World shares mostly advance and oil prices dip after Israel and Hamas agree to pause fighting Updated 3 mins ago World shares are mostly higher after US stocks hit records again following a brief stumble. Markets in mainland China gained more than 1% as they reopened following a weeklong holiday. Gold shed some of its recent stellar gains. Oil prices dipped and then recovered after Israel and Hamas agreed to pause their fighting. On Wednesday, Wall Street’s pause from its record-breaking rally didn’t last long. The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% a day after snapping a seven-day winning streak, setting another all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended flat, while the Nasdaq composite rose 1.1% to its own record. Stocks benefiting from the artificial-intelligence boom continued to pull the

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