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truce

[troos] / trus /


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Today’s regular trading performance reflected concerns over whether the U.S. and Iran would find a way to uphold their truce before the cease-fire expired Wednesday.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

The talks went ahead anyway without a truce on that front, but the White House did ultimately deliver one days later.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

The truce theoretically ends overnight Tuesday, though in comments to Bloomberg, Trump said the end was a day later, on Wednesday evening Washington time and it would be "highly unlikely" he would extend the truce.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

That still leaves a significant risk, however, that the truce will not hold and events there this weekend past suggest that risk may grow.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, Arnold arranged for a boat, under a flag of truce, to take a Tory woman and her children across the Hudson to an area held by the British.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen




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