US futures and Asian shares open lower, oil prices soar as US and Israeli attack Iran

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Affected assets and topics

Why it matters

US and Israeli attacks on Iran have caused a significant market downturn, with US futures and Asian shares opening lower and oil prices surging.

Expected market reaction

Bearish Confidence 90% How confidence is read Horizon: Short term Impact: High

Market impact analysis based on bearish sentiment with 90% confidence.

Evidence trail

Evidence
Source Yahoo Finance
Claim US futures and Asian shares open lower, oil prices soar as US and Israeli attack Iran
Affected assets NASDAQ, OIL
AI inference Bearish · 90%
Generated 2026-03-02 00:47

AI provenance

Analysed by Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) Methodology v1.0 Generated
Technical identifiers
Provider tag
groq-llama-3.1-8b-instant
Model id
llama-3.1-8b-instant
Analysis version
groq-llama-3.1-8b-instant
Article id
51781
Timeframe
6h

Prediction lifecycle

  • Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) NASDAQ Bearish 90% 6h
    Generated 6h Excluded

    Withdrawn: frozen reference price: 22716.13000000 is the reference price on 569 NASDAQ predictions spanning 32 days, so it cannot have been the market price at each of them

  • Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) OIL Bearish 90% 6h
    Generated 6h Excluded

    Excluded: reference price integrity check failed (withdraw_bad_reference_predictions): reference price 87.84000000 for OIL disagrees with the stored price 61.9500 at 2026-03-02 00:45:20+00:00 (nearest 2026-03-02 00:47:53+00:00) by 41.8%, beyond the 10% tolerance for commodity

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Original source

The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran rattled world markets early Monday, with U.S. futures falling more than 1% and oil prices soaring. The future for the Nasdaq composite slipped 1.1%. Traders were betting the supply of oil from Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East would slow or grind to a halt.

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Original article published by Yahoo Finance on March 2, 2026. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.

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