In the wake of Israel's strike on the Iranian capital, Asian markets commenced Friday trading on a bearish note, exacerbating pre-existing anxieties surrounding Iran's burgeoning nuclear ambitions and triggering a precipitous surge in crude oil prices, with both U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude experiencing marked appreciation; equity indices, including Tokyo’s Nikkei 225, Seoul's Kospi, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng, the Shanghai Composite Index, and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200, all succumbed to downward pressure, yet, despite the inherent systemic risk implicated by the Israeli incursion, Xu Tianchen of The Economist Intelligence posits a swift recuperation for Asian equities predicated on their circumscribed exposure to the immediate conflict zone and burgeoning economic interdependencies with comparatively insulated regions, such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE, contrasting with Thursday's bullish session in U.S. equities, buoyed by an encouraging inflation print that precipitated a concomitant decline in Treasury yields, thereby reinforcing anticipations of a prospective dovish pivot by the Federal Reserve later in the fiscal year, notwithstanding the persistent spectre of inflationary pressures stemming from Trump's protean tariff policies and the latent threat of macroeconomic recession.