{"id":247178,"date":"2026-08-13T07:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/247178\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:07:20","slug":"ftse-100-live-stocks-to-rise-as-strait-of-hormuz-tensions-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/247178\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Live: Stocks to rise as Strait of Hormuz tensions persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tThursday 13 August 2026 6:46 am<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThursday 13 August 2026 7:17 am\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"742\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Donald-Trump.jpg\" class=\"media \" alt=\"Donald Trump, wearing a blue suit and tie, speaking with his hand resting on a surface indoors.\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\"  \/>\t\tWelcome back to City AM&#8217;s FTSE 100 live blog (Jacquelyn Martin via AP\/PA Images)\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome back to City AM liveblog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oil prices are hovering around the $88 per barrel mark as investors asses the conflicting rhetoric over the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116431297579272777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Trump<\/a> said the US had \u201ctotal control\u201d over the narrow waterway as negotiations remain in deadlock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Iran\u00a0has pushed back on these claims with the nation\u2019s Persian Gulf Strait Authority stating \u201cthe Strait of Hormuz remains blocked,\u201d adding it will not be opened until Iran\u2019s conditions are accepted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe successive claims and tweets by American officials about lifting the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz do not change reality,\u201d it said on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump had earlier said that \u201cpraise be to Allah\u201d, Washington has \u201ctotal control over the Strait of Hormuz\u201d, adding: \u201cI THINK WE WILL KEEP IT!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It follows reports that Treasury officials have briefed the Prime Minister that the UK economy will barely grow next year if disruption to the Strait of Hormuz linked to the Iran war continues until the end of 2026.<\/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-slide-as-iran-and-us-clash-over-control-of-strait-of-hormuz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">As it happened: FTSE 100 falls as Iran and US clash over Strait of Hormuz; Oil stockpiles \u2018rapidly depleting\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Internal modelling from the Treasury suggests UK GDP could see growth as low as 0.3 per cent in 2027, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The forecast suggested UK economy could grow by 0.9 per cent this year if there is no permanent peace deal between the US-Israeli forces and Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That would miss the 1.1 per cent prediction from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) earlier this year. The OBR had also pencilled in 1.6 per cent GDP growth in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The more extreme scenario also indicated that Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation could peak at 4.3 per cent in the first quarter of next year, with disruption in the Strait of Hormuz likely to keep oil and gas prices elevated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the global energy watchdog warned oil stockpiles were \u201crapidly depleting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ll be bringing you the latest market updates and analysis.<\/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-slide-on-new-tensions-in-strait-of-hormuz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">As it happened: Stocks rise despite new tensions in Strait of Hormuz; Oil price climbs<\/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 13 August 2026 6:46 am \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Thursday 13 August 2026 7:17 am Welcome back to City AM&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[14791,19355,328,68733,57591,1170,147,2272,44018,44017,44019,16575,37232,44020,44021,44022,44023,44024,44025,44026,44027,44028,44029,44030,9129,68734,68735,12855,68736,68737,34,2220,44031,44032,44033,68392,44034,44035,207,42,42523,213,123,44036,12130,44037,1395,44038,261,44039,44805,864,12258,795,392,309,20506,68738],"class_list":["post-247178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-ftse","tag-banking","tag-business","tag-debt-to-gdp","tag-doanld-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-ftse-100","tag-ftse-100-boss","tag-ftse-100-live","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-gdp","tag-gdp-per-capita","tag-gdp-per-cepita","tag-growth","tag-growth-agenda","tag-growth-forecast","tag-iran","tag-market","tag-market-bubble","tag-market-cap","tag-market-conditions","tag-market-correction","tag-market-dominance","tag-market-economy","tag-markets","tag-news","tag-office-for-national-statistics-ons","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-sector","tag-oil-services","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-retail","tag-stock-market","tag-trump","tag-trump-administration","tag-trump-speech","tag-uk-gdp"],"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\/247178","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=247178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}