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Yandex, Russia’s Internet Giant, Struggles to Dodge Geopolitics

If you thought Silicon Valley had a problem with politics, spare a thought for Russia’s top internet company. Nasdaq-listed Yandex, which runs the largest Russian search engine and ride-hailing service, is caught between its local customers and regulators on the one hand, and American technology and finance on the other. The latest flashpoint is the potential sale of its media interests, which consist of a news-aggregation service similar to Google News and a social… Source link

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Yandex, Russia’s Internet Giant, Struggles to Dodge Geopolitics

If you thought Silicon Valley had a problem with politics, spare a thought for Russia’s top internet company. Nasdaq-listed Yandex, which runs the largest Russian search engine and ride-hailing service, is caught between its local customers and regulators on the one hand, and American technology and finance on the other. The latest flashpoint is the potential sale of its media interests, which consist of a news-aggregation service similar to Google News and a social… Source link

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Why geopolitics is rocking the US stock market

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, there had been quite a bit of research circulating that concluded the impact of such an event to the U.S. stock market . LPL Financial’s Ryan Detrick looked back at . , the hit to the S&P 500 tends to be relatively light and the volatility tends to be relatively short-lived. “The combined revenue exposure of the S&P 500 to Russia and Ukraine is about 1%,” FactSet’s John Butters . With all of this information already out there, why have markets been selling… Source link

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