reached<\/a> last month to bring their war to an end.<\/p>\n“The powerful armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as they have repeatedly shown, will not hesitate to defend Iran’s territorial integrity, national sovereignty, and national security against American military aggression,” the ministry said, according to a Google translation. <\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday, the military alliance’s Secretary General Mark Rutte said America’s strikes were “absolutely necessary.”<\/p>\n
“When you have a ceasefire and Iran is basically violating the ceasefire \u2014 we see what happened yesterday with ships being attacked \u2014 I think it is totally crucial that the U.S. forcefully reacts,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Renewed tensions in the Middle East have interrupted what had become an increasingly complacent market narrative, prompting investors to reassess geopolitical risks after several weeks of pricing in a smooth path toward de-escalation,” Daniela Hathorn, senior market analyst at Capital.com, said in a note on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
“The latest attacks have reminded investors that while a ceasefire remains in place, a lasting agreement between the U.S. and Iran is far from guaranteed. Markets had become comfortable with the idea that the conflict would gradually fade into the background but recent developments suggest that assumption may have been premature.”<\/p>\n
Investors’ attention will also turn to the minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee’s June meeting, due at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday. The release is expected to provide more insight into Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s first policy meeting, where officials left interest rates unchanged while signaling that additional rate hikes could be warranted if inflation pressures persist.<\/p>\n
“The FOMC minutes will be [a] wildcard simply because Warsh was so opaque at the most recent press conference,” Adam Crisafulli, founder of Vital Knowledge, said in a note. “Normally, [Jerome] Powell provided fairly comprehensive accounting of the meeting discussion, but that didn’t happen with Warsh,\u00a0so the minutes, which\u00a0are likely to be hawkish in tone, could\u00a0contain some surprises.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2014 CNBC’s Garrett Downs contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on July 07, 2026 in New…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":920653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[291588,24455,133,81,14226,359567,14828,69,91320,144,141580,3350,7994,152483,250818,83,266349,75621,64216,135,91322,143,50,7997,25804,25800,91321,145,14829,250644,95914,134,8187,24922,10316,67,259090,132,68,108600],"class_list":["post-920652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-lco26u","tag-breaking-news-major","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business-news","tag-carnival-corp","tag-carnival-corporation-ltd","tag-delta-air-lines-inc","tag-donald-trump","tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-energy-select-sector-spdr-fund","tag-foreign-policy","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-ice-brent-crude-oct25","tag-invesco-qqq-trust","tag-iran","tag-ishares-transportation-average-etf","tag-kevin-warsh","tag-lp","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-news","tag-nikkei-225-index","tag-norwegian-cruise-line-holdings-ltd","tag-royal-caribbean-cruises-ltd","tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","tag-sp-500-index","tag-southwest-airlines-co","tag-spdr-dow-jones-industrial-average-etf-trust","tag-spdr-sp-500-etf-trust","tag-stock-markets","tag-stoxx-600","tag-turkey","tag-united-airlines-holdings-inc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-oil-fund","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wti-crude-sep25"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920652","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=920652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}