{"id":1493,"date":"2026-04-20T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:08:00","slug":"european-stock-markets-shares-record-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"European stock markets: shares record losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European <b>stock markets<\/b> started today&#8217;s session lower, with investors looking to developments in the <b>Middle East<\/b> and new escalation of tensions between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10:05 a.m. GMT, Paris was down 1.08 percent, Frankfurt 1.28 percent, Milan 1.27 percent and London 0.39 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Prices of <b>oil<\/b>, at the start of trading in Asia, were up, with that of <b>barrel WTI<\/b> jumping, up more than 7%.<\/p>\n<p>As of 02:30 (GMT), the price of a barrel of <b>West Texas Intermediate (WTI)<\/b>, the US benchmark variety, was up 7.67% at $90.28, while that of North Sea Brent, the international benchmark variety, was up 6.76% at $96.49.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, <b>prices had retreated to their lowest levels since early March,<\/b> after Tehran&#8217;s tentative announcement of an opening of the Straits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stock markets started today&#8217;s session with a decline, with investors&#8217; attention focused on developments in the Middle East and the new &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}