Two men look at an electronic quotation board displaying the Nikkei 225 stock prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on June 12, 2026. <\/p>\n
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific markets fell on Friday as investors assessed the durability of a U.S.-brokered peace agreement with Iran.<\/p>\n
U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Thursday defended President Donald Trump’s interim agreement with Iran, saying any economic relief for Tehran would depend on the country complying with the terms of the deal.<\/p>\n
“The United States isn’t giving up a cent of money to Iran,” Vance said. “The only way the Iranians get any of these resources … is if they comply fully” with the terms of the deal.<\/p>\n
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, likewise described the agreement as conditional, saying on Thursday that he approved the memorandum only after receiving guarantees that Iran’s rights and the “resistance front” would be safeguarded.<\/p>\n
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225<\/a> fell 0.6% after hitting a record high on Thursday, while the Topix lost 1.11%.<\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi dropped 1.58%, pulling back after crossing the 9,000 mark for the first time yesterday. Shares of Samsung Electronics reversed earlier gains and fell 3%, while SK Hynix rose 1%. The small-cap Kosdaq tumbled 4.95%.<\/p>\n Australia’s benchmark S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> was down 1.14%.<\/p>\n U.S., China, Hong Kong and Taiwan markets are closed for a holiday.<\/p>\n U.S. stock futures were lower, with the S&P 500 futures<\/a> and Nasdaq 100 futures<\/a> losing 0.6% and 0.9%, respectively. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> were down 200 points, or 0.38%.<\/p>\n Overnight in the U.S., stocks closed out the holiday-shortened week in positive territory. The three major indexes closed higher after the Federal Reserve indicated the possibility of a rate hike<\/a> this year \u2014 a move that sparked a sell-off in equities during the previous session.<\/p>\n The S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0added 1.08%, closing at 7,500.58, and the Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0climbed 1.91% to 26,517.93. The Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0rose by 72.15 points, or 0.14%, to end at 51,564.70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men look at an electronic quotation board displaying the Nikkei 225 stock prices on the Tokyo Stock…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":877706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[104,64,81,69,3350,83,9851,15243,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-877705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-iran","tag-j-d-vance","tag-south-korea","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116775546301356749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}