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Yields for U.S. government bonds were retreating Friday morning as clashes in Ukraine picked up steam, with Russia seizing a Ukrainian power plant.

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The temporary suspension follows the freezing of the country’s assets abroad, the Russian Central Bank explained Interest payments to foreign investors holding Russian government bonds will be temporarily suspended, the country’s Central Bank announced on Wednesday. The move comes after some $400 billion of the nation’s reserves were frozen abroad as part of sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. Coupon payments for foreigners holding ruble-denominated sovereign debt (or OFZs) have been banned, and Russian companies have also been prohibited from paying dividends to overseas shareholders. The Central Bank did not specify how long the suspension, which doesn’t apply to domestic investors, would last. The measure is aimed at preventing the withdrawal of funds from the financial market and mass sales of Russian securities, the media has reported, citing a statement from the regulator’s press service. A ban on the writing-off of securities from the accounts of foreign investors has also been introduced.

Bond traders are delivering a swift, punishing verdict on the expected hit to Russian corporations from the Ukraine war. In short, it’s turning the country into a nation of junk bonds.

India had canceled two previous auctions citing its comfortable cash position as bond yields surged after the government unveiled a record borrowing plan for the next fiscal year. Still, the government last week said it will raise its borrowings through Treasury bills to Rs 1.86 lakh crore in March, from an earlier aim of Rs 1.26 lakh crore.

Share market LIVE updates: Asian stocks and equity futures sank on Friday and havens including sovereign bonds jumped on reports that a major nuclear power plant is on fire in Ukraine after shelling by Russian troops

Maryland’s State Retirement and Pension System currently holds $28 million in Russian stocks and bonds, but state officials told the legislature’s Joint Committee on Pensions on Thursday that they are working hard to divest from Russia entirely.

(Bloomberg) -- Stocks and equity futures sank Friday and havens including sovereign bonds jumped on reports that a major nuclear power plant is on fire in Ukraine after shelling by Russian troops.Most Read from BloombergUkraine Update: Nuclear Plant Hit By Russian Shells, on FireRussia’s Rating Cut to Junk; Talks on Tap: Ukraine UpdateGerman Authorities Said to Deny Seizing Usmanov YachtChina Holds Talks With Ukraine, Further Edging Away From RussiaResignation Sets In as Russians Face Their New

Futures Tumble On Report Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, Europe''s Largest Is On Fire After Shelling There has been a sharp lunge in risk assets, with futures and euro tumbling, offset by a flight to safety which has sent Treasuries, the dollar and yen sharply higher, after reports that Russia has started shelling Ukraine''s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Europe’s largest, which accounts for one quarter of Ukraine''s power generation, and which has caught fire. “There is a real threat of nuclear danger in the biggest atomic energy station in Europe,” AP reports Andriy Tuz as saying Reuters reporter Phil Stewart confirmed the report in a tweet, citing local town mayor. (Reuters) - The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the largest of its kind in Europe, was on fire early on Friday after an attack by Russian troops, the mayor of the nearby town of Energodar, Dmytro Orlov, said. https://t.co/HkoaYnlArq — Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) March 4, 2022 The Ukraine''s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has confirms Zaporizhzhia fire, saying "If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl!

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BUENOS AIRES/WASHINGTON : Argentina has sealed a US$45 billion (RM188.4 billion) debt deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the country''s government and the IMF said yesterday, after talks ironed out final wrinkles of an initial agreement reached in January. “After intense negotiations, the national government managed to seal an agreement with the IMF,” the Economy Ministry said in a statement, adding the deal would be sent to Argentina’s Congress yesterday and would look to refinance some US$45 billion. The IMF said the two sides had reached a staff-level agreement on a 30-month extended fund facility, including a programme to tame high inflation, reduce money printing to finance the fiscal deficit, and deliver positive real interest rates. The deal, which will roll over a failed US$57 billion credit facility from 2018, is key to the grains-producing country stabilising its crisis-hit economy amid rampant inflation and dwindling foreign currency reserves. In 2018, under the government of conservative president Mauricio Macri, the IMF granted its biggest-ever loan of US$57 billion to Argentina.

Illinois, the worst-rated U.S. state, is seeing its penalty in the bond market jump to the highest in nearly a year in the current risk-off environment.

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