour-party","tag-london-house-prices","tag-london-stock-exchange","tag-market","tag-market-cap","tag-market-conditions","tag-market-dominance","tag-market-drop","tag-market-economy","tag-market-share","tag-markets","tag-middle-east","tag-middle-east-conflict","tag-middle-east-war","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-oil-and-gas-services","tag-oil-crisis","tag-oil-major","tag-oil-majors","tag-oil-price-cap","tag-oil-prices","tag-oil-refinery","tag-oil-sector","tag-oil-services","tag-oil-supply","tag-oil-tanker","tag-oil-well","tag-politics","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-rachel-reeves","tag-retail","tag-stock-market","tag-uk-economy","tag-uk-government","tag-uk-oil-and-gas"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}