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Russian central bank increases daily limit on euro-rouble forex swaps to 3.5 billion euros
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian central bank increased the daily limit for its foreign exchange swap operations in euros to 3.5 billion euros from 2 billion euros, it said on Friday, further increasing...
Feb 25, 2022
Russia says sanctions will make borrowing more expensive -economy minister
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov on Friday said Russia was studying the long-term implications of new sanctions and admitted that the measures imposed would make borrowing more ex...
Feb 25, 2022
Russian cenbank says client funds in sanctioned banks are secure
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Clients' funds held by Russian banks that were hit with new Western sanctions are secure and are not affected by the sanctions, Deputy Central Bank Governor Vladimir Chistyukhin sai...
Feb 25, 2022
Appeal court acquits former BT Italy exec on false accounting charge
MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan appeals court has acquitted Stefania Truzzoli, former chief operating officer at BT Italy, of alleged false accounting at the Italian unit of British Telecom in 2015 and 2016...
Feb 25, 2022
Analysis-Russian risks stoke fears for European winter gas supplies
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Europe will need to secure large quantities of gas if it wants to avoid soaring prices and crippling energy bills next winter in the event of disruption to flows fr...
Feb 25, 2022
Some EU countries have reservations about cutting Russia from SWIFT – France
PARIS (Reuters) - Some EU countries have reservations about cutting Russia off from the SWIFT payments system, but France is not one of them, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday. Spe...
Feb 25, 2022
Ukraine’s Kuleba discusses with Blinken need to use U.S. reach to ban Russia from SWIFT
(Reuters) - Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken via telephone about the need to use all U.S. influence on some hesitant European countries in ...
Feb 25, 2022
Excluding Russia from SWIFT must be on the table – Netherlands
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Excluding Russia from the global SWIFT system of interbank payments should be an option given the scale of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Wopke Hoeks...
Feb 25, 2022
Winter storm grips U.S. Northeast with mix of heavy snow, freezing rain
(Reuters) - An intense winter storm will dump a mix of heavy snow and freezing rain on the U.S. Northeast on Friday, creating dangerous travel conditions while knocking out power to homes and business...
Feb 25, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination follows varied legal career
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ketanji Brown Jackson, the federal appeals court judge who President Joe Biden is poised to nominate to become the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court...
Feb 25, 2022
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