NewsWatch: What stock market investors need to know about intensifying U.S.-Iran tensions

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Consider it a wake-up call. Stock-market investors shouldn’t panic, but intensifying U.S.-Iran tensions bring home the potential for geopolitical turmoil to make for bumpier price action. See full story.

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