Russia's Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina, asked about the recent frenzy of Reddit-fuelled retail trading, said the bank was looking into it and highlighted that restrictions for non-qualified or non-professional retail investors were important.
U.S. consumer sentiment unexpectedly fell in early February amid growing pessimism about the economy among households with annual incomes below $75,000, even as the government is poised to deliver another round of COVID-19 relief money.
Hungary could sign a deal to buy coronavirus vaccines from China on Friday or Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio, adding the country was waiting to see the outcome of mass inoculations with a Chinese vaccine in neighbouring Serbia.
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MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia is in talks with China over debt relief and expects to return to economic growth this year of 3.2% after an estimated 3% contraction in 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis, Finance Minister Samuel Tweah told Reuters on Thursday.
Tweah said he had feared the worst when the pandemic struck last year, since the West African nation’s economy was already fragile partly due to the winding down of some foreign aid flows after a 2014-16 Ebola outbreak.
“We thought the economy would have collapsed, but it did not happen,” he said in an interview. “That suggests strong resilience. We are optimistic.”
MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe rose for a 10th straight session on Friday and hit another record high as investors anticipated new fiscal aid from Washington to help the U.S. economy recover, while benchmark U.S. Treasury yields rose to their highest levels since.