(Bloomberg) — U.S. stock index futures dropped after reports that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un underwent a medical procedure.Contracts on the S&P 500 slid as much as 1.2%, before paring their loss to 0.6% as of 12:22 p.m. in Tokyo. Futures dropped 0.5% on the Nasdaq 100 Index and 0.7% on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.The U.S. has information that Kim was in a critical situation after cardiovascular surgery last week, an official said. South Korean media reports suggested that Kim was recovering.North Korean “succession risk is causing global equity markets to buckle,” Stephen Innes, chief global market strategist at …read more
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