{"id":72393,"date":"2026-04-20T08:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/04\/20\/asian-shares-rise-despite-mideast-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:38:21","slug":"asian-shares-rise-despite-mideast-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/04\/20\/asian-shares-rise-despite-mideast-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Shares Rise Despite Mideast Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Asian stocks ended mostly higher on Monday, even as regional gains remained modest somewhat amid uncertainty surrounding the second round of diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced delegation to Islamabad, Iran rejected participation in a second round of peace talks, citing Washinton&#8217;s excessive demands, unrealistic expectations, constant shifts in stance, repeated contradictions, and the continuing naval blockade, which it considers a breach of the ceasefire. <\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall-wrapper\">\n<p><i class=\"bi bi-lock-fill\"\/> Subscribe to continue reading the article.<\/p>\n<p>This article is part of our premium content offering.Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe Now<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Asian Shares Rise Despite Mideast Tensions<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-04-20 08:38:21<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian stocks ended mostly higher on Monday, even as regional gains remained modest somewhat amid uncertainty surrounding the second round of diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran. Hours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asian-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/72394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}