The Iran Peace Deal Brings Relief. Central Banks Are Still Hiking.

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Luke Vargas· Host0:30

Here is your morning brief for Tuesday, June sixteenth. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. Leaders of the G7 are gathering on the shores of Lake Geneva today for their latest summit. And compared to more sleepy gatherings in recent years, policy action is front and center this time around, ahead of a signing ceremony scheduled for Friday to end the Iran war. If talk of Iran could be less heated with a peace deal in sight, a wild card today will come in the form of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, who, along with his European backers, is hoping that a combination of battlefield gains and Iran fading as a US priority will put his country back in the spotlight. While the details are still being worked out, President Trump's peace deal with Iran is fueling relief among central bankers worried about rising inflation. Concerns around runaway prices had prompted several banks to halt rate cuts this year and for some to begin hiking rates like last week's