A decision by Western allies on Saturday (Feb 26) to block "selected" Russian banks from the SWIFT payments system will inflict a crippling economic blow, but also cause much pain to their own companies and banks. And the allies still have room to do more. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is a secure messaging system to ensure rapid cross-border payments which has become the principal mechanism to finance international trade. Russian banks ...
Geopolitical worries have added another layer of volatility to an already-jumpy market as investors priced in the possibility of escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine, though some doubted the issue would weigh on U.S. asset prices over the longer term. Reports of rising tensions between the two countries slammed stocks on Friday and lifted prices for Treasuries, the dollar and other safe-haven assets. Investors were already rattled by a hawkish turn from the Federa...
The consumer price index came in hotter than expected in January, as both the CPI inflation rate and the core rate, excluding food and energy, hit new 39-year highs. Dow Jones industrial average and Nasdaq losses deepened in Thursday afternoon stock market action as Wall Street priced in additional Fed rate hikes. Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury yield crested 2% for the first time since August 2019 and kept on rising. The CPI rose 0.6% from the prior month and 7.5% ...
The U.S. economy created far more jobs than expected in January but despite the disruption to consumer-facing businesses from a surge in COVID-19 cases, pointing to underlying strength that should sustain the expansion as the Federal Reserve starts to raise interest rates. The Labor Department's closely watched employment report on Friday also showed a whopping 709,000 more jobs were added in November and December than...
Stock markets were deep in the red and some key government bond yields climbed to their highest in years on Thursday after the Federal Reserve signalled the possibility of faster-than-expected U.S. rate hikes and stimulus withdrawal. Both Asia and Europe's bourses fell heavily after Wall Street's tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged more than 3% on Wednesday and 2- and 5-year Treasury yields, important drivers of global borrowing costs, surged to post-COVID pa...
周末情况似乎发生了变化,当时布林肯在美国有线电视新闻网说...
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The CPI rose 0.6% from the prior month and 7.5% ...
新西兰Covid-19应对部长克里斯·希普金斯表示,新西兰实施了一些世界上最严厉的 COVID-19 措施,将计划分期重新开放边境的开始推迟到2月底。
在印度,新德里首席部长阿文德·凯里瓦尔敦促公民佩戴口罩,并呼吁联邦政府允许接种加强疫苗,因为该国在12个州报告了200例该变种病例。
在新加坡,卫生部正在进行测试,以确定Omicron是否是健身房疑似集群病例的幕后黑手,并警告说可能会有更多病例。
在美国,官员说,该变体在成为该国的主要菌株后,于周一在德克萨斯州夺走了一名未接种疫苗的男子的生命。纽约、华盛顿和其他美国城市的Covid-19检测队伍四处排开,人们在与家人一起庆祝节日之前大声疾呼要知道自己是否被感染。
最近几天,韩国、荷兰、德国和爱尔兰是重新实施部分或全部封锁或其他社交距离措施的国家之一
英国首相鲍里斯·约翰逊周一表示,由于伦敦的住院人数急剧上升,局势 “极其困难”。他的政府不排除采取任何措施,包括可能限制旅游业。
Omicron变种于上个月在南部非洲和香港首次被发现,到目前为止,至少有89个国家报告了该变体。它引起的疾病的严重程度尚不清楚,但世界卫生组织(WHO)警告说,它的传播速度比德尔塔变种快,并且正在导致已经接种疫苗或已从Covid-19疾病中康复的人群感染。该变体的迅速传播引发了人们的担忧,即更多的国家可能会实施破坏经济的限制,从而影响市场。
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