When Finance Is a Weapon of War

Dr. Andy Pekosz, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses the current state of Covid and how cases are starting to wane. Bloomberg News Foreign Policy Reporter Nick Wadhams explains why President Biden's tough sanctions have created concern that Vladimir Putin lacks an exit out of Ukraine. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Financial Investigations Senior Writer Stephanie Baker share the details of Stephanie's Businessweek Magazine story End of Oligarch Era Nears With Putin’s Miscalculation in Ukraine. Bloomberg News Senior Emerging Markets Reporter Carolina Wilson talks about major index providers officially cutting Russian assets from their gauges, ratcheting up the pressure on an exchange-traded fund industry already facing an extraordinary stress test. And we Drive to the Close with Sylvia Jablonski, CIO at Defiance ETFs.

Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Paul Brennan.

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