Oil spikes as Trump's Iran war speech sends global markets into turmoil
President Donald Trump's late-night TV address to the nation regarding the US-Iran war has sent global markets spiraling.

Trump said Wednesday that countries relying on oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz should take the lead in reopening it.
President Donald Trump's late-night TV address to the nation regarding the US-Iran war has sent global markets spiraling.
US stock futures plunged Thursday morning as oil prices surged after President Trump vowed to hit Iran “extremely hard” in the coming weeks.
During his address to the nation, President Donald Trump threatened to send Iran "back to the Stone Ages" and spoke about possibility for negotiations. NBC News’ Monica Alba recaps the highlights from Trump’s address.
Markets sink after president offers little detail on how he intends to wind down conflict over next two to three weeksMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump used a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday evening to declare the month-long war in Iran a success “nearing completion”, despite a spiraling conflict that has caused economic turmoil…
President Trump did not define a clear path out of the conflict, which he estimated would end within three weeks.
Trump's first televised address of the conflict with Iran did little to quell uneasy markets.
President Trump delivered a primetime address about the war on Iran on Wednesday evening, more than a month after hostilities commenced. Trump’s decision to launch the war, in conjunction with Israel, has come to look more and more risky. The conflict has been unpopular since its inception. Soaring gas prices and turbulence on the financial…
President Trump sought to assure Americans that the conflict with Iran would be brief compared to other wars in U.S. history and insisted that gas prices would go down quickly. Nancy Cordes reports.
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