A two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire and Iran's agreement to temporarily reopen the Strait of Hormuz sparked a decline in crude oil and pushed Asian equities mostly higher on Wednesday. The development lowered near-term geopolitical risk in energy markets and prompted a short-term risk-on reaction across regional stocks and commodity-sensitive sectors.
A two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire and Iran's agreement to temporarily reopen the Strait of Hormuz sparked a decline in crude oil and pushed Asian equities mostly higher on Wednesday. The development lowered near-term geopolitical risk in energy markets and prompted a short-term risk-on reaction across regional stocks and commodity-sensitive sectors.
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