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Israel and Iran trade heavy strikes for a 4th day
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Stock futures wavered before Monday's session as the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran spiked oil prices and raised investors' concerns about the global economy. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures shed 56 points, or 0.1%. S&P 500 futures lost 0.1%, while Nasdaq 100 futures traded around their flatline.
Israel's attack on Iran raises questions like whether the US will get involved, how Iran will respond, and if a wider conflict may be triggered.
As the Israel-Iran conflict intensifies, India is increasingly at risk of collateral economic fallout, with energy security, trade routes, and key commercial interests facing growing uncertainty, it warned. The escalating hostilities, and rising regional tensions pose direct threats to India’s strategic and economic links with West Asia.
The retaliatory strikes came on Saturday, a day after Israel killed top Iranian military leaders and scientists and destroyed an aboveground nuclear enrichment plant near Natanz.
KANANASKIS, Alberta — Leaders of some of the world’s biggest economic powers arrive in the Canadian Rockies on Sunday for a Group of Seven summit, overshadowed by an escalating conflict between Israel and Iran and U.S. President Donald Trump’s unresolved trade war with allies and rivals alike.