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Oil prices are falling and stocks are rebounding after US president Donald Trump said the war with Iran would end “very soon’.
Speaking from his Doral resort in Miami, the president described the war in Iran as a “little excursion” that had succeeded “much faster than we thought”.
He said his administration was “looking to keep the oil prices down”, as “they went artificially up because of this excursion”.
