Other international news stories of local relevance worth noting this morning:

  • US President Donald Trump “toned down the dark rhetoric” in his first address to Congress. We’ll be reading takes this morning by Politico (the entire homepage at press time) and the New York Times.
  • Lining up at the trough: Citigroup is said to be in “advanced discussions” for a banking license in Saudi Arabia, “returning after a more than 10-year absence from the kingdom, as the bank looks for ways to capitalize on financial reforms,” Bloomberg reports.
  • “The Iranian economy has had an ‘impressive recovery’ following sanctions relief last year, though uncertainty regarding the fate of the nuclear deal and relations with the U.S. threaten to undermine it, the International Monetary Fund said.”
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