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Israel and Iran continued to exchange airstrikes on Wednesday while the US moved fighter jets to the region.

Interest rate speculation and Middle East uncertainty today held back European markets during a lacklustre session for the FTSE 100 index.

Shares in Wilmar, one of a handful of Southeast Asian firms to make the Global 500, dropped 3% on the news.

Asian shares are mixed and oil prices have advanced after the escalation of conflict in the Middle East hit Wall Street

Crude oil prices jump more than 4 percent on fears the US may join Israel’s offensive against Iran.

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Oil prices stabilised Wednesday after surging the previous day on fears of a US intervention in the Israel-Iran conflict sparked by Donald Trump calling for Tehran's "unconditional surrender".

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Australian shares have continued to slip, as global growth concerns push miners lower and the ongoing Middle East conflict weighs on investor confidence.

Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign of the Shah of Iran, whose security services brutalized Iranian citizens for decades.

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