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        <title><![CDATA[Sylvia Westall - Managing Editor:FX/Rates EMEA & US]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bond Traders Await Powell, Tariffs News as Shutdown Continues]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during a Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce 2025 Economic Outlook luncheon in Warwick, Rhode Island, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Powell said the outlooks for the labor market and inflation face risks, reiterating his view that policymakers likely have a difficult road ahead as they weigh further interest-rate cuts.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin Tests How Far Trump Will Go Against Europe on Sanctions]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:10:19 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Letters reading &quot;We are together&quot; in the colours of the Russian flag displayed outside the US embassy in Moscow on March 19. Photographer: NIKITA BORISSOV/AFP</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Keeps Record High Rates to Tame Stubborn Price Growth]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:40:36 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Set to Keep Rates at Record High in Wait-and-See Mode]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The headquarters of Russia&apos;s central bank, Bank Rossii, in Moscow.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Replenishes Budget Seizing Property in Anti-Graft Drive]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:42:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Mulls Tough Demands on Foreign Companies Eyeing a Return]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:00:22 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bank of Russia Says Local Markets Lifted by Geopolitical Hopes]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:28:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Russian central bank in Moscow.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia’s Putin Is Said to Be Ready to Agree to Ukraine Truce With Conditions]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/russia-s-putin-is-said-to-be-ready-to-agree-to-ukraine-truce-with-conditions</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:49:17 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>In this photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Feb. 5.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russians Shun Putin’s Plea for Babies as Population Shrinks]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/as-russia-population-shrinks-putin-urges-public-to-have-more-babies</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Pedestrians in Red Square in Moscow.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russian Wage Growth Hits 16-Year Peak Amid Race to Find Workers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A worker in a meeting room in Moscow, Russia.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin Agrees to Help Trump Broker Nuclear Talks With Iran]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:21:27 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Marco Rubio, second left, Sergei Lavrov, right, and envoys in Riyadh, on Feb. 18. Photographer: Evelyn Hockstein/AFP/Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[US-Russia Talks Fuel Demand for Bonds That Fund Putin’s War]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:31:32 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Kremlin towers.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump’s Putin Embrace Risks Souring as US Urges Truce in Ukraine]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-24/trump-s-putin-embrace-could-sour-as-us-urges-truce-in-ukraine</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An employee walks near a damaged hospital following a Russian drone strike in Odesa, on Feb. 19. Photographer: Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP/Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump’s Overtures to Russia Make Ruble Year’s Star Performer]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:16:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin Assembles Team of Heavyweights to Negotiate Ukraine Deal]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:16:06 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Vladimir Putin and Yuri Ushakov. Photographer: Maxim Shemetov/AFP/Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bank of Russia Holds Rate at Record High With Hawkish Signal]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:43:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Russia&apos;s central bank in Moscow.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bank of Russia Set to Hold Key Rate With New Approach in Focus]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The headquarters of Bank Rossii, Russia&apos;s central bank, in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. U.S. President Joe Biden&apos;s debut set of sanctions on Russia for its actions over disputed Ukrainian territory hit markets with a whimper and were quickly criticized as limited in scope.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin Scored a Win With Trump. Now He May Want More on Ukraine]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:44:35 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump meeting at the 2017 G20 summit.  Photographer: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group Editorial/Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Targets Tycoons With Foreign Ties in Wartime Assets Grab]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:54:27 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Domodedovo International Airport outside Moscow. Photographer: Maxim Zmeyev/AFP/Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin Envoy Hails US Shutdown of War-Sanctions Task Force]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:40:02 GMT</pubDate>
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