The stream from the White House is titled: ‚President Biden Gives an Update on our Continued Efforts in Ukraine‘

Excluded from government control are the separatist regions. What he’s appears to be saying here is that actions (or at least harsh ones) won’t be taken if Russia’s military goes into the separatist areas.So there’s a possible outcome here where Russia is spared harsh sanctions if it’s military only

He’s alluding to an earlier report by the OSCE that they recorded 80 ceasefire violations on the line of contact in eastern Ukraine as of Friday morning, with clashes in the region on Thursday the biggest since 2015.Lavrov adds that the OSCE monitoring mission has started to try and „conceal events“

I reckon the correction in oil here could run for quite a bit after having overseen eight straight weeks of gains.
At the high this week, oil peaked at $95.79 on the back of Russia-Ukraine tensions but as the headlines in the past few sessions show promising signs of hope, we are seeing oil price

Prior -0.2%
Construction output -3.9% y/y
Prior +0.5%; revised to +0.4%

That’s quite the slump in construction activity, with Austria (-8.1%), Germany (-7.3%) and France (-7.0%) the main culprits. Overall, building construction declined by 4.5% on the month while civil engineering con

Russia’s military exercises are entirely transparent
Putin will likely be in Russia’s „situation center“ to oversee drills
These exercises are impossible without the president taking part, no further comment on details

Despite all the talk of pulling back military troops, I would argu

Bitcoin
collapsed on Thursday, the most in almost a month amid sales of risky assets.
BTC lost 7.7%, ending the day near $40,700. Ethereum fell 7.7%, while other
leading altcoins from the top ten also fell, from 5.4% (Binance Coin) to 8.5%
(Terra).

 

The
total capitalization of the crypto market

Sentiment can be described as simply as the mood of the market, mainly
fear and greed. Sentiment should be the primary concern for short-term traders.
It can last an hour, a session, a day or weeks depending on what is causing it
and how much importance the market gives it. Thus, you have to ident

The mood in FX is reflecting more calm as the dollar has seen gains erased with EUR/USD flat at 1.1373 while the aussie and kiwi are pushing close to the highs for the day at the moment, as outlined earlier here.
There was a bit of a knock after the Ukraine accusation came out here but we’ve quickly

The source says that the shelling from Russian-backed forces at the front line in Eastern Ukraine is not just a routine ceasefire violation and ‚looks a lot like provocation‘. Just something to be wary about but we’ll see how things develop in the coming day(s).