Oil prices and safe-haven assets jump following US missile strike on Syria

Brent crude climbed above $56 a barrel

Tom Eckett
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Oil prices climbed to one-month highs on Friday while investors flocked to safe-haven assets, after the US launched a missile strike on an airbase in Syria in response to recent chemical weapon attacks.

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