🇸🇰🧐 Fico: "My meeting today was a response to Zelensky, who on Thursday answered my question that he was against any gas transit through Ukraine to our territory."
❗️Putin confirmed Russia's readiness to continue gas supplies to Slovakia, but this is "practically impossible after January 1, 2025, given the position of the Ukrainian president."
🇸🇰🧐 Fico: "My meeting today was a response to Zelensky, who on Thursday answered my question that he was against any gas transit through Ukraine to our territory."
❗️Putin confirmed Russia's readiness to continue gas supplies to Slovakia, but this is "practically impossible after January 1, 2025, given the position of the Ukrainian president."
The news also helped traders look past another report showing decades-high inflation and shake off some of the volatility from recent sessions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' February Consumer Price Index (CPI) this week showed another surge in prices even before Russia escalated its attacks in Ukraine. The headline CPI — soaring 7.9% over last year — underscored the sticky inflationary pressures reverberating across the U.S. economy, with everything from groceries to rents and airline fares getting more expensive for everyday consumers. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. False news often spreads via public groups, or chats, with potentially fatal effects. 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%. Markets continued to grapple with the economic and corporate earnings implications relating to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “We have a ton of uncertainty right now,” said Stephanie Link, chief investment strategist and portfolio manager at Hightower Advisors. “We’re dealing with a war, we’re dealing with inflation. We don’t know what it means to earnings.”
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