IEA Plan Won’t Snip Europe’s Energy Ties To Russia

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – MARCH 17: A protestor ties his head to the goal post which interrupted play … [+] wearing a t-shirt saying Just Stop Oil during the Premier League match between Everto...

Nike (NKE) about to report Q3 2022 earnings: Here’s what to expect

Shoes line the shelves at the Nike store on December 21, 2021 in Miami Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Nike‘s post-earnings comments Monday could be a harbinger of how the retail indus...

White House to Meet With Exxon, Other Firms on Russia Sanctions

(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden’s administration will brief banks, energy companies and other firms Monday on the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ensuing sanctions. Most Read from B...

Market Gyrations Ease With Traders Recalibrating Russia Risk

(Bloomberg) — Traders are beginning to re-evaluate the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on their strategies as the conflict grinds into a fourth week. Most Read from Bloomberg The greenback edge...

FTX Founder Disagrees That The Crypto Industry Is Giving Russia A Safe Pass

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, says he is frustrated with the notion that the crypto industry is giving Russia a safe pass amidst the series of sanctions imposed on the...

Ukraine Says It Won’t Surrender Mariupol Following Russia’s Deadline Offer

Topline The Russian Defense Ministry demanded Ukraine surrender the besieged city of Mariupol on Sunday, stating Ukrainian forces have until 5 a.m. Moscow time (10 p.m. ET) Monday to lay down arms, bu...

Ukraine And Russia Nearing Agreement On ‘Critical Subjects’, Turkish Foreign Minister Says

Follow real-time updates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Pro-Russian separatists are seen as civilians trapped in Mariupol city under Russian attacks, are … [+] evacuated in groups under ...

Russia Gives Ukraine A Deadline To Surrender Mariupol

Topline The Russian Defense Ministry demanded Ukraine surrender the besieged city of Mariupol on Sunday, stating Ukrainian forces have until 5 a.m. Moscow time (11 p.m. ET) Monday to lay down arms, af...

FTX CEO Calls out crypto Industry  for being complied with  sanctions against Russia 

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has chastised the crypto sector for not communicating its policy around Russian sanctions. According to Sam Bankman-Fried, exchange policies toward Russia look to be anti-reg...

Zelensky Warns Israel Not To Mediate Between ‘Good And Evil’

Topline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Israel Sunday for not taking a stronger position against Russia during an address to Israel’s parliament Sunday—the final stop on a whirlwind ...

The Week Ahead – Russia, Central Banks, and Private Sector PMIs in Focus

On the Macro It’s a quieter week ahead on the economic calendar, with 43 stats due out through the week ending 25th March. In the week prior, 59 stats had been in focus. For the Dollar: On Thursday, c...

Oilfield Service Majors Aren’t Pulling Out Of Russia

The three biggest international oilfield services firms remain in Russia, not following nearly all Western oil majors that have said in recent weeks they would quit their Russian joint ventures and pr...

Senator Warren’s Bill Will Hurt Crypto, Not Russia (Opinion)

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is seldom reserved with her distaste for the crypto industry. Name any common criticism of Bitcoin, and she’s probably shared it already: volatility issues, environ...

Zelensky Again Warns Of World War If Talks With Russia Fail

Topline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again pleaded to negotiate directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Sunday interview with CNN, warning a “third World War” may come if peace i...

Paradigm Shift In Thinking Needed To Address New Immigration Challenges Worldwide

People who fled the war in Ukraine walk towards a humanitarian train to relocate refugees to Berlin. … [+] (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images) Getty Images For eight years now, Putin has pursue...

Governments Cause Inflation, Not Banks Making Loans

Christopher Wynne is a U.S.-born businessman based in Moscow. His company, PJ Western, owns and operates PapaJohn’s Pizza locations throughout Russia. His businesses employ over 9,000 people within th...

Rosy European Auto Sales Scenarios Ditched After Russia/Ukraine Shock

Illustration of the crisis concept with a businessman in panic getty Experts are ripping up their automotive sales forecasts as hopeful and improved scenarios helped by the fading coronavirus pandemic...

Americans Can Eat Caviar Guilt-Free — None Of It Comes From Russia

Punishments against Putin’s war are now clamping down on products like caviar and vodka that once were considered Russian delicacies in the U.S. but went dosvedanya — goodbye — a long time ago. In the...

Idea to Use Digital Ruble as Reserve Currency Circulated in Sanctioned Russia – Finance Bitcoin News

A call to make the digital ruble a reserve currency has been issued in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament. Meanwhile, concerns have been raised in the West that the new incarnation...

Russia is not circumventing sanctions with Bitcoin

There is a lot of talk these days about the possibility that Russia could use Bitcoin to circumvent international sanctions.  Why can’t Russia use Bitcoin to circumvent sanctions? The founder and CEO ...

BitMEX CEO predicts dire economic effects after Russia sanctions

The former CEO of BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, has predicted that the recent sanctions imposed against Russia could lead to dire economic effects. Hayes has predicted that there will be an influx of investme...

Ukraine Has Defeated Russia’s Initial Offensive, Analysts Say

Follow real-time updates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Residents look at a destroyed apartment building following a Russian air strike in the residential … [+] neighborhood of Podil in ...

FTX CEO criticizes crypto exchanges over their stand on Russia sanctions

Cryptocurrency exchange platforms have been under intense pressure from global regulators to ensure that Russia does not use crypto to avoid Western sanctions. The CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has e...

Why Is the Central Bank of Russia Urging Banks To Ban P2P Transactions Monitoring, Including Crypto Transactions? 

According to the reports on Thursday, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has asked the commercial banks to tighten their supervision of users’ transactions so that “special economic measures to co...

Baker Hughes Suspends New Investment In Russia As World’s Biggest Oilfield Services Companies Cut Ties

Topline U.S. oilfield services company Baker Hughes has paused new investments in Russia, it said in a statement Saturday, a day after its two biggest competitors said they were doing so in the wake o...

Central Bank Of Russia Steps Up Monitoring P2P Transactions Including Crypto

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has proposed that the nation’s commercial banks tighten monitoring on crypto and regulator operations. The objective is to stop transactions that attempt to evade its ...

McDonald’s, Starbucks, and others have no recourse for stolen trademarks in Russia

Russia’s recent decree essentially legalizing intellectual property theft leaves brands like McDonald’s (MCD) and Starbucks (SBUX) with no legal recourse if copycat businesses use the bran...

Russia says it avoided default on its $40 billion sovereign debt, but creditors say they haven’t been paid yet

Russia’s finance ministry said it deposited a $117 million interest payment on two dollar-denominated bonds due Wednesday, despite global ratings agencies predicting the country may be heading f...

Putin’s Gamble In Ukraine Is Xi’s Pot To Win

On October 6, 1973, a coalition of Arab states armed with Soviet weaponry launched a surprise invasion of Israel during Yom Kippur, a Jewish holy day. The U.S. and the Netherlands, among other countri...

Musicians And Artists Band Together For Ukraine

Ukraine’s flag is draped outside The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing … [+] Arts in New York before a benefit for Ukraine concert, Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP ...

Even If Russia Was To Take Ukraine, Its Ability As An Occupier Is Rated Poorly [Infographic]

Russia has been advancing more slowly than international observers expected after the country invaded Ukraine in late February. The campaign has drawn widespread international condemnation because of ...

Why It Seems Like The World Has Abandoned Brittney Griner

PHOENIX, ARIZONA – OCTOBER 06: Brittney Griner #42 of the Phoenix Mercury during the first half in … [+] Game Four of the 2021 WNBA semifinals at Footprint Center on October 06, 2021 in Ph...