{"id":1629606,"date":"2022-09-01T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629606"},"modified":"2022-09-01T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:35:09","slug":"european-markets-watchdog-on-red-alert-for-ukraine-war-contagion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/european-markets-watchdog-on-red-alert-for-ukraine-war-contagion\/","title":{"rendered":"European markets watchdog on red alert for Ukraine war contagion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feuropean-markets-watchdog-on-red-alert-for-ukraine-war-contagion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629606&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Huw Jones<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     The European Union\u2019s markets watchdog said on Thursday it was on red alert for contagion after inflation stoked by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has threatened markets\u2019 ability to function in an orderly way.<\/p>\n<p>The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in its latest risk monitor report gave an overall red risk rating for markets, with only credit risks and environmental risks flashing amber, and none green.<\/p>\n<p>Contagion and operational risks, such as liquidity, were very high, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Against a backdrop of already increasing inflation, the Ukraine war has profoundly impacted financial markets, leading to rapid price rises and volatility, especially in commodities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese present liquidity risks for exposed counterparties and show the continued importance of close monitoring to ensure orderly markets, a core objective for ESMA,\u201d Verena Ross, the watchdog\u2019s chair, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As European Union states revert to more polluting sources of energy, such as coal to cut dependence on Russian energy, EU investment funds, which tout their environment, social and governance (ESG) credentials saw net outflows for the first time in two years in March.<\/p>\n<p>But the fundamental shift into ESG investments continues overall, with ESG assets averaging 27% of the total in the second quarter of 2022, compared with under 10% in the first half of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine raised questions over the compatibility of sustainable investment practices with the financing of non-democratic regimes or weak democracies, ESMA added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russian invasion highlights the importance of the \u2018S\u2019 (social) pillar in ESG investing and its clear link to \u2018E\u2019 pillar,\u201d ESMA said.<\/p>\n<p>During the first half of 2022, there was also big drop in crypto-asset prices and liquidity, meaning investors with big positions have limited options to exit, ESMA said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Huw Jones; editing by Barbara Lewis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2743805\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI801GS-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI801GS-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 The European Union\u2019s markets watchdog said on Thursday it was on red alert for contagion after inflation stoked by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}