Boston Celtics players delivered a message to the White House on Saturday during their NBA Finals practice. Bring Brittney Griner home. Marcus Smart, Jaylen Brown, Grant Williams and other Celtics players wore T-shirts at practice reading “We are BG” and imprinted with a QR code on the back linking to a petition calling for Griner’s safe return. Griner — a seven-time All-Star for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury — has been detained in Russia on drug charges since Feb. 17 after she allegedly… Source link
Read More »Spanish Inflation Unexpectedly Quickens, Raising Pressure on ECB
(Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast Most Read from Bloomberg Spanish inflation unexpectedly quickened, denting hopes that the euro zone’s record price surge is peaking and piling more pressure on the European Central Bank to act. The acceleration — to 8.5% in May from 8.3% the previous month under European Union harmonized standards — came as increases in fuel costs offset an easing in electricity prices that have… Source link
Read More »Pressure Under Sanctions and Semiconductor Shortages
Yandex’s Uncertain Q1 FY 2022 Outlook Yandex N.V (NASDAQ: YNDX) has caught the ire of the West in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. After being accused of suppressing free speech and spreading misinformation about conflict,… Source link
Read More »Yandex N.V: Pressure Under Sanctions and Semiconductor Shortages
Yandex N.V (NASDAQ: YNDX) has caught the ire of the West in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. After being accused of suppressing free speech and spreading misinformation about conflict, Yandex’s second in command, Tigran Khudaverdyan was sanctioned and has since stepped down from his position. The company now is attempting to reduce exposure from potential sanctions placed upon it and that of its employees, which includes selling off divisions of its businesses to state-controlled… Source link
Read More »Pressure Under Sanctions and Semiconductor Shortages
Yandex N.V (NASDAQ: YNDX) has caught the ire of the West in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. After being accused of suppressing free speech and spreading misinformation about conflict, Yandex’s second in command, Tigran Khudaverdyan was sanctioned and has since stepped down from his position. The company now is attempting to reduce exposure from potential sanctions placed upon it and that of its employees, which includes selling off divisions of its businesses to… Source link
Read More »Stock market news live updates: Stocks end mixed as tech shares come under renewed pressure: Nasdaq drops 1.2%
U.S. stocks ended mixed on Monday, with equities struggling for direction as concerns over the growth outlook persisted amid elevated inflation. The S&P 500 ended a choppy session lower, dropping 0.4% to close at 4,008.01.The Nasdaq dropped by 1.2% to end at 11,662.79, as mega-cap technology companies including Apple (AAPL) fell and dragged the index lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed slightly higher to reach 32,223.42. U.S. crude oil prices (CL=F) erased earlier losses and rose… Source link
Read More »U.S. stops Russian bond payments in bid to raise pressure on Moscow
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States stopped the Russian government on Monday from paying holders of its sovereign debt more than $600 million from reserves held at U.S. banks, in a move meant to ratchet up pressure on Moscow and eat into its holdings of dollars. Under sanctions put in place after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, foreign currency reserves held by the Russian central bank at U.S. financial institutions were frozen. But the Treasury Department had been allowing the… Source link
Read More »Pressure mounts to include Russia’s tech giant Yandex in the EU sanction list – EURACTIV.com
A group of progressive MEPs are preparing to question the European Commission on why Russia’s largest technology company has been excluded from the sanctions list so far, while Baltic states are planning to raise the point in the Council discussions. Yandex is the second largest search engine in Russia regarding market share and provides several online services, including advertising, mobility apps and navigation. The company also offers ride-hailing services in several EU… Source link
Read More »Guillermo Rigondeaux burns eyes in pressure cooker explosion
Guillermo Rigondeaux was discharged from the hospital on Friday. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) The career of a former champion and amateur boxing legend is in limbo after a horrific cooking accident, according to ESPN’s Mike Coppinger. Guillermo Rigondeaux reportedly lost approximately 80 percent of his vision when his pressure cooker exploded while he was cooking Cuban black beans at his home in Miami on Thursday. Rigondeaux’s manager, Alex Boronte, told ESPN that boiling water… Source link
Read More »Crypto eyed as sanctions pressure mounts on Putin
As the U.S. and other Western powers line up to impose sanctions on Russia for its armed incursion into Ukraine, the looming economic penalties are likely to squeeze the energy giant’s economy. However, there are questions about whether the booming cryptocurrency sector could allow oligarchs close to Russian President Vladimir Putin to skirt the effort to put the financial squeeze on Moscow, thanks to the anonymity and decentralization of digital tokens. According to Capital Economics,… Source link
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