A trade dispute between Germany and Russia could damage German manufacturing – one of three leading global manufacturing hubs besides the United States and China. According to Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, trade between Germany and Russia increased massively last year, with the value of goods traded climbing 34% to 59 billion euros ($64 billion).
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There’s nothing quite like enhanced and busy ‘Traded Option’ activity to herald [insider trading] price-sensitive information on forthcoming corporate news. Lo and behold, it was in late March 2022, and in the days preceding Elon Musk’s notification of a substantial interest, Twitter futures contracts suddenly started moving higher in above-average daily volume.
Only the Energy, Metals, and Utility sectors have rescued a poor 1st quarter performance on the market indices from a disastrous one. Fueled by spiking oil and commodity prices which market forecasters predict will only continue amid heightened geopolitical risks between Russia and Ukraine, rising inflation, and interest rates.
US oil giant ExxonMobil follows in the footsteps of BP and Shell by cutting ties with Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.