Markets Fall as Iran Rejects Trump Peace Plan. Stock Futures Drop, Oil Prices Soar.

Stocks looked set to drop and oil prices rose on Thursday as investors worried about how peace talks to end the war in the Middle East are going. Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 269 points, or 0.6%. S&P 500 futures fell 0.7% and contracts tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 were 0.8% lower.