U.S. Stock Futures Fall After Airstrike Kills Iranian Commander
- S&P 500 contracts slide, oil surges after attack in Baghdad
- Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vows ‘severe retaliation’
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U.S. stock-index futures fell after an American airstrike in Iraq killed a top Iranian commander.
S&P 500 Index futures contracts expiring in March were down 1.1% as of 10:19 a.m. in London after the attack that killed Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general who led the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds force. Dow Jones Industrial Average contracts and those on the Nasdaq 100 also fell.