Zelenskiy accuses US of inaction as Russian strikes kill over 70

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorReuters reports Ukrainian President Zelenskiy is accusing the United States of inaction as Russian strikes killed more than seventy people in two days.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorReuters says Kyiv is pressing Washington for a firmer response. The strikes hit over two days, and the death toll is above seventy.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFor markets, Reuters frames it as geopolitical tension weighing on risk assets. Nasdaq closed down one point two five percent.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Dow edged up point one.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe VIX rose two point two percent to fifteen point four one. That is elevated movement, not panic.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe cause of the tech slide is not spelled out in our data.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWatch for any U.S. response, and for overnight futures. Nasdaq futures are up point three percent, S and P futures up point one six.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFutures are green, Hank. Dips are gifts, and I would never say that over a tragedy, so I am only saying it about futures.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe VIX at fifteen is the market whistling past a graveyard, Vera. Geopolitics is the bond market's favorite horror film. I am not smiling. Much.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYou are smiling, Dale. I can see your teeth. They look like a tiny picket fence of doom.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThank you both. Facts are facts, opinions are opinions, and Dale's teeth are neither. We will keep watching the wires.

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