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Manufacturers With Ties to Russia Struggle to Unwind
Manufacturers With Ties to Russia Struggle to Unwind

Manufacturers with Russian ties are working to figure out how to survive, after sanctions leveled on Russia over recent weeks curb the flow of goods and money between the country and Western markets. Sanctions, and private companies’ moves to pull back from Russia, have upended operations for companies whose ownership and supply chains link back […]

Western brands in Russian franchise deals
Western brands in Russian franchise deals

The Burger King name appears in Russian outside a Burger King fast food restaurant in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, April 5, 2013. Bloomberg | Getty Images Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelelnskyy in his address to US Congress Wednesday reiterated calls for all global brands to exit Russia — a market “flooded with [Ukrainian] blood” — as […]

Stocks Open Lower After Rally on Fed Rate Rise
Stocks Open Lower After Rally on Fed Rate Rise

US stocks and government bond yields edged down after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2018 and oil soared as the market’s focus returned to the Ukraine war. The S&P 500 declined 0.4% in early trading, after the broad-market index closed more than 2% higher on the past two consecutive […]

Oil suffers ‘spectacular’ collapse, enters bear market just 5 days after settling at nearly 14-year highs
Oil suffers ‘spectacular’ collapse, enters bear market just 5 days after settling at nearly 14-year highs

US and global benchmark crude oil officially entered a bear market on Tuesday, just five trading days after they settled at their highest prices since 2008. “The collapse has been spectacular,” Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst at ThinkMarkets, in a market update. On Tuesday, the front-month April West Texas Intermediate crude futures contract CL.1, -7.18% CLJ22, […]

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