Energy Markets
Asian markets fall as US-Iran conflict lifts oil and bonds yields
The stock market fell at the beginning of Wednesday's Asian trading session as the panic caused by the bond markets on global markets spread to the region. This was after the renewed U.S. attacks on Iran pushed up oil prices. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific stocks outside Japan fell 0.8% at the opening, as South Korea's KOSPI plunged 3% and Japan's Nikkei225 dropped 2.2%. S&P 500 futures are flat. Brent crude futures continued to rise as trading resumed on Wednesday in Asia. They rose 0.7% to $95.34 per barrel, after U.S. airstrikes against?Iran, on Tuesday, had pushed the oil price...