The European Central bank will "review and possibly reconsider" it monetary policy stance when it next meets in March because of weaker-than-expected inflation dynamics in the euro zone, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Thursday.

• Date: 22.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 22.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Tehran on Friday to discuss improvement of economic and political ties after lifting of international sanctions because of Iran's disputed nuclear program, state TV said.

• Date: 22.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 22.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Ukraine plans soon to launch a fresh diplomatic initiative to recover the Crimean peninsula from Russia which annexed it in 2014, Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko told Reuters on Wednesday.

• Date: 20.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 20.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

A Ukrainian government order to cut off trade with the Russian-annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea has come into effect.

• Date: 19.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Politicians and business leaders gathering in the Swiss Alps this week face an increasingly divided world, with the poor falling further behind the super-rich and political fissures in the United States, Europe and the Middle East running deeper than at any time in decades.

• Date: 18.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 18.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Oil prices plummeted to $29 a barrel Friday on the likely resumption soon of Iranian oil exports into an already flooded market as international sanctions against Iran are lifted, dragging equity indices around the world sharply lower.

• Date: 15.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 15.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump called for higher tariffs on Chinese goods if China does not stop allowing its yuan currency to devalue.

• Date: 15.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 15.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.rferl.org

Saudi Arabia plans to create a new sovereign fund to manage part of its oil wealth and diversify its investments, and has asked investment banks and consultancies to submit proposals for the project, according to people familiar with the matter

• Date: 14.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 14.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.rferl.org