Japan and Other G7 Nations Step Up Russian Sanctions

Credits: Tina Hartung Ukraine

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other Group of Seven leaders adopted a set of additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine at an online G-7 summit Friday to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the invasion, reports the Economic Times.

The leaders renewed their commitment to “intensifying our diplomatic, financial and military support for Ukraine, to increasing the costs to Russia and those supporting its war effort,” and countering...

https://mfame.guru/japan-and-other-g7-nations-step-up-russian-sanctions/

US and EU need one another, G7 finds new purpose as G20 takes back seat, and more

US and EU need one another, G7 finds new purpose as G20 takes back seat, and more

THE WEEKEND REVIEW – OMFIF

Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around the world

7-11 June 2021, Vol.12 Ed.23

Most-Read Commentary

US and EU need one another: While scathing about its regulatory hypocrisy, Gordon Sondland, who represented the US at the European Union from 2018-20, stressed the importance of working with the EU in the context of common threats when he spoke to OMFIF last month. Discussing squabbles...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/06/12/us-and-eu-need-one-another-g7-finds-new-purpose-as-g20-takes-back-seat-and-more/

Shipping industry agrees action on R&D investment and trade digitisation

Shipping industry agrees action on R&D investment and trade digitisation

John Denholm; photo by Mark Earthy

As world leaders meet in Cornwall, England, for the G7, the first ever meeting of the equivalent maritime bodies, titled M7, took place on Wednesday this week, organised by the UK Chamber of Shipping.

Delegates from the shipowner associations of the G7, plus those from Australia, India, South Africa and South Korea, were joined by the Secretary General of the International Chamber of...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/06/11/shipping-industry-agrees-action-on-rd-investment-and-trade-digitisation/

GLOBAL & REGIONAL DAILY (Friday, 23 August 2019)

GLOBAL & REGIONAL DAILY

HIGHLIGHTS

August 23, 2019

Global markets

Ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech today at 3pm GMT at Jackson Hole in Wyoming, markets retain a waiting stance; in Wall Street, the S&P and NASDAQ closed in marginally negative territory last night, Asian bourses traded in the black overnight while European stock markets have opened on a mildly positive tone (at the time of writing STOXX600 +0.5%). In FX markets, the British pound appears to be holding firm at 1.2206...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/08/23/188083/

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