Analysis-Vintage Zelenskiy gets less than he wanted from NATO but takes home real gains

By Tom Balmforth (Reuters) – The Ukrainian president’s performance at a NATO summit this week was vintage Volodymyr Zelenskiy: go in hard, push allies beyond their comfort zone, and go home with less than you said you wanted, but more than seemed likely only a few months ago. Zelenskiy left Western leaders in Vilnius with…

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Russia’s Lavrov: I have not heard new proposals on Black Sea grain deal

By Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that he had not heard of any new proposals on the Black Sea grain deal which expires next week but was working with Turkey on ways to ensure Russian grain exports regardless of any deal. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio…

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G20 to discuss international debt architecture, more loans to developing nations

By Shivangi Acharya and Sarita Chaganti Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Global finance chiefs will meet in India next week to discuss increasing loans to developing nations from multilateral institutions, reforming the international debt architecture and regulations on cryptocurrency, Indian officials said. The finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 (G20)…

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Analysis-Fall from grace: How the property crash unravelled Sweden’s SBB

By Marie Mannes, John O’Donnell and Chiara Elisei STOCKHOLM/LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – For hundreds of thousands of ordinary Swedes, investing in one of their country’s biggest landlords SBB was a sure bet for years. Now it is at the epicentre of a property crash that threatens to engulf the Nordic state’s economy. On Friday, the heavily-indebted…

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Shanghai Futures Exchange targets commodity storage outside China – sources

By Pratima Desai and Siyi Liu LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) -The Shanghai Futures Exchange (ShFE) is looking to expand its commodities warehousing network outside China, and is examining systems and regulations in the sector overseas, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. China’s dominant commodities bourse has a domestic network of 216 storage facilities…

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