Egypt’s benchmark stock index is soaring ahead of developing-nation peers, buoyed by growing investor interest in a market that’s seen benefiting from government measures to revive the economy. Source: bloomberg.com

Tehran’s crackdown on protests and the threats of new U.S. strikes are weighing on the currency and stifling economic activity. Source: wsj.com

“We’ve done about $500 million of economic impact in the Bay Area,” Jed York, principal owner of the Super Bowl host team San Francisco 49ers, said last week Source: seattletimes.com

President Donald Trump said that US government officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are in discussions with Cuba’s Communist regime as the island nation faces worsening economic conditions. Source: bloomberg.com

Australia’s central bank board assessed that the economy’s outlook had “materially shifted” with banks freely lending, the jobs market resilient and consumer prices staying stubbornly high when it decided to execute a U-turn and raise interest rates this month, minutes of its Feb. 2-3 meeting showed. Source: bloomberg.com

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