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🇹🇷 Turkey hosts Swedish and Finnish officials for talks on their applications to join NATO, an expansion Russia has warned it would consider a direct threat. Ankara has so far objected to the expansion of the defense alliance, accusing the two applicants of being too soft on Kurdish activists it considers terrorists.
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🍞 Russia’s war against Ukraine deepens a global food crisis, threatening some countries with hunger and making the invader among the biggest winners of grain trade as prices soar.
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⛽️ Russia's state-run oil champion Rosneft has seen the largest drop in production since the invasion of Ukraine. The company and its subsidiaries account for about two-thirds of Russia’s production cuts since the invasion of Ukraine.
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🇺🇸 US President Joe Biden demanded the country "stand up" to gun makers after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school left at least 19 children and two teachers dead. https://bloom.bg/3MQPIOX

🇦🇺 Australia's next parliament will be the country's most diverse, with a record number of women, Asian and Indigenous lawmakers to hold office. https://bloom.bg/3MPSHay

🛍 China’s Generation Z is shaking up shopping, derailing big bets by Western companies with a growing nationalism that's dethroned the likes of Nike and Adidas. https://bloom.bg/3yYgtNf

🇺🇸 The 18-year-old gunman, who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school, warned about his plans on social media minutes before the attack, the state’s governor Greg Abbott says. https://bloom.bg/38RyBxB

🪧Hundreds of people took to the streets in China’s Zhengzhou city, demanding that the billions of yuan they’ve invested be returned in what could be one of the country’s largest financial scams. https://bloom.bg/3PVyCBF

🚢 Willing buyers of Russian crude are ready to go to any extent, with rare ship-to-ship transfers taking place off South Korea’s waters to ensure the steeply discounted fuel reaches China. https://bloom.bg/38JSozf

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🗣 The US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe warns that Russia could use any Ukraine territory it holds onto as a “springboard” to capture more terrain.
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💬 Germany’s chancellor says Russia wants to “bomb us back to a time when war was a common political tool.” Olaf Scholz calls for more countries to join international efforts to isolate Russia, saying President Vladimir Putin must not be allowed a victory in Ukraine that could embolden other warmongers.
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🇷🇺 The Bank of Russia delivers its third interest-rate reduction in just over a month, and a bigger one than expected. Russian monetary authority lowered its benchmark to 11% from 14% on Thursday at an extraordinary meeting it announced only a day earlier.
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🇺🇸🇹🇼 The US and Taiwan are planning to announce negotiations to deepen economic ties, sources say, in a fresh challenge to Beijing. https://bloom.bg/39Z8EN5

💭 Will Kanye's new album come out next week? Are mortgage rates going up? A new stock market lets investors bet big on anything. https://bloom.bg/3z1JlEh

💡 And S&P 500 believers see light forming in the market. But that view comes with many caveats. https://bloom.bg/3PON7XB

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🗣 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urges additional military support for Ukraine as the war approaches its 100th day with Russian forces stepping up their offensive in Donbas region.
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⛽️ A record volume of Russian oil is on board tankers, with most of that heading to India or China as other nations restrict imports. China’s Unipec has stepped up hiring of tankers this month to transport crude from Russia’s east. Sri Lanka is also buying.
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💵 Russia’s efforts to avoid its first foreign default in a century are back in focus on Friday, when investors are supposed to receive about $100 million in interest on Russian debt.
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✈️ The wreckage of a plane carrying 22 people that disappeared in Nepal's mountains was found Monday scattered on a mountainside, the army said. There was no word on survivors. https://bloom.bg/3trDDZ5

📣🇰🇷 A 26-year-old activist who busted an online sex crime ring in South Korea is now taking on the nation’s president — and its gender divide. https://bloom.bg/3NEDWao

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US will give Ukraine more precise rocket systems, including ones that can strike locations up to 80 kilometers away, the Biden administration said, as the conflict shifts to a town-by-town grind. https://bloom.bg/3LZGoXS

🧪 Even as places like Shanghai cautiously reopen, China is doubling down on mass-testing — dashing hopes for a shift away from its costly Covid Zero strategy. https://bloom.bg/3m8dQAJ

⏰ George Soros’s money manager, who oversees about $28 billion, warns that a recession is inevitable. But she says markets “might be wrong” on the timing. https://bloom.bg/3x5H9dNal

🌀 JPMorgan is bracing itself for an economic "hurricane," said CEO Jamie Dimon, adding that Fed actions and the war in Europe created an unprecedented challenge. https://bloom.bg/38EYLnc

😷 Hong Kong is reviving one of its toughest Covid Zero measures, forcing patients with even mild infections of the new omicron subvariants and their close contacts into centralized quarantine as it races to tame a spread. https://bloom.bg/3PWhqvB

💰🇮🇳 Trillions are at stake in India as women disappear from the workforce. Estimates peg female employment figures in the second-most populous country at 9% in 2022, down from 19% in 2020. https://bloom.bg/390Zyis

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🌡 The U.S. housing market is so stressful that it’s leaving buyers in tears. With prices high and inventory tight, Americans say the process of purchasing a home is just as bad as getting fired. https://bloom.bg/3td0gQR

🍎💬 Apple plans to announce significant changes to the iPad that would make it more like a laptop and less like a phone. Here’s what else to expect from the annual Worldwide Developers Conference next week: https://bloom.bg/3aozCxO

💸 A Citigroup staffer’s fat-finger trade in European stocks last month could cost the bank more than $50 million, according to people familiar with the matter. https://bloom.bg/3afFHMR

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📈 Here's why peak inflation is near, according to experts who bet on short-lived price rises: https://bloom.bg/38QvPc0

💸 Terra investors recovered part of their losses when the stablecoin crashed. Those in India aren't so fortunate. https://bloom.bg/3GShXKU

🇨🇳🇺🇸 The dispute over forced labor in Xinjiang is redefining the entire US-China relationship. While Washington ramps up pressure over human rights abuses, Beijing is moving to integrate the region more with the world. https://bloom.bg/3Q4qFtG

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🌾 Turkey and Russia reach a tentative deal to restart Ukrainian agricultural shipments from a key Black Sea port, but Kyiv remains skeptical of the proposed pact, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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🛑 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was prevented from visiting Serbia after that country’s neighbors banned his flight from their airspace. India, meanwhile, is in talks to boost crude imports from Rosneft PJSC as refiners in Asia’s second-biggest oil market have been enjoying a windfall from discounted Russian oil.
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🪖 The UK plans to send rocket systems to Ukraine that will let it strike locations as far as 80 kilometers (50 miles) away, less than a week after the US said it would provide similar weapons.
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🍎 💻 Apple unveiled its biggest MacBook Air redesign in over a decade, with new colors and a speedier processor from its homegrown chip line at its Worldwide Developers Conference. https://bloom.bg/3zlukgY

📈 Relief could be on the horizon for shoppers worldwide as three key drivers of inflation are seen easing from recent peaks. https://bloom.bg/3GTxkTu

⛽ Fuel shortages are causing rising anger across the world, with developing nations suffering the biggest hit from the oil shock. https://bloom.bg/3Qh3LQb

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⚙️ Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that key industrial sectors are facing major slowdowns even as he highlighted signs of economic strength, underlining the challenges the Kremlin faces as the impact of international sanctions deepens.
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💬 Olaf Scholz tells the Baltic nations on a visit to Vilnius that Germany is prepared to deploy more troops in the region as part of NATO’s plans to build up its eastern flank after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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🗣 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says he's "very happy" that Boris Johnson survived the confidence vote and considers "Great Britain as a great ally."
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📈 China’s tech stocks jumped, with the Hang Seng gauge rising as much as 4.3%, as Beijing approved new video games following a crackdown. https://bloom.bg/3xbcLxr

💨 Officials in one Chinese city say they can’t figure out where new Covid infections are coming from — and suspect the wind is blowing it in from North Korea, with whom they share a border. https://bloom.bg/3NZCAqP

🏙 And these are the 20 most expensive cities in the world for expats: https://bloom.bg/3zke0wV

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🌾 Talks between Russia and Turkey bring no signs of progress on a deal to unblock shipments of Ukrainian grain that have contributed to warnings of a global food-supply crisis.
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🗣 Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that isolating Russia isn’t possible long term even if President Vladimir Putin made a “big mistake” by invading Ukraine.
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🪖 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says the lack of a hardware prevents Ukrainian forces from advancing against the Russian army.
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💰Elon Musk's Twitter bid leans on a secretive backer who has committed $700 million to finance the deal and is linked to a Russian tycoon. https://bloom.bg/3zrKzJ9

🛑 Meta has halted the development of an Apple Watch rival with dual cameras and is instead working on other devices for the wrist. https://bloom.bg/3xyK1QB

🚙📈 The cost of a license to own a car in Singapore has surged to a record, surpassing S$100,000 (about $72,700). https://bloom.bg/3mtpIxJ

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🇺🇸 In the first public hearing on the Jan. 6 US Capitol riot, a House panel laid blame on Donald Trump. Here are the key takeaways: https://bloom.bg/3HpfxE5

⬆️ Inflation is hitting American households like never before. Gas and grocery prices have been rising at double-digit levels and are probably about to get worse. https://bloom.bg/3Qfrnof

🌴 Billionaire Larry Ellison is turning his Hawaiian island into a paradise for the rich — and pricing out families who have lived there for generations. https://bloom.bg/3tuwOpA

📉 Bitcoin plunged to an 18-month low during Asia trading on Monday as the impact of US inflation continued to reverberate. https://bloom.bg/3tsTdn2

💹 A global selloff also deepened, with Asian stocks dropping and the Japanese yen reaching a 24-year low. https://bloom.bg/3tz5oil

🤖 And Google suspended a software engineer who publicly claimed an AI bot had become sentient. https://bloom.bg/3NQkLeg

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🐻 The S&P 500 is officially in a bear market. These are the next steps to take with your stocks, starting with keeping cool. https://bloom.bg/3HkDjkh

📉 Stocks sank deeper on Tuesday amid a surge in bond yields. Investors are expecting sharper Fed rate increases to fight high inflation. https://bloom.bg/3QhQ6bt

💨 Crypto billionaire fortunes are vanishing as quickly as they were made. Seven of the world’s richest crypto founders have lost a combined $114 billion since November. https://bloom.bg/3zBNJtW