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Last Updated: 15-Jun-26 09:05 ET | Archive
Market savoring taste of a peace deal with Iran
Briefing.com Summary:
*The U.S. and Iran have reportedly reached a peace agreement that will be signed on Friday.
*Global equity markets are in risk-on mode with news of the deal.
*Oil prices are down sharply, with WTI crude futures threatening to crack $80.00/bbl.
The stock market has squeezed a lot of lemonade out of the many headline lemons that have suggested a peace deal with Iran is close. Today, though, there are no lemons to squeeze. There is just a spoonful of sugar to be added to the lemonade after President Trump confirmed that a peace deal with Iran, which will include the toll-free reopening of the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, has been struck.
Full details of the deal, which will be signed Friday at the G-7 meeting in Switzerland, haven't been announced, and there remains an unsettled negotiation involving Iran's nuclear program (there is a 60-day window for that, per Bloomberg), but global markets have been energized by this news.
You can see it in equity markets, sovereign bond markets, commodities markets, and currency markets. They are all responding accordingly.
- Stock markets are in rally mode. Japan's Nikkei soared 5.0% to a new record high; South Korea's Kospi surged 5.2%; and Germany's DAX Index is up 1.4%.
- The 10-yr note yield is down four basis points to 4.45%; the 10-yr UK Gilt yield is down four basis points to 4.80%; and Japan's government bond yield is down six basis points to 2.57%.
- WTI crude futures are down 5.5% to $80.22/bbl; Brent crude futures are down 5.0% to $83.01/bbl; and gold futures are up 2.9% to $4,361.40/toz.
- The U.S. Dollar Index is down 0.2% to 99.51; and Bitcoin is up 5.4% to $66,258.60
Currently, the S&P 500 futures are up 95 points and are trading 1.3% above fair value, the Nasdaq 100 futures are up 617 points and are trading 2.1% above fair value, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are up 564 points and are trading 1.1% above fair value.
The stock market is going to get a nice lift at the open, and it might even hitch a ride on SpaceX (SPCX), which had an impressive debut on Friday and is up another 5.5% in pre-market trading.
There isn't much corporate news moving the needle today, but Fox (FOXA) has managed to steal a bit of the attention from the welcome macro developments with the news that it is acquiring Roku (ROKU) for $160.00 per share in a cash-and-stock deal.
The macro attention will be front-and-center throughout the week, and it will feature the Retail Sales Report for May on Wednesday morning, followed by the FOMC decision and release of the Summary of Economic Projections later that day.
The FOMC meeting will mark the first meeting directed by Fed Chair Warsh. The Fed is widely expected to leave the target range for the fed funds rate unchanged at 3.50-3.75%. The intrigue surrounding this meeting is whether there will be dissent(s) over that decision, what the so-called dot plot will reveal about the median projection for the target range for the fed funds rate this year and next, and what Fed Chair Warsh says and how he says it at his first press conference.
Today, though, belongs to the peace deal, which Vice President Vance told CNBC still has a lot of details to be worked out but that the U.S. holds all the cards. It sounds more like a tentative deal than a definitive deal, but the framework of a deal is a deal for now in the market's mind that helps all that lemonade taste a little sweeter.
