U.S. airstrikes against Syria during early Asian trading hours on Friday sent investors scurrying for traditional safe-haven assets such as the Japanese yen and gold. The question in markets now is whether the Trump administration’s new foreign-policy tack will have a lasting effect on this year’s rally in risky assets around the world. The U.S. military fired dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles against an air base in response to this week’s suspected chemical-weapons attack in Syria. The move came a day after U.S....

Source: Wall Street Journal April 07, 2017 06:33 UTC