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Russia defaulted on its foreign-currency sovereign debt for the first time in a century, the culmination of ever-tougher Western sanctions that shut down payment routes to overseas creditors.

The US economy is likely to slow in 2022 and 2023 but will “narrowly avoid a recession” as the Federal Reserve implements its rate-tightening plan to curb inflation, the International Monetary Fund said.

“The policy priority now must be to expeditiously slow wage and price growth without precipitating a recession, as global supply constraints and domestic labor shortages are likely to persist, and the war in Ukraine creates additional uncertainties" the IMF said in a statement Friday.

Industrial metals are on track for the worst quarter since the 2008 financial crisis as prices are pummeled by recession worries. Copper, which hit a 16-month low of $8,122.50 a ton on the London Metal Exchange on Friday, has ricocheted into a bear market from a record four months ago. Tin also tumbled 21% in its worst week since a 1980s crisis froze London trading for four years.