{"id":1841697,"date":"2026-03-23T11:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1841697"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:43:02","slug":"global-markets-tumble-with-no-end-to-iran-war-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1841697","title":{"rendered":"Global markets tumble with no end to Iran war in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76483385_6.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"sk6xmai\">\n<div class=\"content-area sa7l9jt s9mg977\">\n<section data-tracking-name=\"sharing-icons-inline\" class=\"c75t7t0 hh5424a in-line closed\">\n<div class=\"copy-button-wrapper closed\"><span class=\"svdcmki\">https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/5AucX<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"s4bcs45\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76483385_800.webp 50w, https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76483385_801.webp 129w, https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76483385_802.webp 352w, https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76483385_803.webp 575w\" media=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 575px)\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" \/><figcaption class=\"c1oedowi lofg86o m4xla6a s16w0xvi rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">Frankfurt&#8217;s cherry blossoms may be blooming, but the DAX is wilting amid the conflict in the Middle East<small class=\"copyright c19ed66t ihwmx5 idu7i8u lxmvniw icns9en rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">Image: Florian Gaul\/greatif\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div data-tracking-skip=\"true\" data-tracking-name=\"rich-text\" class=\"c17j8gzx rc0m0op r1ebneao s198y7xq rich-text l1evdo4u blt0baw s16w0xvi rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/dax-and-other-stock-markets\/t-19102522\">Stock markets<\/a> dipped across the board early on Monday, with traders nervous after another weekend yielded no real signs of deescalation in Iran or the wider Gulf region or a reduction in the rising <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/oil-gas-industry\/t-19021263\">energy prices<\/a> the conflict is causing.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the major Asian markets dipped by 3% or more, while Europe&#8217;s main indices all shed in the region of 2% in morning trading, government bond yields were up and even the traditional safe havens <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/gold\/t-75771877\">gold<\/a> and silver shed more than 6% and 7% of their values.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"placeholder-image master_landscape big\"><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"76483413\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76483413_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"People stand in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Monday, March 23, 2026, in Tokyo. \"><figcaption class=\"img-caption\">At its lowest ebb, Japan&#8217;s Nikkei was down nearly 5% in a single day, but it recovered slightly before the close of trade<small class=\"copyright\">Image: Eugene Hoshiko\/AP Photo\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Where did\u00a0key\u00a0stocks and prices stand on Monday?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Major indices were in the red almost across the board after a weekend of inactivity, with some of the key stats as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Germany&#8217;s DAX dipped during the morning, and was down by just over 2% as of midday local time<\/li>\n<li>France&#8217;s CAC 40 was also roughly 2% down, while the FTSE 100 in London logged similar numbers until a small spike recouped much of the losses late in the morning<\/li>\n<li>Japan&#8217;s benchmark Nikkei 225 closed down 3.5% at 51,515.49, having dipped lower still in the course of the day<\/li>\n<li>South Korea&#8217;s Kospi nosedived by roughly 6.5% to 5,405.75<\/li>\n<li>Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng\u00a0was down 3.5%, while the Shanghai Composite shed 3.6% in a single day<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan&#8217;s Taiex shed 2.5% while Australia&#8217;s A&amp;P\/ASX 200 fared somewhat better, sliding by just 0.7%<\/li>\n<li>Gold and silver, major gainers in recent years, were both in freefall, down almost 7% and 8%, respectively<\/li>\n<li>Crude oil was one of few prices to rise, but only marginally<\/li>\n<li>Western governments&#8217; 10-year bond yields also showed modest gains across the board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s DAX, like most major western markets, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/how-oil-price-hikes-threaten-germanys-economy\/a-76330530\">has been sliding rapidly<\/a> throughout the month since <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-israel-war-with-iran\/t-76168615\">the US and Israeli strikes on Iran<\/a> that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many other senior officials starting on February 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The main German index slipped below 22,000 points on Monday, having traded higher than 25,000 prior to the first attacks on Tehran. That&#8217;s a dip of more than 12%. It&#8217;s now reached its lowest ebb since early April last year, in the aftermath of the panic caused by US President Donald Trump&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs imposed on most of the world, including Europe.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s CAC 40 has also shed 11% of its value in a month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s FTSE 100 has fared slightly better, sliding 6.67% in a month, perhaps in part because of the UK&#8217;s own oil resources. US markets have slid more or less in line with the values seen in the UK, with the Dow Jones down about 6.6% and the S&amp;P 500 shedding almost 5% of its value in that period.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"placeholder-image master_landscape big\"><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"76483436\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76483436_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\" A person looks at an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index chart at a securities firm Monday, March 23, 2026, in Tokyo.\"><figcaption class=\"img-caption\">A longer term Nikkei chart shows a similar drop-off in the month of March to most of the world&#8217;s stock markets amid the fighting in the Middle East<small class=\"copyright\">Image: Eugene Hoshiko\/AP Photo\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Strait of Hormuz still blocked, no real signs of regional de-esclation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s slide comes after Trump&#8217;s weekend threat that the US would &#8220;obliterate&#8221; Iran&#8217;s power plants unless if fully opens the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, which prompted Tehran to say that it would respond to any such strikes by targeting US and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-war-world-economy-facing-major-threat-iea-head-says\/live-76478747\">Fatih Birol, also warned that the current economic instability caused by the war with Iran<\/a> had the potential to\u00a0prove more severe than the two oil shocks of the 1970s and the aftermath of Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine combined.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This crisis as things stand is now <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-war-and-energy-prices-attack-on-south-pars-raises-more-energy-fears\/a-76432233\">two oil crises and one gas crash put all together<\/a>,&#8221; Birol said, describing the situation as a &#8220;major, major threat&#8221; to the global economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rising energy prices are also confouding investors&#8217; hopes of likely interest rate cuts, which they previously anticipated in the course of this year, because higher fuel costs apply inflationary pressure that makes it riskier for central banks to reduce the cost of borrowing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Edited by: Elizabeth Schumacher<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div data-tracking-skip=\"true\" data-tracking-name=\"rich-text\" class=\"c17j8gzx rc0m0op r1ebneao s198y7xq rich-text l1evdo4u blt0baw s16w0xvi rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/dax-and-other-stock-markets\/t-19102522\">Stock markets<\/a> dipped across the board early on Monday, with traders nervous after another weekend yielded no real signs of deescalation in Iran or the wider Gulf region or a reduction in the rising <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/oil-gas-industry\/t-19021263\">energy prices<\/a> the conflict is causing.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the major Asian markets dipped by 3% or more, while Europe&#8217;s main indices all shed in the region of 2% in morning trading, government bond yields were up and even the traditional safe havens <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/gold\/t-75771877\">gold<\/a> and silver shed more than 6% and 7% of their values.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"placeholder-image master_landscape big\"><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"76483413\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76483413_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"People stand in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Monday, March 23, 2026, in Tokyo. \"><figcaption class=\"img-caption\">At its lowest ebb, Japan&#8217;s Nikkei was down nearly 5% in a single day, but it recovered slightly before the close of trade<small class=\"copyright\">Image: Eugene Hoshiko\/AP Photo\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Where did\u00a0key\u00a0stocks and prices stand on Monday?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Major indices were in the red almost across the board after a weekend of inactivity, with some of the key stats as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Germany&#8217;s DAX dipped during the morning, and was down by just over 2% as of midday local time<\/li>\n<li>France&#8217;s CAC 40 was also roughly 2% down, while the FTSE 100 in London logged similar numbers until a small spike recouped much of the losses late in the morning<\/li>\n<li>Japan&#8217;s benchmark Nikkei 225 closed down 3.5% at 51,515.49, having dipped lower still in the course of the day<\/li>\n<li>South Korea&#8217;s Kospi nosedived by roughly 6.5% to 5,405.75<\/li>\n<li>Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng\u00a0was down 3.5%, while the Shanghai Composite shed 3.6% in a single day<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan&#8217;s Taiex shed 2.5% while Australia&#8217;s A&amp;P\/ASX 200 fared somewhat better, sliding by just 0.7%<\/li>\n<li>Gold and silver, major gainers in recent years, were both in freefall, down almost 7% and 8%, respectively<\/li>\n<li>Crude oil was one of few prices to rise, but only marginally<\/li>\n<li>Western governments&#8217; 10-year bond yields also showed modest gains across the board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s DAX, like most major western markets, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/how-oil-price-hikes-threaten-germanys-economy\/a-76330530\">has been sliding rapidly<\/a> throughout the month since <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-israel-war-with-iran\/t-76168615\">the US and Israeli strikes on Iran<\/a> that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many other senior officials starting on February 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The main German index slipped below 22,000 points on Monday, having traded higher than 25,000 prior to the first attacks on Tehran. That&#8217;s a dip of more than 12%. It&#8217;s now reached its lowest ebb since early April last year, in the aftermath of the panic caused by US President Donald Trump&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs imposed on most of the world, including Europe.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s CAC 40 has also shed 11% of its value in a month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s FTSE 100 has fared slightly better, sliding 6.67% in a month, perhaps in part because of the UK&#8217;s own oil resources. US markets have slid more or less in line with the values seen in the UK, with the Dow Jones down about 6.6% and the S&amp;P 500 shedding almost 5% of its value in that period.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"placeholder-image master_landscape big\"><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"76483436\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76483436_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\" A person looks at an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index chart at a securities firm Monday, March 23, 2026, in Tokyo.\"><figcaption class=\"img-caption\">A longer term Nikkei chart shows a similar drop-off in the month of March to most of the world&#8217;s stock markets amid the fighting in the Middle East<small class=\"copyright\">Image: Eugene Hoshiko\/AP Photo\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Strait of Hormuz still blocked, no real signs of regional de-esclation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s slide comes after Trump&#8217;s weekend threat that the US would &#8220;obliterate&#8221; Iran&#8217;s power plants unless if fully opens the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, which prompted Tehran to say that it would respond to any such strikes by targeting US and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-war-world-economy-facing-major-threat-iea-head-says\/live-76478747\">Fatih Birol, also warned that the current economic instability caused by the war with Iran<\/a> had the potential to\u00a0prove more severe than the two oil shocks of the 1970s and the aftermath of Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine combined.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This crisis as things stand is now <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-war-and-energy-prices-attack-on-south-pars-raises-more-energy-fears\/a-76432233\">two oil crises and one gas crash put all together<\/a>,&#8221; Birol said, describing the situation as a &#8220;major, major threat&#8221; to the global economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rising energy prices are also confouding investors&#8217; hopes of likely interest rate cuts, which they previously anticipated in the course of this year, because higher fuel costs apply inflationary pressure that makes it riskier for central banks to reduce the cost of borrowing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Edited by: Elizabeth Schumacher<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/dax-and-other-stock-markets\/t-19102522\">Stock markets<\/a> dipped across the board early on Monday, with traders nervous after another weekend yielded no real signs of deescalation in Iran or the wider Gulf region or a reduction in the rising <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/oil-gas-industry\/t-19021263\">energy prices<\/a> the conflict is causing.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the major Asian markets dipped by 3% or more, while Europe&#8217;s main indices all shed in the region of 2% in morning trading, government bond yields were up and even the traditional safe havens <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/gold\/t-75771877\">gold<\/a> and silver shed more than 6% and 7% of their values.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Major indices were in the red almost across the board after a weekend of inactivity, with some of the key stats as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s DAX, like most major western markets, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/how-oil-price-hikes-threaten-germanys-economy\/a-76330530\">has been sliding rapidly<\/a> throughout the month since <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-israel-war-with-iran\/t-76168615\">the US and Israeli strikes on Iran<\/a> that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many other senior officials starting on February 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The main German index slipped below 22,000 points on Monday, having traded higher than 25,000 prior to the first attacks on Tehran. That&#8217;s a dip of more than 12%. It&#8217;s now reached its lowest ebb since early April last year, in the aftermath of the panic caused by US President Donald Trump&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs imposed on most of the world, including Europe.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s CAC 40 has also shed 11% of its value in a month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s FTSE 100 has fared slightly better, sliding 6.67% in a month, perhaps in part because of the UK&#8217;s own oil resources. US markets have slid more or less in line with the values seen in the UK, with the Dow Jones down about 6.6% and the S&amp;P 500 shedding almost 5% of its value in that period.<\/p>\n<p><span>Strait of Hormuz still blocked, no real signs of regional de-esclation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s slide comes after Trump&#8217;s weekend threat that the US would &#8220;obliterate&#8221; Iran&#8217;s power plants unless if fully opens the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, which prompted Tehran to say that it would respond to any such strikes by targeting US and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-war-world-economy-facing-major-threat-iea-head-says\/live-76478747\">Fatih Birol, also warned that the current economic instability caused by the war with Iran<\/a> had the potential to\u00a0prove more severe than the two oil shocks of the 1970s and the aftermath of Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine combined.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This crisis as things stand is now <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-war-and-energy-prices-attack-on-south-pars-raises-more-energy-fears\/a-76432233\">two oil crises and one gas crash put all together<\/a>,&#8221; Birol said, describing the situation as a &#8220;major, major threat&#8221; to the global economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rising energy prices are also confouding investors&#8217; hopes of likely interest rate cuts, which they previously anticipated in the course of this year, because higher fuel costs apply inflationary pressure that makes it riskier for central banks to reduce the cost of borrowing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Edited by: Elizabeth Schumacher<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/global-markets-tumble-with-no-end-to-iran-war-in-sight\/a-76482613&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76483385_6.jpg&#8221;] https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/5AucX Frankfurt&#8217;s cherry blossoms may be blooming, but the DAX is wilting amid the conflict in the Middle EastImage: Florian Gaul\/greatif\/picture alliance Stock markets dipped across the board early on Monday, with traders nervous after another weekend yielded no real signs of deescalation in Iran or the wider Gulf region or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,74],"class_list":["post-1841697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-dw-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1841697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1841697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1841697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1841697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}