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Oil prices jump 2% after US launches missile strike in Syria
April 7th, 2017
Oil prices surged more than 2 percent on Friday after the United States launched dozens of cruise missiles at an airbase in Syria. U.S President Donald Trump said he had ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airfield from which ...
Dollar slips vs yen after U.S. launches missile strikes on Syria
April 7th, 2017
The dollar skidded against the safe-haven Japanese yen on Friday after the United States launched cruise missiles at an airbase in Syria, raising concerns of a sharp escalation in the Syrian civil war. U.S President Donald Trump said on ...
Bank of Russia revoked the banking licence from a credit institution
April 6th, 2017
By its Order No. OD-872, dated 5 April 2017, the Bank of Russia revoked the banking licence from the Kazan-based credit institution LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY TATARSTAN AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL BANK or LLC TATAGROPROMBANK (Registration No.728) from 5 April 2017. The decision was made following the complete loss of capital by LLC TATAGROPROMBANK, ...
Russia’s Gazprom May Move Operations From London Over Post-Brexit Trade Concerns
April 5th, 2017
According to media reports, Russia’s energy giant Gazprom may leave the United Kingdom in light of potential trading difficulties associated with the country’s departure from the European Union. Russia’s energy giant Gazprom may leave the United Kingdom in light of potential ...
Asia Stocks Drop as Yen Gains; Aussie Dollar Slips: Markets Wrap
April 4th, 2017
Tokyo, Sydney stocks lower; China, India shut for holidays Australia’s central bank leaves interest rates unchanged Asian stocks slipped, taking their cue from a weaker U.S. equities session, as a rising yen weighed on shares in Tokyo. The Australian ...
What’s next for Europe and Natural Gas
March 30th, 2017
In recent years we have seen countless proposals for projects to deliver natural gas to Europe and ease the European Union’s dependence on Russian gas. Attempts to diversify the EU’s energy supplies have produced various plans for pipelines. But amid ...
How powerful is your passport?
March 23rd, 2017
The Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index is a global ranking of countries according to the travel freedom that their citizens enjoy. For more than a decade, Henley & Partners has analyzed global visa regulations to present an index ...
The Netherlands and some Nordic countries jail less in Europe
March 21st, 2017
Europe’s prison population falls, but there is no progress in tackling overcrowding, says annual Council of Europe survey The number of people held in European prisons decreased by 6.8% from 2014 to 2015, although prison overcrowding remained a problem ...
Japan offers Russia common digital currency on Kuril Islands
March 21st, 2017
Tokyo has prepared a range of offers to Moscow for joint economic projects on Russia’s Kuril Islands, according to Japan’s national broadcaster NHK. The package of proposals, including tourism and fisheries, as well as a common electronic currency, will ...
The fateful date
March 12th, 2017
Caesar: What sayest thou to me now? Speak once again. Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass. This famous advice, according to Shakespeare, was ignored with fatal consequences for Julius ...
