Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday allowed Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk to keep his job after the leak of an embarrassing audio recording prompted Honcharuk to submit his resignation.

SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea’s central bank kept its benchmark rate steady on Friday, as largely expected, as it assesses the impact of earlier easings amid concerns that rock-bottom interest rates meant to power a recovery could be stoking a property bubble.

The Federal Reserve is shifting its focus from writing and revising rules aimed at limiting risk in the banking system to a concentration on how lenders interpret the restrictions, the agency’s supervision chief said Friday.

Deutsche Bank AG is cutting the bonus pool at its investment bank by about 30%, deepening pay reductions after a tumultuous year that saw the lender embark on a huge restructuring.

Edelman, the largest two-legged shareholder of $200-billion-plus Edelman Financial Engines, speaks with Barron’s Advisor about his role with the company and why its future is all about the retail client. He also takes aim at an industry cash cow.

Russia’s foreign trade surplus decreased by 16.1% in 2019 year-on-year to $163.1 bln, the Central Bank reported on Friday.

Recent events show how the Trump administration is wielding U.S. economic might—through tariffs, sanctions and other means—as a geopolitical weapon.

Prime Minister Honcharuk offers to resign, Zelensky asks him to stay   After four months in office, Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk handed in a resignation letter to the president after audio recordings of Honcharuk’s closed meeting with several ministers were leaked online.

Analysts at UBS see very different fortunes for two big names in social media—Snap and Twitter.

Former top executives and minority shareholders of PrivatBank have filed lawsuits against the State Deposit Guarantee Fund, the Finance Ministry and state-owned PrivatBank.