THE ongoing hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hamas have had little impact on the US stock markets so far, a top official of American stock exchange and financial technologies provider Nasdaq Inc. said.

'As much as the tragedy in the Middle East is a tragedy, and it's hard to watch every day at the moment, that's not impacting the markets to a large degree, unless there's going to be even more escalation,' Nelson Griggs, president of Capital Access Platforms at Nasdaq Inc., told a media briefing during the company's 10th anniversary in the Philippines.