BENGALURU, India — Tensions more than Russia’s war on Ukraine flared Friday at meetings of fiscal chiefs of the Group of 20 main economies, where geopolitics afflicted the atmosphere if not the agenda of the accumulating in the Indian technologies hub of Bengaluru. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemned the […]
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Stocks extended declines Friday to close a second straight week in negative territory with geopolitical tensions intensifying to contribute to a further risk-off tone in markets. The S&P 500 fell 0.71{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} to 4,348.97, building on a 2{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} loss in the previous session, while the Dow Jones index closed down 0.68{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} […]
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met face-to-face with his Russian counterpart on Thursday to demand Russia pull back troops from the border with Ukraine, as tensions and suspicions grow in a confrontation over Ukraine’s increasingly close ties with […]