{"id":4160,"date":"2026-05-21T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/21\/asia-markets-rise-as-trump-hints-at-final-stages-of-iran-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:34:09","slug":"asia-markets-rise-as-trump-hints-at-final-stages-of-iran-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/21\/asia-markets-rise-as-trump-hints-at-final-stages-of-iran-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Markets Rise as Trump Hints at &#8216;Final Stages&#8217; of Iran Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asia-Pacific markets traded higher on Thursday, inspired by Wall Street&#8217;s gains and a cooling of oil prices amid hopes for a resolution in the Middle East conflict. U.S. President Trump&#8217;s statement about being in the &#8216;final stages&#8217; of negotiations with Iran significantly lifted investor optimism.<\/p>\n<p>Key markets like Japan&#8217;s Nikkei 225 surged, driven by strong export data and tech sector boosts, while South Korea&#8217;s Kospi also saw substantial gains. Oil prices recovered slightly after earlier declines.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/21\/asia-markets-set-to-rise-as-trump-says-negotiations-between-iran-and-the-us-in-final-stage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia-Pacific markets traded higher on Thursday, inspired by Wall Street&#8217;s gains and a cooling of oil prices amid hopes for a resolution in the Middle East conflict. U.S. President Trump&#8217;s statement about being in the &#8216;final stages&#8217; of negotiations with Iran significantly lifted investor optimism. Key markets like Japan&#8217;s Nikkei 225 surged, driven by strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/via.placeholder.com\/600x400","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-global-security","rifnote_country-australia","rifnote_country-china","rifnote_country-hong-kong","rifnote_country-india","rifnote_country-iran","rifnote_country-japan","rifnote_country-south-korea","rifnote_country-u-s","rifnote_executive-donald-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/via.placeholder.com\/600x400","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}