RUSSIA & UKRAINE POW SWAP MAY HAPPEN IN 2-3 WEEKS - TASS

TASS reported that a prisoner-of-war exchange between Russia and Ukraine may take place within two to three weeks, a development with no direct stated figures or policy commitments attached. The transmission channel here is geopolitical risk sentiment rather than fundamentals: prisoner exchanges typically signal channel-level diplomacy between belligerents, which can modestly compress the risk premium embedded in Russian and Ukrainian sovereign debt, Ukrainian hryvnia-linked instruments, and regional equities and currency pairs. Assets most sensitive to this kind of headline are Ukrainian Eurobonds and the hryvnia, where thin liquidity means even incremental de-escalation signals can move spreads, while Russian ruble and domestic bonds respond more to sanctions expectations and oil revenues than to humanitarian arrangements. Because the report originates from a state-aligned outlet and gives no timeline confirmation from the parties themselves, traders should treat it as an unconfirmed signal with limited persistence unless corroborated. The next concrete catalyst to watch is an official confirmation from Kyiv or Moscow, or a Turk

HIGH-impact news is typically a market-moving event with multi-pip or multi-percent intraday reactions. Examples include central bank rate decisions, major CPI/NFP releases, geopolitical shocks, mega-cap earnings beats/misses, and regulatory announcements. Traders typically position-reduce or hedge ahead of scheduled HIGH-impact events, and follow the wire in real time to react to unscheduled ones (war headlines, central-bank emergency statements, surprise corporate actions). The Trading News Terminal squawk box reads every HIGH-impact headline aloud the moment it hits the wire — so active traders don't have to stare at the feed.

Active traders typically follow a three-step workflow when a market-moving headline hits the wire: (1) read the headline on the terminal or hear it on the squawk box; (2) assess whether the news is already priced in (by checking intraday price action in the seconds before) or whether it's genuinely new information; (3) act — either entering a breakout position, fading an overreaction, or tightening stops on existing trades. Trading News Terminal's Pro plan delivers wire-grade headlines within seconds of the source, with automatic audio squawk on every HIGH-impact event, so the read-assess-act cycle never waits on a refresh button.