cease-fire
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The on-again, off-again nature of negotiations about a lasting cease-fire in the Gulf has also made calculations harder.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
U.S. stock-index futures largely erased initial losses Sunday, after a massive tech selloff on Friday interrupted Wall Street’s two-month rally, and after new developments threatened the fragile cease-fire in the Iran war.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
It was the first Iranian attack against Israel since the cease-fire agreement took effect in early April.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 7, 2026
U.S. stock-index futures largely erased initial losses Sunday, after a massive tech selloff on Friday interrupted Wall Street’s two-month rally, and after new developments threatened the fragile cease-fire in the Iran war.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Mum and Dad must've called a weird cease-fire while we'd been in the kitchen 'cause after the washing up they sat at the table and seemed to be talking normally about the day and stuff.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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