Iran warns of tougher response: Oil, gold and stocks to watch over the holiday weekend

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<p>Iran warns of tougher response: Oil, gold and stocks to watch over the holiday weekend</p><p>Iran’s latest warning puts oil supplies and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz back in focus for traders. Crude oil is the most direct market to watch, followed by gold and stock-index futures. Bitcoin and Ethereum can provide an earlier weekend indication of risk appetite, although their movements cannot reliably predict Tuesday’s stock-market direction.</p><p>Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said new attacks on the country would “meet a faster, heavier and more painful response”. Reuters separately reported his warning that further attacks would bring a stronger response. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-tackle-economic-issues-says-further-attacks-will-be-more-painful-2026-09-06/" rel="follow">Reuters</a></p><p>The warning followed U.S. Central Command’s statement that American forces struck three Iranian crude-oil tankers on Saturday after Iranian ballistic-missile attacks on two U.S. Navy ships. CENTCOM said no American personnel were injured. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-military-strikes-three-iranian-crude-oil-carriers-central-command-says-2026-09-05/" rel="follow">Reuters</a></p><p>According to an Al Jazeera update, the IRGC also said it attacked three U.S.-affiliated vessels and three oil tankers using what it described as an unauthorised route through Hormuz. That remains an Iranian claim; the excerpt doe