Topline Ukraine’s foreign minister said it is “two steps away” from an agreement with Russia for security measures to resume shipments of grain – the country’s biggest export – as Russian civilian air...
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Most Ukrainian Refugees Want To Return Home But Are Waiting The War Out, U.N. Study Finds
Topline Most refugees from Ukraine hope to return home eventually but are waiting until fighting subsides, according to a new report from the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) published Wednesday...
Despite Their Thirst For Oil, China And India Will Never Depend On Russia
China’s President Xi Jinping (L) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (R) attend the opening … [+] ceremony of “The Year of Chinese Tourism in Russia” in Moscow, on March...
Russia’s Failure To Reopen Nord Stream Pipeline Would Cripple Germany’s Economy
The critical Nord Stream 1 pipeline is closed for routine maintenance. There is concern that it may … [+] not reopen if Russia decides to escalate the Ukraine conflict. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Get...
Euro And Dollar Are Equal For First Time In 20 Years–Here’s What It Means For Americans
Topline The euro and the U.S. dollar are equal for the first time in 20 years, as Russia threatens to cut off gas to the west and inflation rates soar, sparking fears of a European recession. The euro...
Russian Overreach Gives New Urgency To Arctic Emergency Drills
Exercise Argus participants meet off Greenland. U.S. Coast Guard It is no secret that the consequences of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine stretch far beyond the European battlefield. In the far n...
U.S. emissions caused $1.8 trillion in global economic losses: study
An aerial view of Phillips 66 oil refinery is seen in Linden, New Jersey, United States on March 8, 2022. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The U.S. and China, the world’s two greate...
Markets Plan Doomsday Scenarios If Russia Turns Off the Gas
(Bloomberg) — European stocks plunging 20%. Junk credit spreads widening past 2020 crisis levels. The euro sinking to just 90 cents. Most Read from Bloomberg The predictions are ominous for fina...
PepsiCo (PEP) Q2 2022 earnings beat Wall Street estimates
A customer holds a can of Pepsi beverage at a shopping mall on March 9, 2022 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province of China. VCG | Getty Images PepsiCo on Tuesday raised its revenue outlook for the year, as ...
The Central Bank of Russia opposes private stablecoins
For an extended period, Russia’s financial systems have opposed private stablecoins. This is especially true of the Central Bank of Russia. In a new episode of the long-standing rivalry between The Ce...
Ukraine War Choking Russia’s Media Business Into Oblivion
A woman looks at a computer screen watching a dissenting Russian Channel One employee entering … [+] Ostankino on-air TV studio during Russia’s most-watched evening news broadcast, holding...
Bank of Russia is opposed to the use of privately issued stablecoins –
– Advertisement – The Bank of Russia takes a stance against the use of private stablecoins inside the nation In the latest development of the ongoing conflict between the Central Bank of R...
Bank of Russia opposes private stablecoins in the country
In a fresh episode of the longstanding battle between the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and the country’s Ministry of Finance, representatives of the former have criticized the latter’s idea of s...
Russia is ready to accept international payments in crypto
Russia’s financial regulatory authority is ready to give the okay for international crypto payments. Russia: international crypto payments, but not within the country Russia attempts to settle interna...
There’s Been A Pause In The ‘Russia Exit’
Companies from the U.S. and Europe were quick to leave Russia at the start of the Ukraine war. Those … [+] that are there still might be staying for longer. getty Four months ago, leaving Russia...
Russia Shuts Down Gas Pipeline For Maintenance—Europe Holds Breath, Worried It Won’t Re-Open
Topline Russia has shut down the supply of natural gas to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline on Monday to carry out scheduled maintenance, a move that raised fears in Europe of a possible exten...
Every Army Fighting In Ukraine Is Suffering Horrific Casualties
Ukrainian defense ministry photo As Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds toward its fifth month, the army of the separatist “republic” in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast still is losing 10 soldiers k...
Russia boosting crypto monitoring as industry regulation draws closer: Reuters
Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, said it is upgrading its ability to track cryptocurrency transactions as Moscow looks to regulate the industry, possibly later this year, ...
Desperate Russian Troops Apparently Lobbed Anti-Air Missiles At Ukrainian Targets On Land
Russian S-300s. Russian state media photo Russian forces in Ukraine reportedly have fired S-300 anti-aircraft missiles at Ukrainian targets … on the ground. If true, that’s yet more evidence of ...
Russia plans to build a crypto trading platform similar to the Moscow Exchange
The Chairman of the Financial Markets Committee at the State Duma, Anatoly Aksakov, has said that the Russian government could create a crypto trading platform similar to the Moscow exchange. This pla...
US Diplomats Target Japanese Crypto Companies in Russia
The United States has appealed to Japan to dial up the pressure on its cryptocurrency exchanges doing business with Russia. U.S. diplomats have asked Japanese officials to target crypto operations in ...
Russia Mulling the Idea to Build a Crypto Platform on the Moscow Stock Exchange
Russian lawmakers are mulling the idea that the government could create a cryptocurrency trading platform that will be an offshoot of the Moscow Stock Exchange. Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the State...
Japan Forced To Curb Crypto Exchanges and Miner’s Ties With Russia
Bitcoin News US officials have identified the region of Siberia as a key crypto mining center. A call has been sent to 31 Japanese crypto exchanges. It has been reported by the Financial Times that US...
US Asks Japan to Pressure Crypto Exchanges, Miners Working With Russia, Report Unveils – Bitcoin News
U.S. diplomats have reportedly called on authorities in Tokyo to increase pressure on Japanese crypto exchanges and miners to sever links to Russia. The request was made to deepen Moscow’s financial i...
US diplomats call on Japan’s crypto exchanges to cut ties to Russia: Report
Officials representing the United States government have reportedly urged Japan’s licensed cryptocurrency exchanges to stop doing business with Russia, seemingly as part of the country’s economic sanc...
Russia Could Build a Crypto Platform Similar to the Moscow Exchange: Government Official
Anatoly Aksakov – Chairman of the Committee on Financial Markets of the State Duma – said the government is not against the creation of a cryptocurrency trading venue in Russia. However, the entity sh...
The US Dollar Is Still King, And Investors Can Make The Most Of It
Getty Images Key takeaways The US dollar rose to fresh 20-year highs this week Meanwhile, the euro fell below $1.02 for the first time since 2002 Rising energy prices, tightening central bank policies...
Top Kremlin Official Lavrov Throws Fit At G20 Meeting
Topline Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stormed out of a meeting at Friday’s Group of 20 summit of foreign ministers in Bali, Indonesia, according to multiple reports, in a predictably dramatic...
G7’S Overambitious Plan To Punish Russian Oil And Alter The Future Of Oil Markets
The facilities of the oil refinery on the industrial site of PCK-Raffinerie GmbH are illuminated in … [+] the evening. Crude oil from Russia arrives at the oil refinery via the “Friendship...
People ‘Can Be Imprisoned For Almost Anything’
Russian police officers detain a man during a protest rally against the military invasion of … [+] Ukraine, on March 6, 2022, in Moscow. (Photo by Vladimir Pesnya/Epsilon/Getty Images) Getty Ima...
Ukrainian Troops Just Hoisted Their Flag On Snake Island—Then Speeded Away As Russian Missiles Rained Down
Ukrainian forces on Snake Island on July 7, 2022. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A team of Ukrainian troops riding in at least one machine-gun-armed small boat landed on Snake Island around dawn on ...
Nvidia Stock Gets a Price Target Cut. Russia and China Will Hurt Sales.
Text size Nvidia has said that Covid-19 lockdowns in China, plus the suspension of sales in Russia, will reduce its second-quarter revenue by $500 million. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Nvidi...