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Update: Markets fluctuate following Iran airstrikes

Oil price and stock market reaction to Iran's airstrike on US military targets in Iraq

Oil prices and global stock markets have fluctuated following Iran's airstrike on US military targets in Iraq late on Tuesday. We hear from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Sameer Hashmi in Dubai, Professor Rockford Weitz at the Fletcher School of Law and diplomacy in Massachusetts and Susan Schmidt of Aviva Investors in Chicago. Also in this edition, the World Bank warns on global growth for 2020, shaving 0.2 percentage points from it's predictions. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Andrew Walker has spoken to one of the report's main authors, Franziska Ohnsorge.

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