David Brancaccio

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The price of oil plunges with this U.S.-Iran ceasefire and is now only 40% higher than it was before the U.S.

airstrikes began.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

Crude oil traded in New York is at $94 a barrel at the moment, down 17% in these early hours of a U.S.

and Iran ceasefire.

Dan Coatsworth is head of markets at AJ Bell in the U.K.

Tell you what, though, over out of the oil markets and into the equity markets, there is some kind of relief rally forming here.

One wonders if that early reaction is a bit overdone, given the fact that so much uncertainty still swirls.

Dan Coatsworth at the investment firm AJ Bell.