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Russian inflation accelerates to 7.61% m/m in March, highest since 1999
Date: April 8, 2022
(Reuters) – Consumer prices in Russia jumped 7.61% in March, their biggest month-on-month increase since January 1999, data showed on Friday, as the economy took a hit from sanctions and a record fall in the rouble. Inflation in Russia has accelerated sharply in the past few weeks as the rouble slipped to an all-time low...
Ukraine says 50 killed in rocket strike on rail evacuation hub
Date: April 8, 2022
By Janis Laizans and Elizabeth Piper KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine said at least 50 people were killed on Friday and many more wounded in a rocket strike at a railway station packed with civilians fleeing the threat of a major Russian offensive in the country’s east. As regional authorities scrambled to evacuate the vulnerable, European...
UK’s Sunak hits out at ‘smears’ over wife’s tax status
Date: April 8, 2022
By Michael Holden (Reuters) – British finance minister Rishi Sunak hit back at what he called “smears” about his multi-millionaire Indian wife over her tax status, in criticism that commentators say has damaged his chances of being the country’s next prime minister. The row over the tax status of Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy comes as...
U.N. shifts aid east in Ukraine, plans convoys to rebel areas
Date: April 8, 2022
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. humanitarian office (OCHA) is moving aid eastwards in Ukraine and plans aid convoys to the rebel regions of Luhansk and Donetsk next week as fighting shifts, a spokesperson told a press briefing on Friday. “We have in our planning convoys to go there I understand already next week....
Credit Agricole stake in Italy’s Banco BPM sparks bid speculation
Date: April 8, 2022
By Valentina Za and Andrea Mandala MILAN (Reuters) -France’s Credit Agricole has become the single largest investor in Banco BPM after buying a 9.2% stake, raising the prospect of a full takeover bid and sending shares in Italy’s third-largest lender sharply higher. The move increases the French group’s exposure to its main foreign market, where...
Exclusive-AIG looks at cutting insurance for Russia, Ukraine -sources
Date: April 8, 2022
By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) – AIG, one of the world’s biggest commercial insurers, is considering cutting cover for Russia and Ukraine, to shield itself from the risk of hefty claims as sanctions ratchet up and the war drags on, an insurance broker and a source familiar with the matter said....