Asian and European stocks gained and oil dipped Friday after US President Donald Trump withdrew his threat of further strikes on Iran and said a deal could be signed in the coming days.
Iran’s position remained unclear however, with foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei saying Tehran "had not reached a final conclusion on the agreement".
He added that "most of the text of the agreement was finalized, but the problem began when the US side made new demands and changed its positions".
The mood on equity markets was also buoyant ahead of the market debut later Friday of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the biggest initial public offering in history.
The $75-billion share sale puts SpaceX among Wall Street’s 10 biggest companies with a valuation of just under $1.8 trillion — ahead of Tesla, Facebook owner Meta, and Walmart.
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