Turkey is ready to resume talks on Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO, after negotiations had been halted following incidents including a Koran burning last month outside of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm.
A former JPMorgan Chase & Co. banker who’s now on the run was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in jail for his role in a multimillion-pound fraud against the Libyan government.
Russia’s economy contracted 2.1% last year, defying the worst fears of a major recession as surging commodity exports helped offset the impact of US and European sanctions imposed over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Zimbabwe plans to set up an offshore financial center in the resort city of Victoria Falls that the government hopes will emulate the likes of Dubai and the Isle of Man to attract foreign investment.
New Zealand’s central bank is poised to moderate its pace of interest-rate increases to a half-percentage point on Wednesday, in response to signs inflation has peaked and following Cyclone Gabrielle’s devastation.
Airbus SE should refrain from buying a stake in a division of French software company Atos SE because the purchase would represent an “extremely inefficient” use of funds and distract management at a time when it needs to focus on meeting delivery targets, activist investor Chris Hohn said.
European Union member states agreed to impose more sanctions on Iran over its crackdown on protesters, according to a European Council statement.
The $25,000 level for Bitcoin is emerging as a key technical hurdle for the token’s partial bounce from last year’s crypto rout.
Consumer sentiment in the euro area rose to the highest in a year — a sign of resilience and rising hope that the region can dodge recession this year.
The European Central Bank is close to reaching a policy stance that constrains the economy and will likely be done raising interest rates this summer, Governing Council member Olli Rehn told Boersen-Zeitung in an interview.
