Global markets retreated on Friday, with Wall Street indexes retreating from earlier gains, after a report of Ukraine forces engaging a Russian armored column on Ukrainian soil.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.60 percent and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was down 0.44 percent. The Nasdaq composite index dropped 0.36 percent.
Yields on benchmark German bunds plumbed record lows below 1 percent on news of the military tensions. Ten-year British bond yields fell to 2.359 percent, the lowest since August 2013, while United States Treasury 10-year yields fell to 2.3221 percent.
MSCI's all-country world equity index fell 0.2 percent, while the FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European shares fell 0.45 percent, after trading 0.8 percent higher earlier in the session.
A Ukrainian military spokesman said that Ukraine forces had tracked the armored column after it crossed the border.
The Ukrainian president told British authorities that Ukraine artillery had destroyed part of the armored equipment that crossed the border during the night, according to a presidential website.
"Risk has evaporated from the markets after the Ukraine headlines," said Omer Esiner, chief market analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington. "We have seen investors use the yen and Swiss franc as safe harbors."
Recent trading has taken its cue from news overseas, with investors concerned about the potential impact of any exacerbation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, or in violence in Iraq.
Monster jumped 30 percent after Coca-Cola Co said it was buying a 16.7 percent stake in the company for $2.15 billion.
The stock was the S.&P.'s biggest gainer, followed by Applied Materials, up 5.2 percent a day after it reported third-quarter earnings that beat expectations.
And Berkshire Hathaway, controlled by Warren Buffett, disclosed a new $366 million stake in Charter Communications, part of a flurry of changes in its stock investments during the second quarter. It also trimmed its stake in DirecTV and is no longer reporting any stake in Starz.
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