Global Financial News: Investors Continue to Retreat Into Risk-Free Assets

This is your round-up of the financial news from around the world:

1. Global investors continue to retreat into risk-free assets amid rising geopolitical tensions

2. Gold's rise mimicked safe-haven flows in overnight Asia trading, where benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasuries yields fell to 2.28%

3. Tesco plc (TSCDY)  posted a mixed set of full year results Wednesday as the U.K.'s biggest food retailer continues to fight through a fiercely competitive market that is being hit hard by rising prices and flat domestic wages

4. Akzo Nobel NV (AKZOY)  has accused one of its biggest shareholders of planning to share price-sensitive information with rival PPG Industries (PPG) - Get Report  and rejected calls for the dismissal of its chairman amid an increasingly hostile takeover showdown.