{"id":429675,"date":"2026-04-21T03:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/investinglive-americas-market-news-wrap-the-market-stays-constructive-on-peace\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:40:04","slug":"investinglive-americas-market-news-wrap-the-market-stays-constructive-on-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/investinglive-americas-market-news-wrap-the-market-stays-constructive-on-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"investingLive Americas market news wrap: The market stays constructive on peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/trump-my-deal-will-be-better-than-jcpoa-20260420\/\">Trump: My deal will be better than JCPOA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/trump-im-winning-the-war-by-a-lot-20260420\/\">Trump: I&#8217;m winning the war by a lot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/trump-says-ceasefire-will-end-wednesday-wont-open-strait-until-deal-is-signed-20260420\/\">Trump says ceasefire will end Wednesday, won&#8217;t open Strait until deal is signed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/centralbank\/warsh-to-tell-congress-hes-committed-to-ensuring-monetary-policy-is-strictly-independent-20260420\/\">Warsh to tell Congress he&#8217;s committed to ensuring monetary policy is strictly independent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/centralbank\/canadas-q1-business-outlook-survey-sentiment-bounces-back-then-the-middle-east-happened-20260420\/\">Canada&#8217;s Q1 Business Outlook Survey: sentiment bounces back, then the Middle East happened<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/us-iran-talks-are-planned-for-wednesday-report-20260420\/\">US-Iran talks are planned for Wednesday &#8211; report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/iran-positively-reviewing-participation-in-peace-talks-no-final-decision-taken-report-20260420\/\">Iran positively reviewing participation in peace talks, no final decision taken &#8211; report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/iran-reportedly-willing-to-participate-in-second-round-of-talks-this-week-20260420\/\">Iran reportedly willing to participate in second round of talks this week<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/canada-march-cpi-24-yy-vs-26-expected-20260420\/\">Canada March CPI +2.4% y\/y vs +2.6% expected<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Markets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gold down $15 to $4813<\/li>\n<li>US 10-year yields up 1.2 bps to 4.256%<\/li>\n<li>WTI crude oil up $4.85 to $86.68<\/li>\n<li>CHF leads, JPY lags<\/li>\n<li>S&amp;P 500 down 0.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only thing you can say about today&#8217;s US session was that the situation in Iran didn&#8217;t get worse.<\/p>\n<p>The market was looking for some answers around a few questions and I&#8217;m not sure there was any progress. The main issues are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is Iran actually attending negotiations? (this seems to be drifting towards &#8216;yes&#8217; but they&#8217;re grandstanding, maybe for the domestic audience.<\/li>\n<li>Is JD Vance going for the US? (Trump said he was already in the air but that turned out to be untrue but it looks like he&#8217;s going on Tuesday)<\/li>\n<li>Will there be a deal? (Trump fired off several tweetstorms with all kinds of rhetoric but he did hint that the deal was on track &#8212; and better than the JCPOA)<\/li>\n<li>Will Hormuz open before talks? (This seems to be a sticking point at the moment and if both sides halted their blockade before the talks, that would be a positive sign)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So we continue to wait but the market wasn&#8217;t particularly bothered outside of near-dated oil, which recouped about half of Friday&#8217;s drop. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday we get US retail sales and the confirmation hearing for Warsh so that should be a welcome distraction but Iran is going to continue to dominate until we get a deal.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: My deal will be better than JCPOA Trump: I&#8217;m winning the war by a lot Trump says ceasefire will end Wednesday, won&#8217;t open Strait until deal is signed Warsh to tell Congress he&#8217;s committed to ensuring monetary policy is strictly independent Canada&#8217;s Q1 Business Outlook Survey: sentiment bounces back, then the Middle East happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}