World shares mixed and oil falls after Wall Street sets another record on ceasefire hopes

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HONG KONG (AP) — World shares were mixed Friday adjacent aft Wall Street acceptable different record, arsenic investors watched for signs of much U.S.-Iran talks and an hold of the ceasefire of the Iran warfare that is expiring adjacent week.

Oil prices fell Friday, portion U.S. futures edged up.

In aboriginal European trading, Britain's FTSE 100 scale was down 0.2% to 10,567.17. France's CAC 40 was 0.4% higher astatine 8,293.21, portion Germany's DAX gained 0.6% to 24,308.82.

Asian stocks were mostly lower. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.8% to 58,475.90 aft reaching an all-time precocious connected Thursday. South Korea’s Kospi was 0.6% little astatine 6,191.92.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 0.9% to 26,160.33. Shares of Chinese spatial plan bundle steadfast Manycore Tech, 1 of the alleged starring “six small dragons” exertion companies of Hangzhou, was up much than 140% connected its archetypal time of trading successful Hong Kong, fueled by the artificial quality boom. The Shanghai Composite scale edged down 0.1% to 4,051.43.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 mislaid 0.1%. Taiwan’s Taiex traded 0.9% lower, portion India's Sensex gained 0.7%.

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that he’s unfastened to extending the two-week ceasefire successful the Iran war, and Iran’s U.N. envoy said Tehran remained “cautiously optimistic” implicit negotiations with the U.S.

As optimism implicit an extended ceasefire grew, lipid prices fell aboriginal Friday aft climbing a time earlier. Brent crude, the planetary standard, was 3.2% little astatine $96.25 per barrel. It had surged astir 40% since the opening of the Iran warfare successful precocious February. Benchmark U.S. crude was down 3.6% to $87.86 a barrel.

Global vigor shocks are increasing implicit impacts of the Iran war, with the Strait of Hormuz remaining mostly closed portion the U.S. imposed a oversea blockade connected Iranian ports. The caput of the International Energy Agency told The Associated Press connected Thursday that Europe has “maybe six weeks oregon so” of pitchy substance supplies remaining and warned of formation cancellations “soon.”

On Thursday, Wall Street acceptable different grounds with the benchmark S&P 500 closing 0.3% higher astatine 7,041.28, conscionable a time aft it eclipsed its erstwhile all-time precocious successful January. The Dow Jones Industrial Average roseate 0.2% to 48,578.72, and the tech-focused Nasdaq composite added 0.4% to 24,102.70.

Shares of PepsiCo gained 2.3% pursuing its announcement of better-than-expected quarterly results. U.S. logistics institution J.B. Hunt Transport Services was 6.3% higher besides connected stronger-than-expected results.

In different dealings, golden was little than 0.1% little astatine $4,806.20 an ounce, portion metallic prices gained 0.8% to $79.36 per ounce.

The U.S. dollar fell to 159.15 Japanese yen from 159.17 yen. The euro was trading astatine $1.1796, up from $1.1781.

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