Ukraine Financial News

Hollywood star Ben Stiller said his fellow comedic actor Volodymyr Zelenskyy was his hero as he met the Ukrainian president in Kyiv. 

Ukraine has raised an additional USD 103,000 through the sale of a CryptoPunk non-fungible token (NFT), while a Nobel prize winner donated over USD 103m for Ukrainian child refugees.

France's President Emmanuel Macron will hold talks with his rivals on Tuesday, to try and strike a deal to form a working government. 

Europe and the U.S. face a high likelihood of recession as central banks are forced to aggressively tighten monetary policy to combat inflation, according to Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing.

The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold in New York on Monday night for $103.5 million (€98.3 million), shattering the old record for a Nobel.

Britain is facing its biggest rail strikes in decades after last-minute talks between a union and train companies failed to reach a settlement over pay and job security.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Georgia's capital Tbilisi on Monday to demand EU membership for the former Soviet republic in the Caucasus.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said the economy appears on track for more expansion this year, and that the central bank must meet market expectations for rate rises as part of its effort to rein in inflation.

Russia’s military kept on grinding down Ukraine’s defences on Monday, with combat in eastern areas said to be entering a “decisive” phase.

It's all going up: electricity, diesel, vegetables, the Internet, hotels, flights, and now, interest rates.

Lithuania has banned the transit of some goods through its territory from Russia to its exclave of Kaliningrad.

Russia's blockade of Ukrainian grain exports is a "real war crime", the EU's top diplomat told reporters ahead of a meeting of foreign affairs ministers.

What's the price of peace?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday called the coming week "historic", with the European Commission's recommendation that Ukraine become a candidate for membership to be discussed by leaders of the 27-nation bloc.

Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble alliance has lost its absolute majority in the French National Assembly, just two months after he was re-elected as president. 

A victory with a taste of defeat: President Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble alliance is certainly in the lead in the second and final round of the legislative elections, but far from an absolute majority in the face of the strong breakthrough of the united left as well as the National Rally, according to exit polls.

BERLIN—Germany will restart coal-fired power plants and offer incentives for companies to curb natural gas consumption, marking a new step in the economic war between Europe and Russia.

Russia's war in Ukraine could take years, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a German weekly newspaper, asking the invaded country's western allies to continue supporting it.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its fourth month, is preventing grain from leaving the "breadbasket of the world" and making food more expensive across the globe.

crypto world over the past few weeks is enough to make even the most enthusiastic Web 3 supporter take a step back and assess his position. With Bitcoin diving to an 18-month-low and showing no signs of stopping anytime soon, crypto lenders such as Celsius halting transactions to curb the volatility amongst crypto assets and exchanges like Coinbase firing staff to keep itself steady, the outlook for the entire industry seems to have changed drastically from just a few months ago when products and technologies like NFTs and metaverse was on everybody’s minds. Added to these are global headwinds that have created the perfect storm that we’re seeing the crypto industry go through currently. Indeed, with 40-year-high inflation in the US pushing the Fed to raise interest rates, daily items getting costlier thanks to high oil prices, the uncertainty over the war in Ukraine and the threat of Covid-19 and possibly monkeypox lurking just around the corner, things have decidedly taken a turn for the worse wherein investors have started dumping riskier assets such as equities and crypto assets.

Nearly all of Wall Street and the Fed botched market calls for 2022