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Every year at the energy industry’s premier gathering in Houston, speakers lament the lack of women. Yet the lineup at this week’s CERAweek by S&P Global conference doesn’t move the needle.

Israeli politicians are close to a compromise over a revamp of the legal system, President Isaac Herzog said, suggesting a tamer version of government-backed plans that have rattled markets and sparked large-scale protests.

With European Central Bank policy makers preparing to hike interest rates yet again at their March meeting, Spanish banks have been paying their customers even less for their savings.

Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson, known for being one of Wall Street’s most bearish strategists, said he’s expecting stocks to rally in the short term.

A rare moment of Israeli market turmoil may be creating this year’s best currency trade.

Brazil’s development bank plans to issue tax-free bonds to double credit operations to nearly $40 billion without the Treasury’s help, according to its planning and project structuring director.

The three-month London interbank offered rate for dollars, a major global lending benchmark, surpassed 5% for the first time in more than 15 years on Monday.

(Bloomberg) — European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said he backs half-point interest-rate hikes at every meeting through July, forcing two-year German bonds to reverse gains.