{"id":440744,"date":"2026-10-23T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-the-question-is-do-we-want-to-finish-iran-war-or-let-it-wither-440744\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:40:14","slug":"trump-the-question-is-do-we-want-to-finish-iran-war-or-let-it-wither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-the-question-is-do-we-want-to-finish-iran-war-or-let-it-wither-440744\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: The question is, do we want to finish Iran war or let it wither"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Trump is speaking on Iran and much of it is the same things he&#8217;s been saying for months but the market is sniffing out some kind of weekend escalation so the comments are being closely followed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do we want to finish it or let it wither is the question<\/li>\n<li>We could take all of the oil in Iran<\/li>\n<li>We could end Iran war very quickly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think you use the word &#8216;wither&#8217; if that&#8217;s the option you&#8217;re leaning towards.<\/p>\n<p>There are some bids in stocks today but WTI crude remains up $2.82 to $102.27 and about 40 cents from the highs of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Other comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Close to a trade deal with Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Says Canada is working hard to make a deal with us<\/li>\n<li>Discussed opening up north sea drilling with UK<\/li>\n<li>On Starlink, says if it&#8217;s not fixed for Ukraine, he will talk to Musk<\/li>\n<li>Says he has not spoken to Musk<\/li>\n<li>UK call today included some discussion of Ukraine and Iran<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is speaking on Iran and much of it is the same things he&#8217;s been saying for months but the market is sniffing out some kind of weekend escalation so the comments&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-440744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440744","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=440744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}