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Oil is leading the geopolitical conversation this morning, with crude prices pushing higher after the weekend brought fresh warnings from President Trump directed at Tehran. The message was blunt — get moving, fast — and markets read it as a signal that the Iran-U.S. nuclear talks are closer to collapse than resolution, raising the real prospect of supply disruption from a region that still moves global barrels.
That tension is rippling directly into Asian equity markets, where indexes fell broadly overnight. Investors across the Asia-Pacific didn't wait for confirmation — they sold first and asked questions later, a classic risk-off response when geopolitical headlines carry enough weight to threaten energy costs and global growth assumptions simultaneously.
Pulling back to the tech sector, quantum computing names had a strong week, and there were two distinct catalysts. IonQ caught a bid on broader industry enthusiasm, while Quantum Computing itself surged after its first-quarter report showed revenues that beat expectations and losses that came in narrower than feared — exactly the combination that turns skeptical growth investors into believers, at least for a session.
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