— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: The European Union has adopted a 15th sanctions package against Russia, adding 52 vessels from the shadow fleet attempting to bypass Western restrictions on oil, arms, and grain
This brings the total to 79 listed vessels. The new package also includes sanctions on 84 individuals and entities, including seven from China.
— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: The European Union has adopted a 15th sanctions package against Russia, adding 52 vessels from the shadow fleet attempting to bypass Western restrictions on oil, arms, and grain
This brings the total to 79 listed vessels. The new package also includes sanctions on 84 individuals and entities, including seven from China.
Perpetrators of these scams will create a public group on Telegram to promote these investment packages that are usually accompanied by fake testimonies and sometimes advertised as being Shariah-compliant. Interested investors will be asked to directly message the representatives to begin investing in the various investment packages offered. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. There was another possible development: Reuters also reported that Ukraine said that Belarus could soon join the invasion of Ukraine. However, the AFP, citing a Pentagon official, said the U.S. hasn’t yet seen evidence that Belarusian troops are in Ukraine. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 230 points, or 0.7%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3% and 2.2%, respectively. All three indexes began the day with gains before selling off. "We're seeing really dramatic moves, and it's all really tied to Ukraine right now, and in a secondary way, in terms of interest rates," Octavio Marenzi, CEO of Opimas, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. "This war in Ukraine is going to give the Fed the ammunition, the cover that it needs, to not raise interest rates too quickly. And I think Jay Powell is a very tepid sort of inflation fighter and he's not going to do as much as he needs to do to get that under control. And this seems like an excuse to kick the can further down the road still and not do too much too soon."
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