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Easter Ceasefire Bid Met With Intensified Russian Strikes, Zelenskiy Reports

       A firefighter inspects a compound of a private enterprise hit by a Russian missile strike, in Chernihiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russia has sharply escalated its aerial attacks in response to Kyiv’s proposal for an Easter ceasefire, turning what was intended to be a period of calm into one of the most intense bombardments in recent weeks. According to Ukraine’s air force, Russia launched a rolling wave of assaults beginning Thursday evening, deploying over 400 long‑range drones and multiple ballistic missiles aimed largely at frontline regions. Officials say Moscow is experimenting with new flight routes, upgraded drones, and revised tactics to probe and overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses.  The escalation mirrors an earlier attack this week, when an overnight drone barrage of more than 300 drones was followed by another large‑scale strike in broad daylight—an increasingly common pattern that disrupts public services, tran...

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Stocks Rally, Yields Fall on Fed’s Mixed Messages



The stock market rallied and bond yields fell after the Federal Reserve sent mixed messages about its future policy. 

The Federal Reserve is in a “sweet spot” and may start cutting interest rates in the first half of 2024. The rally in the bond market is driving global bonds to their best month since 2008. The Bank of Japan left its policy rate unchanged and appeared in no hurry to remove negative interest rates. The yen slumped as much as 1.1% to the weakest level in a week, while the Nikkei 225 Index rallied 1.4% to a two-week high.


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