{"id":54548,"date":"2026-04-06T17:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/54548\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:45:28","slug":"us-stocks-and-oil-prices-flip-flop-ahead-of-trumps-deadline-to-bomb-iranian-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/54548\/","title":{"rendered":"US stocks and oil prices flip-flop ahead of Trump’s deadline to bomb Iranian power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The U.S. stock market is making only hesitant moves Monday, while oil prices are flip-flopping ahead of a deadline that President Donald Trump<\/a> has set to bomb Iranian power plants.<\/p>\n

The S&P 500 edged up by 0.3% in midday trading, coming off its first winning week in the last six<\/a>. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 100 points, or 0.2%, as of 12:30 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% higher.<\/p>\n

Oil prices likewise seesawed between gains and losses amid continued uncertainty about what will happen in the war with Iran<\/a> and how long it will slow the global flow of oil and natural gas. Iran on Monday rejected the latest ceasefire proposal<\/a> and instead said it wants a permanent end to the war, though the talks may not have collapsed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won\u2019t merely accept a ceasefire,\u201d Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Cairo, told The Associated Press. \u201cWe only accept an end of the war with guarantees that we won\u2019t be attacked again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fighting is continuing, meanwhile, including an Israeli attack on an Iranian petrochemical plant. And in the background is the clock ticking toward a deadline, which Trump has moved multiple times, where he has threatened to attack Iran\u2019s infrastructure if it does not open the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>. A fifth of the world\u2019s oil typically sails through the strait during peacetime. <\/p>\n

\u201cTuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,\u201d Trump said on his social media network over the weekend, threatening Iranian leaders that \u201cyou\u2019ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH!\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday also offered the first chance for U.S. stock prices to react to a report from Friday that said U.S. employers hired more workers<\/a> last month than economists expected. The unemployment rate unexpectedly improved. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re encouraging signals for an economy that\u2019s had to absorb painful leaps in costs for gasoline since the war\u2019s beginning. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline is nearly $4.12 across the country, according to AAA. It was below $3 a couple days before the United States and Israel launched attacks to begin the war in late February.<\/p>\n

For countries that don\u2019t produce as much oil<\/a> as the United States, the pain has been even worse. That\u2019s because they are more reliant on oil coming from the Middle East, and the war has blocked in much of the crude produced in the Persian Gulf area. That oil typically gets to customers around the world by exiting the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n

The price for a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude rose 0.3% to $111.88 after erasing an earlier modest dip. Brent crude, the international standard, added 0.2% to $109.26 per barrel and remains well above its roughly $70 price from before the war. <\/p>\n

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On Wall Street, a split performance for the Big Tech stocks that are the U.S. market\u2019s most influential kept things in check. Apple rose 1.2%, and Amazon added 1.4%, but Microsoft fell 0.5%.<\/p>\n

Bank stocks were some of the market\u2019s strongest, including a 1.6% rise for JPMorgan Chase. <\/p>\n

CEO Jamie Dimon said in his annual letter to shareholders released on Monday that the U.S. economy continues to be resilient, and businesses still look healthy. He, though, also acknowledged that prices for stocks and other assets are high, which could imply \u201canything less than positive outcomes could have a dramatic impact on global markets.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the bond market, Treasury yields held relatively steady. The 10-year Treasury yield was sitting at 4.32%. That\u2019s still well above its 3.97% level from before the war.<\/p>\n

That rise has pushed up rates for mortgages<\/a> and other loans going to U.S. households and businesses, slowing the economy.<\/p>\n

A report on Monday also said that finance, transportation and other U.S. businesses in services sectors grew in March for a 21st straight month of expansion. But the growth was slightly slower than economists expected, and a measure of prices accelerated at its fastest pace since 2022 in a potentially discouraging signal for inflation. <\/p>\n

In stock markets abroad, Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 added 0.5%, and South Korea\u2019s Kospi jumped 1.4%. Many other markets in Europe and Asia were closed for holidays. <\/p>\n

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AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The U.S. stock market is making only hesitant moves Monday, while oil prices are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[325,16621,328,38,2446,777,2276,149,197,2437,34,196,1136,1784,1054,2222,2423,101,51,771,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-54548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-ap-top-news","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-economic-indicators","13":"tag-energy-industry","14":"tag-energy-markets","15":"tag-financial-markets","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-inc","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-iran-war","20":"tag-jamie-dimon","21":"tag-jpmorgan-chase-co","22":"tag-microsoft-corp","23":"tag-oil-and-gas-industry","24":"tag-stocks-and-bonds","25":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-washington-news","28":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116359012174836138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54548","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=54548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}