Oil falls back on renewed peace agreement optimism

Oil dips after a White House official says the U.S. and Iran are close to a temporary peace agreement. Vice President JD Vance says he feels ‘pretty good’ about how negotiations are progressing. Today’s fall in crude prices are close to 20 per cent on the month. Equities in the U.S. have ended a stellar month of May while European markets lag behind. A.I. giant Anthropic builds up its latest round of funding by almost 200 per cent, bringing its market value to just short of $1tn to overtake OpenAI and become the most valuable A.I. start-up on the planet. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin suffers a major setback in its bid to compete with SpaceX as a test rocket explodes into a gigantic fireball on lift-off. See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at .

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This episode was published on May 28, 2026.

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