{"id":73495,"date":"2026-05-18T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/05\/18\/european-markets-close-on-firm-note-8\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:12:06","slug":"european-markets-close-on-firm-note-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/05\/18\/european-markets-close-on-firm-note-8\/","title":{"rendered":"European Markets Close On Firm Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">European stocks started off on a weak note on Monday but recovered and gained in strength as the day progressed after Iran said it had responded to a fresh proposal from the U.S. According to reports, Washington has reportedly proposed a temporary exemption from sanctions on Iranian oil exports.Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran the &#8220;clock is ticking.&#8221; Trump said in a post on Truth S&#8230;<\/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 \/>European Markets Close On Firm Note<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-05-18 17:12:06<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks started off on a weak note on Monday but recovered and gained in strength as the day progressed after Iran said it had responded to a fresh proposal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73495","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=73495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/73496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}