President Donald Trump this week said a sweeping peace deal with Iran could be signed very soon, echoing dozens of similar claims he has made over nearly three months.
The latest example may not resonate with the average listener — after all, no deal has emerged following any of Trump’s dozens of claims so far. But despite the lack of follow-through, markets continue to react to the president’s repeated promises.
Trump has signaled or stated outright more than 30 times that a deal is nearly at hand, according to a CNBC review of the president’s social media posts and public remarks.
Stocks and oil markets, which have squirmed amid a global energy supply shock caused by the war, continue to pay close attention to Trump’s signals about a forthcoming deal, even when they don’t pan out. Meanwhile, more than 100 days into the war, Washington and Tehran seem to be even further from a deal than they were in mid-April, when they began a fragile ceasefire that was heralded as a path to a final agreement within two weeks.
“The market has had the hope that this is going to end any moment, any moment, any moment,” Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at One Point BFG Wealth Partners, told CNBC. “I still think it’s grabbing onto that hope.”
The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on this report.
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