{
  "id": 260858,
  "title": "Bitcoin hovers below $65,000 as Middle East tensions escalate further",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/bitcoin-hovers-below-65-000-as-middle-east-tensions-escalate-further",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-07T10:36:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CoinDesk",
    "slug": "coindesk",
    "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/08/07/cmt"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "US stocks finished lower on Thursday, after a strong start to the week. Investors were digesting corporate earnings and looking for signs of progress towards a peace deal between the US and Iran.\n\nOil prices rose, with US crude settling at $77.29 a barrel and Brent crude at over $82 a barrel, and later $83 a barrel, after Yemen’s Iran-linked Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia. An Iranian parliamentary committee is reviewing a preliminary bill that would bar US, Israeli and other “hostile” vessels from transiting the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nThe Dow Industrials and S&P 500 had reached record highs earlier in the week, helped by a robust earnings season and growing optimism over a potential end to hostilities in the Iran war. According to Robert Bernstone, head of trading at SummitTX Capital in New York, investors may be experiencing \"headline fatigue\" around Iran.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Straits Times Business",
        "title": "Dow, S&P slip as investors eye Middle East talks, earnings",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/dow-s-p-slip-as-investors-eye-middle-east-talks-earnings",
        "published": "2026-08-06T21:25:15.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "FXStreet",
        "title": "WTI holds firm near $77.50 as escalating Middle East tensions threaten oil supply routes",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/wti-holds-firm-near-77-50-as-escalating-middle-east-tensions-threaten",
        "published": "2026-08-07T00:46:03.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}