Asian shares slump; gold, oil soar after Iran strike on U.S. forces

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Asian shares slump; gold, oil soar after Iran strike on U.S. forces
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Asian shares and U.S. treasury yields plunged on Wednesday, while gold and oil s...

FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian stands to look at an electronic board showing the stock market indices of various countries outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Yuya Shino

Iran’s missile attacks on the Ain Al-Asad air base and another in Erbil, Iraq, early Wednesday came hours after the funeral of an Iranian commander whose killing in a U.S. drone strike has raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East.

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