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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jeremy Cutler

Stocks swing wildly as Trump cools Iran rhetoric

Visitors to Greenwich Park, London look out towards Canary Wharf (John Walton/PA) - (PA Archive)

The FTSE 100 ended a rollercoaster day in the red on Monday, although it was well above earlier hefty lows on hopes of an end to the Iran war.

US President Donald Trump said that he had instructed strikes against Iranian energy sites to be postponed for five days, and that talks were under way to end hostilities.

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