Easing oil, bond yields to support bank margins, RBI rate hikes likely in Dec: Jefferies

Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the US are to meet Tuesday and Wednesday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in the latest bid to end the war. Key developments from past sessions since Moscow's full-scale invasion of its neighbor on Feb. 24, 2022: Feb. 28, 2022: Ukrainian and Russian delegations meet in neighboring Belarus for the first time after the invasion. Talks continue for two weeks, deciding only on humanitarian corridors for evacuating civilians. March 10, 2022: Russian and Ukraini

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to give his first news conference from the Pentagon in six months on Tuesday, just a day after a Republican lawmaker launched an effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other actions. The briefing will be Hegseth's first since May even as the US military has kept up intermittent operations against the Islamic Republic as well as fatal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in Latin America. Hegseth, who has said t

Turkey wants governments to sign a pledge to electrify 35% of the global economy by ‌2035, up from around a fifth today

Goldman Sachs maintained an overweight stance on bonds, particularly longer-duration government securities.