{"id":79822,"date":"2026-10-26T12:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/10\/26\/wall-street-set-to-open-moderately-higher-on-middle-east-de-escalation-hopes\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:16:34","slug":"wall-street-set-to-open-moderately-higher-on-middle-east-de-escalation-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/10\/26\/wall-street-set-to-open-moderately-higher-on-middle-east-de-escalation-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Set To Open Moderately Higher On Middle East De-escalation Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Middle East conflict is expected to take a new turn, with Qatar taking a lead in diplomatic efforts to calm down the situation in coordination with the U.S. and Iran. <\/p>\n<p>A slew of central bank meetings, including the U.S. Federal Reserve&#8217;s policy meeting set for Tuesday and Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>In the Asian trading hours, oil prices fell more than 2 percent. Brent crude futures slumped 2.1 percent to $114.29 a barrel. WTI crude futures plummeted 2.5 percent to $100.73 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Gold edged higher. Spot gold rose half a percent to $4,017.37 an ounce. U.S. gold futures were up 0.6 percent at $4,030.75.<\/p>\n<p>Early signs from the U.S. Futures Index suggest that Wall Street might bounce back to open positive.<\/p>\n<p>As of 7.55 am ET, the Dow futures were up 223.00 points, the S&amp;P 500 futures were adding 28.75 points and the Nasdaq 100 futures were progressing 171.25 points.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. major averages ended Friday in negative territory. The Dow slumped 652.82 points or 1.2 percent to 52,215.16. The S&amp;P 500 also fell 39.75 or 0.5 percent to a one-month closing low of 7,623.68, while the Nasdaq slipped 53.52 points or 0.2 percent to 25,955.34.<\/p>\n<p>On the economic front, the Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey for October will be issued at 10.30 am ET. The consensus is 7.0, while it was up 9.8 in the prior month. <\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Fed Fed National Activity Index for September will be released at 8.30 am ET. The consensus is for a decline of 0.1, while it was down 0.04 in the prior month. <\/p>\n<p>The 2-year Treasury Note auction will be held at 1.00 pm ET. <\/p>\n<p>Asian stocks ended mixed on Monday. China&#8217;s Shanghai Composite index edged up 0.19 percent to 3,697.52. Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng index rose 0.51 percent to 23,211.81.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> fell at the close. The Nikkei average dropped 0.80 percent to 62,189.65 while the broader Topix index settled 0.18 percent higher at 3,972.98.<\/p>\n<p>Australian markets ended slightly higher. The benchmark S&amp;P\/ASX 200 inched up 0.17 percent to 8,809.90. The broader All Ordinaries index closed 0.23 percent higher at 8,926.60. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Business News<\/p>\n<\/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 \/>Wall Street Set To Open Moderately Higher On Middle East De-escalation Hopes<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-10-26 12:16:34<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle East conflict is expected to take a new turn, with Qatar taking a lead in diplomatic efforts to calm down the situation in coordination with the U.S. and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-us-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79822","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=79822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}