McDonald’s and Starbucks fell, but Coca-Cola gained 2.8 percent.
It was a choppy day of trading, and Gregori Volokhine of Meeschaert Financial Services noted that shares jumped after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is no longer pressing for NATO membership.īut “the market is so nervous that at the slightest positive or negative headline, it reacts to avoid being too exposed,” he told AFP. The broad-based S&P 500 dropped 0.7 percent to end at 4,170.7, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite lost 0.3 percent to 12,795.55. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6 percent to finish the session at 32,632.64, the lowest in nearly a year. US gasoline prices at the pump hit a record not seen since the 2008 global financial crisis, and other commodities also continue to rise, fanning inflation in major economies. The latest steps sent oil prices up another 4.6 percent, with Brent futures rising to $128.77 a barrel. US stocks continued to lose more ground today after US President Joe Biden imposed a ban on imports of Russian petroleum, and more major firms announced they were shutting operations in Russia. Pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange in New York's Financial District, on March 23, 2021. He said that another 200 patients were stuck there without food and medicines. He said that the shelling made it impossible to evacuate the bodies of five people who died when their vehicle was fired upon in Borodianka near Kyiv and the bodies of 12 patients of a psychiatric hospital there.
The Russian artillery has pounded the outskirts of Kyiv, forcing civilians to hide in shelters while water, food and power supplies have been cut, said Yaroslav Moskalenko, an official who coordinates humanitarian efforts in the Kyiv region. And in the city of Malyn in the Zhytomyr region west of the capital Kyiv at least five people, including two children, were killed in a Russian air strike. Ukrainian officials said that that two people, including a 7-year-old child, were killed in the town of Chuhuiv just east of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine late Tuesday. Ukrainian authorities say that Russian warplanes have carried new strikes on residential areas in eastern and central parts of the country. The New York Times, citing a US official and Venezuelan human rights defenders, earlier reported the release of Cardenas and Jorge Alberto Fernandez, a Cuban American accused of terrorism for bringing a drone into Venezuela last year. While attorney Jesus Loreto confirmed the release of Cardenas, he added that “the other five are still detained.” He suggested another detainee could be released, but could not identify the individual.
Gustavo Cardenas was one of the so-called “Citgo 6” - five Venezuela-born American citizens and one with US permanent residency - who have been held in Venezuela since 2017, accused of corruption.
The release comes hours after Maduro signaled an interest in improving relations with the US amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and concerns in the United States over rising gas prices. An American citizen and former executive of Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil company, has been released from prison, one of his lawyers said Tuesday, just days after a high-level US delegation met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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