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Key Takeaways
- The US and Iran signed an initial deal reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
- Oil fell on the news, with WTI down 2.49% to $74.83.
- Crypto dropped too: total market cap fell 2.4% to $2.2 trillion.
- The nuclear dispute stays unresolved, deferred to a 60-day window.
The agreement does what markets had hoped, removing the single largest economic risk the conflict created. It reopens the Strait of Hormuz and oil responded immediately: WTI crude fell 2.49% to $74.83 and Brent dropped 2.24% to $77.7. That is the textbook reaction to easing energy-supply risk.
Crypto did not follow the script. Rather than treating the de-escalation as the risk-on signal it would normally be, the market sold off, and the pressure was still building in the latest hour. According to CoinMarketCap Bitcoin slipped to $63,677, down 3.34% on the day and 0.70% in the past hour alone, w...
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