AP NewsWatch

0:00I'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.