Asian stocks fall as US and Iran exchange fire – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news European stock markets have opened broadly flat, as investors look ahead to a key US inflation reading due later this afternoon. The UK’s blue chip FTSE 100 index has ticked up 0.1%. The German Dax and the French Cac 40 are also up by about 0.1%. The Stoxx Europe 600, which tracks the biggest companies on the continent, is up 0.07%. US May inflation data is due out later today, with economists expecting both core and headline inflation …

