Joker's Google Blog: Business Intelligence Monitor 220308

※ Russian forces conducted airstrikes on cities and military locations, disrupting civilian-evacuation plans, Ukraine said, while cease-fire negotiations were inconclusive

• WSJ: Occupied Ukrainian Towns Want Russian Troops to ‘Go Home’

• WSJ: Global Economy Braces for Impact of Russia’s War on Ukraine

※ Central banks are delaying or softening rate increases after relying on easy money to get through the Covid-19 pandemic

• WSJ: Oil CEOs, Biden Officials Warn Oil Volatility Is Here to Stay

• WSJ: Blinken Says NATO Is Considering More Permanent Troops in Baltics

• WSJ: How the Letter Z Became a Russian Pro-War Symbol

• WSJ: Will Inflation Fall? Any Pullback Depends on These Sectors

• WSJ: Biden Administration Seeks to Promote Unions, Underrepresented Workers in Infrastructure Spending

• WSJ: Replacing Russian Gas in Europe Will Require State Planning

• WSJ: JPMorgan to Exclude Russian Debt From Bond Indexes

• WSJ: Derby’s Take: Amid Some Signs of Stress, Money Markets Mostly Calm

• WSJ: Gasoline Prices Surge Above $4 a Gallon, With No End in Sight

• WSJ: Oil Industry Contemplates World Without Russian Crude

• WSJ: How Much Oil Does the U.S. Import From Russia?

• WSJ: How Oil Giants’ Bets on Russia, Years in the Making, Crumbled in Days

• WSJ: Boeing’s Big Bet on Russian Titanium Includes Ties to Sanctioned Oligarch

• WSJ: Russian Aluminum Giant’s Owner Considers Splitting Foreign Operations

• WSJ: Oasis, Whiting Reach Deal to Merge

• NYT: Congress moves to bar Russian energy imports and end favorable trade relations.

※ A bipartisan group of lawmakers reached an agreement on legislation that, if passed, would bar imports of Russian energy and suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus.

• NYT: Russia, Blocked From the Global Internet, Plunges Into Digital Isolation

• NYT: ‘No Wavering’: After Turning to Putin, Xi Faces Hard Wartime Choices for China

• NYT: Covid May Cause Changes in the Brain, New Study Finds

※ Brain scans before and after infection showed more loss of gray matter and tissue damage, mostly in areas related to smell, in people who had Covid than in those who did not.

• NYT: Car Industry Woes Show How Global Conflicts Will Reshape Trade

• NYT: Carmakers Race to Control Next-Generation Battery Technology

• WP: Ukraine leadership expected to ask Congress to ban corporations paying taxes in Russia from U.S. stock market

• WP: China touts ‘rock solid’ ties with Russia as it offers to mediate Ukraine conflict

• WP: Putin's War on Ukraine Shows Xi the Dangers of Attacking Taiwan

• FT: ‘People don’t want to go to Russia’: Putin’s ‘humanitarian corridors’ spark anger

• FT: Russian tankers at sea despite ‘big unknown’ over who will buy oil

• FT: EU to step up push for clean power as Ukraine conflict escalates

• FT: A grand bargain on energy?

• FT: EU considers relaxing state aid rules in response to war

• FT: Hungarian leader faces watershed moment on Russia and Ukraine

• FT: Foreign secretary admits UK has been ‘slower’ on Russian sanctions