(Bloomberg) — European natural gas prices halted a record-breaking rally after Russia boosted flows to the continent and U.S. sanctions targeting Moscow excluded the energy sector. Most Read fro...
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U.S. And Allies To Remove Some Russian Banks From SWIFT, Sanction Central Bank
Topline The Biden administration and Western allies committed Saturday to a series of tough new sanctions on Russia to choke its financial system, including cutting off “selected” Russian banks from t...
Russia’s Access To Dollars In Jeopardy; Can Bitcoin Make A Difference?
Some swift action taken against Russia’s premier banks. After years of threats, Russia’s biggest … [+] banks will be banned from using the SWIFT banking communications system. ItR...
Russia Gets Cutoff From SWIFT And Ukraine Receives Outpouring Of Crypto Support
SOLEDAR, UKRAINE – FEBRUARY 27: Soldiers in the Ukrainian Army withdraw 15, 100 mm caliber artillery … [+] guns in Soledar, eastern Ukraine, on February 27, 2015. In accordance with a Febr...
Analysts Warn of Regulatory Risks if Russia Is Able to Use Crypto to Evade Sanctions – Regulation Bitcoin News
Russia could turn to cryptocurrency if it is banned from the SWIFT payments system. Analysts have warned that if Russia is able to use crypto to evade sanctions, “political support in the U.S. for cry...
BP’s Rosneft Alliance Tested by U.K. Tough Talk on Russia
(Bloomberg) — The U.K. government has argued for some of the toughest possible sanctions on Russia. At the same time, BP Plc holds one of the single biggest foreign investments in the country. M...
Economist Alex Kruger Warns Russia Using Crypto To Escape Sanctions Would Send Prices Crashing – Here’s Why
Economist Alex Kruger warns that if Russia turns to cryptocurrencies in order to evade sanctions, crypto assets would be negatively impacted. Kruger tells his 123,700 Twitter followers that the use of...
Why Investors Shouldn’t Worry (Much) About The Ukraine Invasion
Ukranian tanks. (Photo by Sergey BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images War, for those embroiled in one, is mankind at its worst. While the carnage of Russia’s ...
U.S. and Allies Are Close to Putting Financial Choke on Russia
(Bloomberg) — Western nations are set to enact drastic new sanctions that would cripple Russia’s economy and financial system after initial penalties failed to convince President Vladimir Putin ...
With Ukraine Under Attack, The Sports World Cuts Ties With Russian Sponsors
Darko Churlinov of FC Schalke 04 gestures during a match on February 18, 2022. After Russia invaded … [+] Ukraine this week, German soccer team announced that Gazprom, the Russian oil giant, wil...
World’s biggest Hacker group “anonymous” Have launched a cyberwar against Russia
Anonymous claims to have knocked down the website of Russian propaganda outlet RT News. Anonymous, a hacker organization, has taken down multiple Russian government websites, including the state-contr...
Biden Said To Eye Cutting Moscow Off From SWIFT After Support Grows In Europe
Topline President Joe Biden is seriously considering kicking Russia out of the international financial-messaging system SWIFT, CNN reported Saturday, as more European countries said they backed the mo...
Bitcoin donations Are Flooding In To Support Ukraine’s Army In Its Battle Against Russia. BTC Has Raised More Than $5 Million
Donations to the BTC address listed on the organization’s website soared after Russia launched a full-scale military strike on Ukraine on Thursday. At the time of writing, the wallet address had recei...
Pozsar Says $300 Billion Russia Cash Pile Can Roil Money Markets
(Bloomberg) — Russia still has about $300 billion of foreign currency held offshore — enough to disrupt money markets if it’s frozen by sanctions or moved suddenly to avoid them. Most Read...
Russia on the Brink of Being Kicked From SWIFT as Kyiv Heroically Holds – Trustnodes
Germany, Italy, Cyprus and Hungary are all thought to no longer object to Russia being kicked out from SWIFT, the international payments system. The move would be the biggest sanction yet imposed on R...
Why Ukraine wants to sanction Russia by banning it from SWIFT — Quartz
The US and Europe are turning to economic sanctions in an effort to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine without tempting nuclear war. What is SWIFT? One sticking point has been SWIFT, the 48-yea...
Russia Has Sent Over 50% Of Invasion Force Into Ukraine—But Frustrated By Stiff Resistance, U.S. Says
Follow real-time updates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian soldiers take positions outside a military facility as two cars burn, in a street in Kyiv … [+] on Saturday. Russian tro...
Invasion Of Ukraine Will Forces Countries And Companies To Take Sides
TOPSHOT – A wounded woman stands outside a hospital after the bombing of the eastern Ukraine town of … [+] Chuguiv on February 24, 2022, as Russian armed forces attempt to invade Ukraine f...
How Ukraine Can Win The Information War Against Russia
MOSCOW, RUSSIA A man holding a placard reading “No occupation of Ukraine” and depicting an image of … [+] Hitler stroking Putin’s face during a protest at Pushkinskaya Square o...
Russia: ECB President Calls for Crypto Regulation to Prevent Sanction Evasion
As crypto adoption continues to rise globally, the implication of this is that its use gets to shape global affairs in the comity of states. In the latest of such scenarios, the ongoing global crisis...
Besieged Ukrainian President Shows Russia An Alternative To A Hiding Vladimir Putin
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Anadolu Agency via Getty Images While Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, stays in his besieged capital, calmly addressing the nation, meeting troops...
Bitcoin Donations Pour in to Help Ukrainian Military Fight Russia — Over $5 Million in BTC Raised – Featured Bitcoin News
Cryptocurrency donations have poured into a nonprofit organization that provides support to Ukrainian soldiers after Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine. More than $5 million in bitcoin ha...
Russia Invades Ukraine and the Massive Bitcoin Volatility: The Week’s Crypto Recap
The past week was riddled with volatility, largely induced by the geopolitical turmoil. Russia declared a military operation against Ukraine and invaded the country’s borders on Thursday – February 24...
Tesla stock extends $100+ bounce after Daiwa analyst says buy, for these reasons
Shares of Tesla Inc. gained Friday, to extend the previous session’s more-than $100 bounce, after Daiwa Capital analyst Jairam Nathan said it’s finally time to start buying again, as supply chain conc...
As Russia invades Ukraine, will Bitcoin play a larger role amid U.S. sanctions
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is being watched by millions, if not billions of people. Naturally, FUD rose by another notch as Ukrainian reports claimed that the Russian army had seized control of the ...
Will Russia Switch To Crypto If Cut Off From SWIFT?
As part of the sanctions against Russia for invading Ukraine, the United States and the European Union chose not to cut Russia off from the SWIFT global interbank payments system. Still, President Joe...
ECB president calls for crypto regulation in response to Russia potentially evading sanctions
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), has called on lawmakers to approve a regulatory framework on crypto, hinting at potentially preventing Russia from getting around econo...
Russia-Ukraine Conflict Stock Market Volatility Increases
AFP via Getty Images TL;DR: On Thursday, February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine OPEC+ will hold the next meeting on March 2, as the Russia-Ukraine conflict and possible sanctions continue to disrupt supp...
Opinion: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could keep stocks sliding for weeks before the market finally hits bottom
U.S. stocks staged an impressive reversal on Feb. 24 — including a 950-point intraday move to the upside for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +2.51% — but there’s too much eagerness to declare t...