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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Graeme Wearden

Global stock markets fall and bonds jump as fears grow over Ukraine war

People pass the New York Stock Exchange with a US flag on it
New York opened in the red, with markets ‘rattled’ by the news that Ukraine had fired US-supplied long-range missiles into Russia. Photograph: Peter Morgan/AP

Global stock markets fell and bond prices have jumped after reports that Ukraine had fired a US-made long-range missile into Russia for the first time and Vladimir Putin approved changes to Moscow’s nuclear doctrine.

Investors dashed into safe-haven currencies such as the US dollar, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc on Tuesday, after the RBC-Ukraine news outlet reported that Kyiv had carried out its first strike on Russian territory using western-supplied missiles.

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