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5 Min Read LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Central bankers worldwide have been unequivocal: There are no plans to cut back on money-printing any time soon, let alone raise interest rates. FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell listens during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on "The Quarterly CARES Act Report to Congress" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2020. Susan Walsh/Pool via REUTERS Markets do not seem to be buying it. U.S. 10-year Treasury yields rose on Wednesday to one-year highs above 1.4%, extending this year’s near 50 basis-point jump that has dra...

Swedish defense leaders push Saab’s Gripen offer for Finland February 17 A Swedish Gripen jet lands at Rovaniemi airport during joint exercises between the Finnish and Swedish air forces over the Arctic Circle on March 25, 2019. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images) COLOGNE, Germany — Top Swedish defense officials have thrown their weight behind Saab’s bid for the multibillion-dollar HX fighter competition in Finland, arguing the Gripen aircraft would enable unprecedented cooperation between the two countries in thwarting a hypothetical attack by Russia. The Finnish race is o...

By Craig Hoyle2021-02-17T13:24:00+00:00 Saab’s proposed Gripen E/F and GlobalEye package for Finland will help Helsinki transform its air-defence capabilities and drive even closer defence links with its Nordic neighbour, Swedish officials have said. “The defence cooperation between Sweden and Finland is now more ambitious and more extensive than ever… including [at the] political, strategic, operational and tactical level,” says Swedish defence minister Peter Hultqvist. “The interoperability between our armed forces is improving day by day. It is clear that we act together, [and]...

Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu in New Orleans in 2010. Photo by Israeli government press office. Happy holidays and a happy end to 2020! This is Phil Weiss and I’m filling in for Michael Arria on this newsletter this week, and the best value seemed to me to relay what the Democratic Party’s Israel lobby sees as Israel/Palestine policy under a Biden administration. What will Biden do on the conflict? What should he do? And there’s a consensus from Israel’s liberal supporters. Biden won’t push for a two-state solution because there won’t be a Palestinian state in the nex...

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