{"id":4218,"date":"2026-05-25T07:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/25\/asia-markets-surge-on-oil-price-drop-and-hormuz-hopes-japans-nikkei-hits-record-65000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:14:20","slug":"asia-markets-surge-on-oil-price-drop-and-hormuz-hopes-japans-nikkei-hits-record-65000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/25\/asia-markets-surge-on-oil-price-drop-and-hormuz-hopes-japans-nikkei-hits-record-65000\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Markets Surge on Oil Price Drop and Hormuz Hopes; Japan’s Nikkei Hits Record 65,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asian markets opened with robust gains, spearheaded by Japan’s Nikkei 225 hitting a record 65,000, as hopes for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz pushed oil prices down over 5%. President Donald Trump’s comments on “constructive” Iran talks fueled investor optimism, outweighing thin trading volumes due to regional and U.S. holiday closures. This positive sentiment echoed Friday’s strong performance on Wall Street, with major U.S. indices also closing higher.<\/p>\n

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Asian markets opened with robust gains, spearheaded by Japan’s Nikkei 225 hitting a record 65,000, as hopes for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz pushed oil prices down over 5%. President Donald Trump’s comments on “constructive” Iran talks fueled investor optimism, outweighing thin trading volumes due to regional and U.S. holiday closures. This positive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108311557-1722880000000-gettyimages-1249716617-ohsumi-japan-tokyo-20230327-023.jpeg?v=1722880000000&w=929&h=523","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-world","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-taiwan","rifnote_country-u-s","rifnote_executive-donald-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108311557-1722880000000-gettyimages-1249716617-ohsumi-japan-tokyo-20230327-023.jpeg?v=1722880000000&w=929&h=523","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","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=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}