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Global financial markets in brief Week June 20

Stock markets gain for first time in a month, oil prices fall below $110

The G7 launches massive $600 bn projects to counter China

Targets tackle climate change, health, equality, digital infrastructure

Powell admits raising interest rates could cause a recession

He stressed the US Central Bank's commitment to "strongly" reducing inflation

What did Twitter board decide about Musk’s buyout deal?

Musk appeared virtually yesterday at Qatar Economic Forum

Lebanon CB Governor: FX reserves down by $2.3 billion in 6 months

The state spent $62.6 billion via decrees over 10 years

Lebanon, Syria, Egypt sign “conditional” agreement to supply natural gas

The World Bank wants reforms before financing the agreement

Global Financial Markets in brief week June 13

The worst week for global stocks since the markets collapsed with the outbreak of Corona in March 2020

How the crypto industry can leverage blockchains’ transparency

In order to understand and prevent market contagion

Extinguishing inflation plunges US economy into a recession

Yellen doesn’t  see a recession as inevitable

Volvo driving net zero transition of steel

The move highlights Volvo's position as a key player in climate action

Migrants still sending billions home despite pandemic hurdles

Money transfers amounted to about $605 billion in 2021

Will the FED decisions drop the US economy into a recession?

Confidence in engineering a "safe landing" has diminished

Let’s bid farewell to this Web browser

After 27 years, Microsoft has retired Internet Explorer

The Bank of England may raise interest rates to 1.25% at today’s meeting

The last time interest rates were breached by 1% was in 2009

The Federal Reserve raises its inflation forecast to 5.2% in 2022

The unemployment rate is expected at 3.7 percent by end 2022

Cloudflare says it thwarted record-breaking HTTPS DDoS flood

The DDoS attack resulted in 26 million request per second

Amazon’s troubled drone delivery project is finally taking off

Amazon produced 20 drone prototypes since Air Prime launch

Crypto winter hits hard as Coinbase lays off 1,100 employees

Long-term stagnation was cited as the cause of the layoffs

ECB plans to work on a new anti-fragmentation instrument

Upon shocking emergency meeting to address rising borrowing costs