{"id":65751,"date":"2026-05-11T05:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/65751\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:59:21","slug":"asian-shares-are-mixed-and-oil-jumps-4-after-trump-rejects-irans-response-to-ceasefire-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/65751\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian shares are mixed and oil jumps 4% after Trump rejects Iran’s response to ceasefire proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

HONG KONG \u2013 Asian stocks were mixed Monday after Wall Street set more records, and oil surged more than 4% following U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s rejection of Tehran\u2019s response to the latest U.S. proposal on ending the war in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

U.S. futures edged lower.<\/p>\n

Tokyo\u2019s Nikkei 225 fell 0.4% to 62,486.84 after briefing reaching another record high in intraday trading at above 63,300. Technology-focused investment holding company SoftBank Group, one of Japan\u2019s largest stocks, fell more than 5%.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s Kospi gained 4.1% to 7,804.71. It also hit an all-time intraday high, led by gains from tech-related stocks including Samsung Electronics and memory chip maker SK Hynix.<\/p>\n

Technology-related stocks and growing artificial intelligence-related interest have supported markets in Japan and South Korea despite the Iran war, with the Nikkei 225 and Kospi rising more than 10% and 30%, respectively, over the past month.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng fell 0.3% to 26,319.93. The Shanghai Composite index climbed 0.9% to 4,219.13, following official data Monday that showed China\u2019s factory gate prices rose 2.8% in April from a year ago, the highest since 2022, as well as better-than-expected export figures<\/a> released over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s S&P\/ASX 200 lost 0.6%. Taiwan\u2019s Taiex traded 0.9% higher, and India’s Sensex fell 1.3%.<\/p>\n

Oil prices jumped early Monday over Iran war uncertainties, after Trump wrote<\/a> in a social media post that Iran\u2019s response on Sunday to the U.S.\u2019s latest proposal was \u201cTOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!\u201d<\/p>\n

Brent crude, the international standard, gained 4.2% to $105.57 per barrel. It was roughly $70 per barrel before the war began in late February. Benchmark U.S. crude was 4.7% higher at $99.89 a barrel.<\/p>\n

With the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, a crucial waterway for global oil and gas transport, still largely closed and as the U.S. is continuing its sea blockade<\/a> of Iranian ports, analysts believe oil prices are likely to remain higher for longer.<\/p>\n

The Iran war was also set to be<\/a> part of the discussion agenda when Trump meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this week. China has close economic links with Iran and the U.S. has been pressing<\/a> Beijing to leverage its influence to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere remains a glimmer of hope that talks between Trump and Chinese President Xi later this week could yield positive results on Iran,\u201d ING commodities analysts Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey wrote in a note on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hope is that China can use its influence over Iran to push it closer towards a peace deal,\u201d they said. \u201cClearly, this is easier said than done.\u201d The oil market is still very much \u201cheavily headline-driven,\u201d the pair added.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Wall Street rose to new records<\/a> with the benchmark S&P 500 adding 0.8% to 7,398.93 and reaching its latest all-time high, fueled by market optimism after a solid report<\/a> on the U.S. job market which was better than what analysts had expected despite Iran war shocks.<\/p>\n

The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up less than 0.1% to 49,609.16, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite climbed 1.7% to its own record at 26,247.08.<\/p>\n

In other dealings, the U.S. dollar climbed to 157.14 Japanese yen from 156.61 yen. The euro was trading at $1.1756, down from $1.1780.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP Business Writers Stan Choe and Matt Ott contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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