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Turkey mounts pressure on Sweden ahead of F-16 talks with US

Bloomberg Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu applied fresh pressure on Sweden to make concessions as he traveled to the US for talks on the sale of F-16 fighter jets, which may depend on Turkey’s ratification of the Nato expansion. Cavusoglu is expected to meet his US counterpart Antony Blinken in Washington later Wednesday to discuss the aircraft sale as well ...

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BOJ jolts financial markets but risk of a bigger shock remains

  Bloomberg An unchanged decision from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) gave global investors a modest jolt Wednesday, leaving the bigger shock of a future policy shift hanging over markets from the yen to Treasuries. Standing pat caught some traders by surprise but is unlikely to douse speculation that the BOJ will normalize policy as inflation in Japan accelerates and ...

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Morgan Stanley, BofA sell $9b of new bonds

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp (BofA) were the first of the big six Wall Street banks to announce bond sales, combining to sell $9 billion of new bonds, as the market gears up for the usual deluge of debt from the US lenders following their respective earnings reports. Morgan Stanley sold $6 billion of new debt in ...

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