Oil Market Shrugs Off Trump's Iran War Posts — SkimNews
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- Oil markets have shown shrinking price reactions to Trump's social media posts about the Iran war over time, according to an Axios analysis of data from RollCall and Financial Modeling Prep.
- Axios highlights that oil price changes ripple throughout the U.S. and global economies, amplifying the significance of the declining market response to presidential rhetoric.
Why it matters: If oil markets increasingly ignore Trump's social-media-driven claims about the Iran war, it signals a credibility gap between presidential rhetoric and market pricing — meaning policy announcements may face stiffer skepticism from traders who set prices that affect U.S. and global economic activity.
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