Thursday, February 19

Stocks and Markets

European stocks bounced and government bond yields dropped on Monday as investors looked forward to an interest rate cut from the European Central Bank (ECB), while U.S. jobs data kept the focus squarely on inflation.

Russia’s finance ministry has raised its estimate of this year’s budget deficit to 2.12 trillion roubles ($23.76 billion) or 1.1% of gross domestic product, according to budget amendments submitted by the government to parliament.

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