stock futures fell and oil prices jumped sunday evening as investors grappled with geopolitical developments including new sanctions by western countries against russia futures for the sp 500 dropped 26 while futures for the techheavy nasdaq100 index declined 27 the escalation of tensions over moscow’s invasion of ukraine has heightened anxieties in the financial markets us stocks endured a turbulent span last week as investors shifted bets on the situation in europe and how it might affect plans by the federal reserve to raise interest rates oil prices rebounded sunday with most actively traded futures for brent crude the global oil benchmark rising 44 to 9830 per barrel brent prices last week surged to about 100 a barrel for the first time since 2014 as investors calculated how the invasion could snarl the movement of resources in the region prices fell late in the week after initial sanctions on russia stopped short of what many traders considered the most severe measures that would slash supply in japan the nikkei 225 index was 03 lower and the csi 300 which comprises the largest stocks listed in shanghai and shenzhen fell 06 hong kong’s hang seng dropped 14 putting the index on course for its lowest close since march 2020