Western sanctions have disrupted nearly every part of Russia’s financial system, but there is one big exception. The domestic-payments system continued to work smoothly after Visa Inc. and Mastercard ...
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For First Time, India Is Top Buyer Of U.S. Oil, Plus $100 Billion Trade Partner
For just the first time, India became the No. 1 purchaser of U.S. oil in 2021, also have one export … [+] or import top $10 billion for the first time. ustradenumbers.com For the first time, Ind...
After 20 Years Of Putin, An Irked Biden Anticipates A New Russian Leader
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. ASSOCIATED PRESS Western security is entwined with the fate of one man, Vladimir Putin. Over his twenty y...
Ukraine And U.S. Doubt Russia’s Promise To Withdraw From Kyiv
Topline Russia’s claim that it will “fundamentally cut back military activity” near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in pursuit of peace is probably a tactic to “mislead the military leadership of Ukrain...
U.S. Business Enthusiasm About China Market Undimmed By Ukraine War – At Least So Far
Pedestrians and shoppers walk past a McDonald’s Corp. restaurant in Shanghai in 2018. Photographer: … [+] Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has ...
Biden Casts Doubt On Russia-Ukraine Optimism
Topline President Joe Biden and several U.S. officials threw cold water Tuesday on hopes that Russia and Ukraine made significant progress towards a peace agreement during Tuesday negotiations in Ista...
Ukraine Hints At Progress On Crimea, While Both Sides Optimistic On Putin-Zelensky Meeting
Topline Negotiations in Istanbul Tuesday between Russian and Ukrainian delegations sparked optimism, as Ukraine shared proposals for non-military negotiations regarding Crimea and both sides said ther...
When The Ukraine Crisis Hits Home For Wine Lovers: The Case Of Vinitaly
In just a few weeks, the Vinitaly wine trade fair will reconvene in Verona, Italy for the first time in person since the COVID pandemic derailed the annual gathering. Similar to its counterparts in Lo...
Cargill Dodges Russian Missiles But Vows To Keep Feeding Both Sides Of The Ukraine War
The biggest privately held company in the U.S. has been operating in the area for decades and says food should never be used as a weapon. On Feb. 24, in the first hours of Russia’s unprovoked attacks ...
Bitcoin Whale Addresses Hit Record High Since Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
Advertisement     Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency initiated back in 2009. Since then, thousands of other coins have been launched, some more successful than other...
Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich Pictured At Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks After Reports Of Suspected Poisoning
Topline Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich was pictured at peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul on Tuesday, just weeks after he and two Ukrainian negotiators were reportedly victims of...
Ukraine-U.S. Trade Off To Record Start In 2022— Before Russian Invasion
In the first month of 2022, before Russian troops invaded Ukraine, U.S. trade with Ukraine was the … [+] highest ever for the month of January. The January data is the most recent available from...
Russia Sends More Mercenaries To Fight In Ukraine’s East, Per U.S. And U.K. Officials
Topline Russia has sent more than 1,000 mercenaries from the private military company known as the Wagner Group to fight in eastern Ukraine, according to British and U.S. officials—the latest maneuver...
Russia Willing To Let Ukraine Join EU If It Stays Out Of NATO, Report Says
Topline Russia may allow Ukraine to join the European Union if it pledges to stay out of NATO, the Financial Times reported Monday, as Ukrainian officials express openness to a neutrality pledge as pa...
Nongfu Spring, Flagship Of China’s Richest Man, Posts ’21 Profit Gain, Sees Rising Costs From Ukraine War
Bottles of Nongfu Spring Co. water at a vending machine in Shanghai. Photographer: Qilai … [+] Shen/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Nongfu Spring, the flagship beverage business of China’s...
Russian Soldiers Went Unprotected From Radiation At Chernobyl, Report Alleges
Topline The Russian convoy that took Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant the day Russia invaded the country drove through a highly toxic zone near the plant without anti-radiation gear, stirring u...
Game-changing hydrogen could play a big role in the energy transition
Ships sailing into the port of Rotterdam in February 2022. Federico Gambarini | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Concerns related to both the energy transition and energy security have been thrown into...
Bitcoin Has Risen 35% Since Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
After Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, a rapid sell-off occurred in the crypto market, resulting in over $500M in losses, followed by an uptrend in price. Geo...
Middle East Investors Step Back From Russia Amid Ukraine Conflict
Qatar’s foreign affairs minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani speaking at the … [+] Doha Forum in Qatar on March 26, 2022. (Photo: KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)...
3 Reasons Investors Should Worry That The Ukraine War Is Far From Over
TOPSHOT – Ukrainian servicemen get ready to repel an attack in Ukraine’s Lugansk region on February … [+] 24, 2022. – Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale inv...
Ukraine and NFT to preserve war memory
Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, has confirmed the launch of the NFT Museum, called the Meta History Museum of War: a timeline of war in which events are represented by ...
Putin’s War in Ukraine Forces New Energy Reality on Europe
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden (not seen) hold a … [+] joint press conference in Brussels, Belgium on March 25, 2022. (Photo by EU Commission/Pool/...
Crypto.com at the Oscars with a spot for Ukraine
Crypto.com made an appearance at the Oscars last night at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Crypto.com at the Oscars with a spot for Ukraine The spot aired last night was announced by the popular exch...
Ukraine Launches ‘NFT Museum’ to Remember the War and Raise Funds
Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation announced last Friday that it has launched a MetaHistory NFT Museum, a blockchain-based collection of digital images of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Th...
Biden Says He Isn’t Pushing For Regime Change In Russia
Topline President Joe Biden told reporters on Sunday he was not calling for a regime change in Russia when he said a day earlier that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” a surpr...
The Ukrainians Are Killing A Lot Of Russian Generals. It Won’t Help To End The War.
Lt. Gen. Andriy Mordvichev. Russian defense ministry photo The Russian force in Ukraine probably includes two dozen generals who act as commanders and deputy commanders for the dozen or so combined-ar...
Zelensky Tells Russian Media He’s Open To Neutrality—But Ukrainians Need To Vote First
Topline As Ukraine negotiates to end Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday he’s willing to discuss remaining a neutral country if Ukraine is given security guarantees f...
Why The Ukraine War Won’t Crimp Green Investing
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink (Photo by Mat Szwajkos/Getty Images) Getty Images BlackRock leader Larry Fink has sounded a call to corporate America to commit itself to net zero—that is, eradicating its car...
Opinion: Russia just made a case for owning gold—and nobody noticed
Here’s a strong argument for adding some gold bullion to your retirement portfolio right now, alongside those stocks and bonds. And it comes courtesy of Pavel Zavalny, the head of the Russian parliame...