Here’s How The Conflict In Iran Is Affecting Markets
CNBC·2026-03-02 18:30
Unfortunately, there's a long history of regional Middle East conflicts and the markets need to adapt to that. So that means there's a lot of historical precedent for how markets do digest these events. Now, what we can basically say is that such conflicts tend not to end a bull market in stocks.In fact, it's almost never happened. In fact, in 1990, in 2003, the outbreak of hostilities between the U.S. and Iraq actually triggered an end of a bear market in the beginning of an upturn. That being said, usuall ...