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European stocks set for first weekly gain since start of war

  Bloomberg European stocks headed for their first weekly gain since the start of the Ukraine war as investors mulled central bank policy decisions and the outlook for economic growth. The Stoxx 600 Index was up 0.9% in London after briefly falling as much as 0.2% as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused continued volatility. Travel and leisure and mining stocks …

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Citi’s sale of Russian consumer unit stalls

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc, in the midst of overhauling its businesses in Russia when the country went to war, has seen efforts to sell a consumer-banking unit there stall and is helping some employees transfer abroad. The moves show how Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has quickly made the future less certain for many of Citigroup’s roughly 3,000 workers in …

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US futures, Europe stocks fall amid inflation concern

  Bloomberg Equity-index futures and European stocks fell amid concern US inflation may have accelerated for a sixth month, with investors turning to the European Central Bank to gauge policy makers’ response to the war in Ukraine. Contracts expiring this month on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes slid at least 0.2% each after US stocks posted the biggest …

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