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Report: Trump Considers More Russia Sanctions as EU Eases Theirs

CBS News reported on Thursday that the Trump administration is considering further restrictions on Russian oil, gas, and banking, even as the European Union (EU) prepares to remove several ultra-rich Russian oligarchs from its sanctions list under pressure from Hungary and Slovakia.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's Presiden

Yellen: More Bank Consolidation ‘Wouldn’t Surprise Me’

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that some banks are seeing earnings pressure and this provides incentive for bank consolidation, “and it wouldn’t surprise me to see some of that going forward.” Yellen said,

Janet Yellen