The price of oil jumped as high as $105 a barrel, European natural gas futures soared 50 percent, and global stock indexes fell on Thursday as Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, extending market turmoil that had been driven by fears of a full-scale attack.The impact on financial and commodity markets from Russia’s overnight attack was immediate and broad, starting in Asia, where the Hang Seng in Hong Kong lost 3.2 percent. In Germany, the DAX index slid more than 4 percent, and the broader Stoxx Europe 600 was about 3.5 percent lower.On Wall Street, the S&P 500 tumbled 2.5 percent at the start of trading, before rebounding slightly as the initial panic seemed to ease somewhat. By midmorning, the index was down about 1.5 percent.The price of Brent crude oil, the global benchmark, was off its highest level of the day but still up more tha …
