--- title: "Dow Jones Top Markets Headlines at 1 AM ET: Oil Rises Amid Rising Strait of Hormuz Tensions | Aborted ..." type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/284156123.md" description: "Oil prices rose in Asia due to escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, while regional equities followed Wall Street's gains. President Trump canceled a trip to Pakistan for Iran talks, leaving negotiations stalled. Corporate profits are increasing across various sectors despite challenges like war and inflation. China's industrial profits surged 15.8% in March amid tighter energy markets. Additionally, the nomination of Warsh for the Federal Reserve chair cleared a hurdle, and the stock market is buoyed by renewed interest in AI, with major tech companies set to report earnings soon." datetime: "2026-04-27T05:20:50.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/284156123.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/284156123.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/284156123.md) --- # Dow Jones Top Markets Headlines at 1 AM ET: Oil Rises Amid Rising Strait of Hormuz Tensions | Aborted ... Oil Rises Amid Rising Strait of Hormuz Tensions Oil rose in Asia amid rising tensions related to the Strait of Hormuz, while equities in the region advanced gained tracking Wall Street's gains on Friday. \---- Aborted Pakistan Trip Leaves Trump With Tough Choices on Iran Talks President Trump scrapped a trip by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan for talks with Iran, and the two sides remain far apart. \---- Corporate America Is Minting Money-and Not Just in Tech and Finance Profits grow for many companies in the face of war, rising oil prices and inflation; "it's extremely polarized." \---- China's Industrial Profits Jump Despite Tighter Energy Markets Industrial profit surged 15.8% in March despite tighter global energy markets due to the conflict in the Middle East. \---- Tillis Drops Objection to Warsh's Fed Nomination The move cleared the last significant obstacle to installing President Trump's pick to succeed Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman. \---- The AI Frenzy Is Back and Lifting the Entire Stock Market to Record Highs Signs of froth are everywhere, with the IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI expected to be the biggest ever and investors desperate to find ways in. \---- Wall Street Is Sorting Software Companies Into Winners and Losers The threat of artificial-intelligence tools has stirred fears about the future of software and what might happen to loans in the sector-but not all software companies are equally endangered. \---- Wall Street's Super Bowl Wednesday: Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta report along with Powell's last Fed meeting It's a historic Wednesday for Wall Street as Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta report alongside Jerome Powell's final press conference \---- Key Home Price Data Is Expected Tuesday. Where Listing Prices Are Rising and Falling Most This Spring. Home price gains likely inched up in February, according to estimates for a closely watched gauge that is due on Tuesday. \---- The Soldier Accused of Maduro Bets: 'Army People Don't Get the Business Stuff' Gannon Ken Van Dyke allegedly made more than $400,000, in part by using classified information to bet on the ousting of the Venezuelan leader. \---- Trump's Crypto Luncheon Draws 'Superstars.' But His Token Hovers Near Low. The president feted the biggest holders of his namesake memecoin at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday, cheering on a crypto market still fighting through a monthslong slump. \---- California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot, Backers Say Supporters of the measure say they've accumulated more than 1.5 million signatures, topping the 875,000 required to make the ballot. \---- Week Ahead for FX, Bonds: Major Central Bank Meetings Due as Middle East Conflict Continues A string of decisions by major central banks are due in the week ahead, including from the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England. \---- Two Big Loan Defaults Add to Pain in Private-Credit Funds Software maker Medallia and dental-services provider Affordable Care can't repay billions borrowed from private-credit lenders including Blackstone and KKR. 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