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Volatility and inflation have been among the most significant key drivers throughout the trading week amid trepulent geopolitical developments with undeniable economic impact across financial market.Inflation Still Biggest RiskData released on Thursday showed that the US consumer price index (CPI) grew 7.9% year-on-year and 0.8% month-on-month in February. The core …

Russia ranks number one, two and three, among the world’s exporters of natural gas, oil and coal, respectively. Europe gets most of its energy needs from Russia. Russia also accounts for half of US uranium imports. It supplies a tenth of the world’s aluminium and copper, and a fifth of …

President Biden ordered federal agencies to study implications of government-backed digital currency The Federal Reserve is trying to figure out how to keep cash relevant in a cashless world. It is considering digitizing the US dollar, giving people money they can access on their phone and bypassing electronic payments that …

Civil aviation experts of Aerodynamic highlighted the intriguing story of Aeroflot 401 as an important example of an in-depth discussion on Russia, Ukraine and the impact of the ongoing war on global air transport.Aeroflot Flight 401 had taken off at night, in the pre-dawn hours of March 3, and quickly …

Economies of the the United States and other Western nations have deployed a set of potent financial weapons against Russia with remarkable speed aiming at crippling the Russian economy. Cutting off access to global financial markets and to Russia’s war chest of foreign-exchange reserves has dealt Russia’s economy a crippling …

Asian markets closed today’s trading up across the board, with the exception of Hong Kong’s Hang Seng, which edged down 0.24% while Japan’s Nikkei rose 0.19%, China’s Shanghai Composite gained 0.32%, India’s Sensex advanced 0.70%, and South Korea’s KOSPI finished trading up 0.84%. Taiwan’s equity markets are closed today to …

Russia vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution on Friday that would have deplored Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, while China abstained from the vote; a move western countries view as a win for showing Russia’s international isolation.The United Arab Emirates and India also abstained from the vote on the US …

In a statement on the Russo-Ukraine was released on Friday, China said that Ukraine’s territory and sovereignty should be respected and urged talks between Ukraine and Russia as soon as possible. China also called for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis as soon as possible. Shortly after, senior Chinese diplomat …

Any Russian incursion into Ukraine would have far-reaching economic repercussions for global economies. There will be surely winners and losers. In this particular crisis, China will likely benefit from diversion of Russian exports. Energy Sanctions on Russian gas by the United States and its allies could pay dividends for China, …

Continued strong consumer appetite for overseas goods pushed up the US trade deficit in December, sending the full-year import-export gap to a record level in 2021.The December deficit in trade of goods and services grew by 1.8% to a seasonally adjusted $80.7 billion, the Commerce Department said Tuesday, just less …