Share prices tumbled and key commodity prices surged as the financial markets reacted to the news on Thursday that Russia had launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine. Germany’s DAX index had plummeted by just below 4% at close of play, falling to 14,052.10 points. At the end of trading, the MDax, the index for medium-sized companies, had slipped by 3.84% to 30,663.58 points. Britain’s FTSE 100 index saw its biggest one-day fall since June 2020. By the end of trading on Thursday, £77 billion ($103 billion) had been wiped from the value of the Britain’s 100 biggest listed companies, the Press As…