🇺🇸🇸🇾 US and Syrian officials convened in Damascus to discuss lifting sanctions and potentially delisting Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a terrorist organization. The US reportedly outlined conditions, including initiating a democratic political process and ensuring minority rights in Syria. Syrian newspaper Al Watan quoted a US official who described a separate meeting with HTS leader al-Julani as "useful and good."
🇺🇸🇸🇾 US and Syrian officials convened in Damascus to discuss lifting sanctions and potentially delisting Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a terrorist organization. The US reportedly outlined conditions, including initiating a democratic political process and ensuring minority rights in Syria. Syrian newspaper Al Watan quoted a US official who described a separate meeting with HTS leader al-Julani as "useful and good."
Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. And while money initially moved into stocks in the morning, capital moved out of safe-haven assets. The price of the 10-year Treasury note fell Friday, sending its yield up to 2% from a March closing low of 1.73%. Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. "There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said. The picture was mixed overseas. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 1.6%, under pressure from U.S. regulatory scrutiny on New York-listed Chinese companies. Stocks were more buoyant in Europe, where Frankfurt’s DAX surged 1.4%.
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