AP NewsWatch

I'm Ben Thomas with the AP News Minute.

Oil prices resume their rise today, while President Trump insists negotiations are taking

place to end the war, Iran fired a dozen missile salvos at Israel, which carried out strikes

on what it described as Iranian production sites.

Brent crude settled above $104 per barrel.

On Wall Street stocks closed lower, the Dow down 84.2% to 2.10%, the S&P dropped 4.10s

the Nasdaq 8.

Meanwhile, a poll finds Americans increasingly pessimistic about the job market.

Just 28% of workers in a Gallup survey conducted in the fourth quarter of last year said it

was a good time to find a job, with 72% saying it was a bad time.

Those figures are a sharp reversal from just a few years ago.

Pesimism is especially pronounced among young people and college graduates.

That could be because hiring in many white-coward professions has been unusually weak for the

past two years.

I'm Mike Hampton and I'm Ben Thomas.