Regional markets slump amid rising US-Iran tensions in the Middle East
6 Jan 2020
The National
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Most regional equity markets fell sharply yesterday, tracking the global slump on Friday as tensions between the US and Iran escalated following the killing of one of the Islamic republic's top generals in Baghdad. Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Islami