📊 GOLD back to $4,700++

BREAKING: 🚨🚨 US crude oil price plunges by over 12% on reports of advanced talks between US and Iran.

🚨 IRAN WARNS OF HARSH RESPONSE

Ebrahim Rezaei dismissed U.S. demands as unrealistic, saying Washington won’t gain through conflict what it failed to secure in talks. He added Iran is ready to act and warned of a severe, regret-inducing response to any provocation.

🚨 TRUMP: IF IRAN DOESN’T AGREE TO DEAL, THE BOMBING STARTS

TRUMP: IF IRAN AGREES, THEN EPIC FURY WILL END, HORMUZ WILL OPEN

🇮🇷 Iran has launched a new website called the "Persian Gulf Strait Authority" to oversee traffic through the Strait of Hormuz just minutes after an Axios report claimed a deal was near to end the war and reopen Hormuz.

The site signals plans to charge ships for safe passage and vessels are expected to receive rules and instructions via email under the new system.

US oil prices are now up +5% from their low of the day.

🇺🇸 U.S. oil exports surge to a record high of 8.2 million barrels per day.

🇺🇸 81% of young Americans say economic conditions are bad or terrible, per the Hill.

JUST IN: 🇰🇷 Korea's Samsung Electronics hit a $1T market cap

The stock is up 107% YTD

🇺🇸 S&P 500 just hit a new all time high after rallying 16% in just 5 weeks.

More than $8 trillion has been added over the same time period.

🚨 JPMorgan offered a former banker $1 million to settle his lurid sex claims weeks before he filed a lawsuit that has captivated Wall Street.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Donald Trump says jobs and 401(k)s are "BOOMING.".

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 $1 trillion added to US stock market today.

JUST IN: 🚨 World Health Organization says there are now 5 confirmed hantavirus cases.

#BREAKING: 🚨 Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to hold a media briefing on the hantavirus virus today.

🇺🇸 U.S. M2 Money Supply hits new all-time high of $22.7 Trillion.

BREAKING: 🚨 There are now 7 confirmed hantavirus cases, World Health Organization announces.

JUST IN: 📣 Director-General of the World Health Organization to hold media briefing on the hantavirus outbreak at 9 AM ET.

🇺🇸 US weekly jobless claims rose to 200,000, below the 205,000 estimate.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 US officials say the US is looking to restart “Project Freedom” to unblock the Strait of Hormuz.

JUST IN: 🚨 India faces Diet Coke shortage tied to aluminum disruptions from the Strait of Hormuz