{"id":223243,"date":"2026-06-01T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/japan-south-korea-stocks-hit-more-records-as-oil-gains-on-iran-war-ending-fragility\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:10:26","slug":"japan-south-korea-stocks-hit-more-records-as-oil-gains-on-iran-war-ending-fragility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/japan-south-korea-stocks-hit-more-records-as-oil-gains-on-iran-war-ending-fragility\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, South Korea Stocks Hit More Records, as Oil Gains on Iran War Ending Fragility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/business\/articles\/2026-06-01\/japan-south-korea-stocks-hit-more-records-as-oil-gains-on-iran-war-ending-fragility\">Japan, South Korea Stocks Hit More Records, as Oil Gains on Iran War Ending Fragility<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/business\/articles\/2026-06-01\/japan-south-korea-stocks-hit-more-records-as-oil-gains-on-iran-war-ending-fragility\">https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/business\/articles\/2026-06-01\/japan-south-korea-stocks-hit-more-records-as-oil-gains-on-iran-war-ending-fragility<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 00:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.usnews.com\">www.usnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stock markets in Japan and South Korea reached new record highs, driven by enthusiastic investors in artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo\u2019s Nikkei 225 index surpassed the 67,000 mark for the first time and gained over 1.3%.<\/li>\n<li>South Korea\u2019s Kospi index hit an all-time high with a nearly 5% increase, led by significant gains in Samsung Electronics.<\/li>\n<li>Oil prices experienced a more than 2% increase due to ongoing U.S.-Iran negotiations, particularly concerning the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/li>\n<li>The surge in AI-related stocks also positively impacted other markets, with the S&amp;P 500 on Wall Street registering its seventh straight gain, driven by technology-heavy indices like the Nasdaq.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, South Korea Stocks Hit More Records, as Oil Gains on Iran War Ending Fragility&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/dims4\/USNEWS\/17bb2ef\/2147483647\/thumbnail\/970x647\/quality\/85\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usnews.com%2Fcmsmedia%2F17%2F1ce0694b7ebaa68c837ea45b2e7175%2Fbb8ad72200dd407da782e04358579f19South_Korea_Financial_Markets__6566.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-223243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223245,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223243\/revisions\/223245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}