{"id":72465,"date":"2026-04-21T03:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/04\/21\/asian-markets-trade-mostly-higher-112\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:20:22","slug":"asian-markets-trade-mostly-higher-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/04\/21\/asian-markets-trade-mostly-higher-112\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Markets Trade Mostly Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Asian stock <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> are trading mostly higher on Tuesday, despite the broadly negative cues from Wall Street overnight, as traders remain cautious and optimistic for a resolution to the U.S.-Iran war, even as tensions between Washington and Tehran continue to simmer ahead of a potential ceasefire deadline. Asian markets closed mostly higher on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">U.S. President Trump indicated that he is unlikely to extend the truce with Iran if no agreement is reached before its expiry Wednesday evening, Washington time. He has also threatened to destroy Iran&#8217;s power plants and bridges if the ceasefire lapses.<\/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<p>Business News<\/p>\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 Markets Trade Mostly Higher<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-04-21 03:20:22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian stock markets are trading mostly higher on Tuesday, despite the broadly negative cues from Wall Street overnight, as traders remain cautious and optimistic for a resolution to the U.S.-Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72465","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\/72465","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=72465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/72466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}