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Are markets finally seeing a glimmer of calm in the Middle East?
It's World Business Express from the BBC World Service.
I am Bissi Adebayo.
India rolls out the red carpet for Vietnam's president, as the two countries look to deepen economic ties and will also look at what's driving big moves for Disney and Samsung.
So oil prices are trading lower after reports that the White House believes it's close to reaching an agreement with Iran.
At the same time, President Donald Trump says the US is pausing its operation to guide stranded ships through the Strait of Hormuz, saying the move is aimed at giving space for a possible peace deal to be finalized.
But then he warns that strikes will restart if one isn't reached.
Ross Mould from AJ Bell is with me.
Ross, tell us, how are the markets reacting at the moment?
Yesterday they were terrified of an escalation of the conflict.
Today they're celebrating the prospect of a de-escalation and possibly a peaceful solution.
So the oil price down 10% today looking at Brent crude at $103 a barrel.
Yesterday it reached $118 a barrel and last week it was $126.
So oil price down, share prices up by around 1% to 2% around the world amid hopes for a solution.
And talking about hoax, I'm sure many are wondering, what does this really mean for me right now?
Well, hopefully a humanitarian and peaceful solution brings peace to the Middle East and gives everybody time to repair the damage and get their lives back together.
For everybody else around the world who doesn't live in the region, it'll be about the oil and gas price.
How quickly can the damage be repaired?
Can the hydrocarbons start flowing? and that valuable energy prices start to go down.
Stay right there Russ, because this conflict is also starting to shape the way investors think about the Gulf more broadly.
So the UAE, once seen as a booming hub for property investors, with fast deals, soaring towers and global money flowing in, is now seeing a shift in mood as the result of the US-Iran conflict.
Investors who once moved quickly are now asking tougher questions about certainty and risk.
Khalid Choksi is a real estate investor in Dubai and here's what he said.
Obviously, you've got different levels of investors.
So you've got some investors which have been investing in Dubai for a period of time.
So they know the low cycles, the high cycles and so forth.
So they continue to invest and they continue to look for opportunities as well.
For example, just recently, there was a huge transaction, like you know, around 500 million, which took place.
Yesterday, there was a launch from one of the big developers.
In one day, they had more than 5000 registrations for the clients.
So this type of investor profile they believe in Dubai, you know.
They believe in the market, the property market and so forth.
Then you've got basically an investors like, you know, buyers who are new to Dubai.
So they haven't been in Dubai.
They don't know the system.
They don't know how it works.
So it's the first time they're a bit more cautious when buying.
So people who know Dubai, they're still investing.
But obviously for first time buyers, they are having more caution buying.
They want the situation to improve.
They want the full ceasefire to take place.
Once they see full control on it, then they will be in a position to buy.
That was Khalid Choksi speaking to me earlier.
Meanwhile, Mohamed Alaba, the founder of EMA Properties, remains optimistic.
It will take time for these people to come in, to come back.
So my estimate is that probably by November, we should be back to normal life.
This stage, we're delaying any tendering of some of our bigger buildings, just waiting for the coming few weeks, few months, for the situation to be clearer.
We are all in this.
China is in this.
America is in this.
India is in that.
Therefore, I really believe that it is for the world's sake that this will end soon.
Well, let's cross over to Asia now.
That's Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ceremonial welcome for Vietnam's President Tho Lam as he arrived in New Delhi today.
The three-day visit is aimed at deepening economic and strategic ties between the two countries.
Nga Pham is a journalist in Hanoi and she told me how this has been viewed in Vietnam.
During this visit, the Vietnamese delegation plans to discuss the purchase of missiles.
And that is very important for Vietnam, to improve their capability to protect the country in a very unstable, insecure environment these days.
Last year Vietnam-India trade balance was only 16 billion, quite small compared to say, Vietnam-China or Vietnam-US export-import volume.
The Vietnamese business circles want to increase that.
India is targeting trade worth $25 billion with Vietnam by 2030.
How will this happen?
The focus now is to exchange more traditional items that they've been trading for a long time, like electronics items with high technological values.
From India, Vietnam imports a lot of agricultural products and vice versa.
Vietnam also exports spices and other products to India.
So, apart from those traditional items, I think Vietnam wants to buy more from India to diversify their military sources, because they've been relying for a long time on Russia.
So now they want to get more technology from India in terms of maritime security.
And what about in terms of critical minerals and rare earths?
How achievable is this when we see global supply chains vulnerable at the moment?
You know, Japanese Prime Minister Takeuchi Sane just visited Vietnam, and rare earths were on the agenda.
Vietnam has quite a big reserve of rare earths.
But to explore that and to produce rare earths is a different problem.
Many countries near Vietnam, like South Korea or Japan, even China.
They want to get hold of the resources.
So yeah, I don't think India can actually compete.
Nga Pham, journalist in Hanoi.
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That's social media videos of popular weight loss injections.
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordic's shares have jumped 7 after posting better-than-expected first-quarter results, fueling the gains with strong demand for its new Wigaville visit appeal, which beats sales expectations.
And Disney has posted strong second quarter results, giving a solid start to what many are calling the Josh DeMauro era at the entertainment giant.
Ross Mill from Asia Bell is still very much with us.
Tell us, Ross, how significant are these results for the company right now?
It's a very big step, for the first step for the company and for Mr DeMauro is after he took over the company in March.
The shares up 8% on the New York Stock Exchange.
So starting to eat into that near 50% loss that the shareholders have suffered since 2021.
Films, parks, streaming all performed well.
And Mr DeMauro also outlined his strategy for the company going forward to try and accelerate its growth.
And Samsung's shares have been on a huge run.
The South Korean tech giant has now passed the $1 trillion mark for the first time.
What's going on?
The shares have nearly doubled on the Seoul Stock Exchange this year, and it's all about artificial intelligence and computing power and data.
Samsung is one of three companies that dominate the market for silicon chips for memory, along with Micron of America and another Korean firm, SK Hynix.
And they are currently making huge amounts of money as buyers of data, builders of data centers and AI companies scramble for computing power.
They're even talking about signing two-year supply deals.
And just before I let you go Ross, in the last hour, CNN has confirmed that the legendary founder Ted Turner has died at the age of 87.
That's such a big media name.
Phenomenal media name.
Turner Broadcasting was a huge player.
CNN was a television revolution in some ways for live news, thanks to the first Iraq War of 1991.
He eventually sold the business for 73 billion in shares to Time Warner in 1996, something he said he regretted and it was a personal disaster for him.
Time Warner was then bought by AOL.
The shares then collapsed.
So maybe that's just a gentle warning, a gentle echo from the past to the new owners of Warner Brothers Discovery Paramount, Skydance.
It's always a pleasure.
Ross Mould from AJ Bell.
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