Israel-Iran conflict puts investors on shaky ground

The conflict between Israel and Iran is intensificationThe two countries not backing up strikes and their leaders who continue to deliver animated rhetoric. The prospect of the United States Potentially join the fray – that Russia warned would cause “a terrible climbing spiral” – puts the world on the edge of a knife.

This discomfort is reflected in the markets. While the American exchanges were closed Thursday for a vacation, Futures retired to the local time of the evening. Through the Atlantic, travel and leisure actions have suffered the most while the Middle East conflict has thrown a Shadow on international aviation.

At the Air Paris Fair, however, aircraft manufacturers still reserve billions of orders. Airbus had obtained more than $ 20 billion in offers from Thursday Reuters calculations. That said, these encouraging figures may not reflect immediate optimism on the global economy or geopolitics – planes take years to deliver, and Airbus and Boeing have a backlog more than 8,000 And 5,000 had respectively.

Until investors have a clearer idea to know if the United States will launch strikes on Iran, the markets are not likely to find solid terrain.

– Yeo Boon Ping

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