Oil prices jump and Asian shares slip as US and Iran carry out airstrikes | World
• Oil prices for Brent and U.S. benchmark crude jumped following a series of retaliatory airstrikes between the United States and Iran. • Asian stock markets reacted negatively to the geopolitical tension, with the Shanghai Composite index dropping 1.2% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng edging up only 0.1%. • Major South Korean tech firms saw significant losses, as Samsung Electronics sank 6.7% and SK Hynix slumped 10.6% in Seoul trading.
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