Hopes for a Cease-Fire in Lebanon Sends Oil Prices Down
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:40.0 | U.S. stocks turned higher today as major indexes reversed their early morning declines. |
| 0:45.1 | The S&P 500 rose for its seventh straight session, ending the day up 0.6%. |
| 0:50.8 | The Dow also added 0.6% to move into positive territory for the year, and the NASDAQ was up |
| 0:57.4 | 0.8%. Investors focused on reports that Israel and Lebanon will pursue direct ceasefire talks soon. |
| 1:04.5 | This optimism helped oil prices settle below $100. Shares of oil companies slipped. ExxonMobil shares dropped 0.8%. Meanwhile, the Federal |
| 1:14.2 | Reserve's preferred inflation gauge showed that prices stayed high in February, though it doesn't |
| 1:19.3 | reveal much about the pricing pressures from the war. Among other individual companies, |
| 1:24.3 | micron technology shares rose 4% during afternoon trading. Investors hope a |
| 1:28.9 | regional ceasefire will unlock supplies of helium needed for chip production. While Disney shares inch |
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