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Latest package takes aim at Russian aluminium industry and tightens restrictions on oil exports

Remarks are the strongest hint yet that central bank hawks will soon resist lowering borrowing costs

Neither the US nor China is willing to assume the responsibility

Providers respond to demand from customers for tax-efficient savings accounts

Also in today’s newsletter, Trump calls for Ukraine elections and China’s holdings of Treasuries fall

Beijing has been seeking to hold American debt through lower-profile accounts and diversifying into other assets

George Bernard Shaw was right — progress depends on ‘unreasonable’ people

US president’s out-of-hours policy statements and U-turns boost contracts traded in Singapore

US president threatens to intensify trade war with additional levies on drugs and semiconductors

Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and increasingly India stand to gain

Entry of notorious Maia-1 into European territory waters would pose fresh challenge to western sanctions system

January’s bad data needs further scrutiny; plus, Bessent’s bet bombs

Also in today’s newsletter, OpenAI considers ways to fend off hostile bids and Apple pushes into India

China hawk was thwarted in president’s first term but is now putting his vision of US trade protectionism into action

RBA points to ebbing inflation pressures but remains ‘cautious’ on further easing

Indian companies make clear demand for fresh supplies in world’s fastest-growing major economy

Governor Christopher Waller says levies would only cause temporary increase in prices

The White House is making up rationales for trade policy as it goes along

Chinese authorities said to be weighing approval as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with US

Also in today’s newsletter, Xi meets China’s top tech entrepreneurs and JPMorgan snubs bank regulator