Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Evening
- Mariupol’s dead put at 5,000 as Ukraine braces in the east
- Russia hit with new round of U.S. sanctions as Biden decries 'major war crimes'
- Russia edges close to default on debt, puts roubles aside for bondholders
- Ukraine Update: Italy Ready to Back Russia Gas Ban If EU United
- Yellen Faces Bipartisan Pressure to Toughen Russia Sanctions
- Yellen says Russia should be expelled from G20, U.S. may boycott some meetings
- Stocks fall, dollar strengthens after Fed minutes
- Hawkish Fed Sinks Tech Shares; Bonds Fall: Markets Wrap
- Oil Selloff Accelerates as IEA Sets Coordinated Global Release
- Fed officials to take cleaver to balance sheet; 'many' back big rate hikes
- Fed Lays Out Plan to Prune Balance Sheet by $1.1 Trillion a Year
- The Yield Curve Will Fully Invert When China's Covid Lockdowns Pressure Supply Chains
- Perma-sanctions: Biden under pressure to punish Russia until Putin's gone
- Analysis: Easy Russia sanctions exhausted, U.S. and allies face economic bite
- Pentagon says Ukraine can 'absolutely' win the war
- U.S. FBI says it disrupted Russian hackers
- Sanctioned Oil Piling Up Off China as Virus Outbreak Worsens
- Energy Crisis Threatens to Eclipse 1970s Shocks, Yergin Says
- Fed Signals Half-Percentage-Point Rate Increases Could Be Warranted at Coming Meetings
- Ukraine Urges Civilians to Flee Looming Russian Offensive in Eastern Regions
- Fed prepares to slash size of swollen balance sheet by $95bn a month
Afternoon
- Fed officials plan to shrink the balance sheet by $95 billion a month, meeting minutes indicate
- Russia edges close to default on debt, pays bondholders in roubles
- Russia Credit Insurance Shows 99% Chance of Default Within Year
- Treasury cracks down on Russia's largest bank, moves to end U.S. investment
- U.S. to Skip G-20 Finance Chiefs’ Meeting If Russia Takes Part
- U.S. Stocks, Bonds Sink as Rate-Hike Bets Ramp Up: Markets Wrap
- Oil Slides With IEA to Release More Barrels From Stockpiles
- Fed Officials Reinforce Message That Rates Are Heading Higher
- White House warns of 'escalating vulnerabilities' to U.S. from semiconductor issue
- China's widening COVID curbs exact mounting economic toll
- Current COVID vaccines not 'well-matched' against BA.2 -FDA
- Russian Inflation Heating Up as Prices Jump 10% in 3 Months
- US imposes ‘most severe’ sanctions against Sberbank and Alfa-Bank
General
- Russian forces pound key cities as Ukraine demands tougher sanctions
- Russia Skirts Nearer Default After Dollar Bond Payment Blocked
- Russia to pay Eurobonds in roubles as long as reserves remain blocked
- Ukraine Update: U.S. to Send More Javelins; Zelenskiy Rebukes UN
- U.S, EU to Hit Russian Investments With New Round of Sanctions
- Global Bond Selloff Deepens as Fed Steps Up Tightening Rhetoric
- Bonds, Stocks Sink as Rate-Hike Bets Ramp Up: Markets Wrap
- European Stocks Fall as Tech Shares Hit by Surge in Bond Yields
- Oil rises as new Russia sanctions outweigh demand worries
- Markets Bet on Sharpest Pace of Fed Tightening Since 1994
- Surging interest rates push mortgage demand down more than 40% from a year ago
- No poop for you: Manure supplies run short as fertilizer prices soar
- China Vows to Use Monetary Policy Tools at Appropriate Time
- China's services sector activity hit hard by Omicron surge - Caixin PMI
- China holiday travel slumps after COVID outbreaks - state media
- Kaisa’s Dollar Bonds Rise on State Tie-Up: Evergrande Update
- UK has detected a new Covid variant. Here’s what we know so far about omicron XE
- Sri Lanka’s crisis follows similar pattern as Arab Spring, say analysts
- Dudley: If Stocks Don’t Fall, the Fed Needs to Force Them
- China’s Daily Covid Cases Top 20,000 as Isolation Efforts Expand
- EU’s Top Diplomat Calls Summit With China’s Xi a ‘Deaf Dialog’
- Ex-Oligarch Says Putin Sees War With the West Already Underway
- China’s Services Sector Posts Steepest Decline Since Pandemic’s Start
- US government debt under pressure as traders await Fed minutes
- Weaponisation of finance: how the west unleashed ‘shock and awe’ on Russia
- Russia to make dollar bond payments in roubles after US blockade
- China’s zero-Covid policy risks causing agricultural crisis and food shortages
- Global trade falls 2.8% as Russia’s war in Ukraine hits container traffic