For International Women’s Day 2024, CNBC’s Tania Bryer spoke to Amina J. Mohammed, deputy secretary-general of the United Nations, and discussed the greatest challenges facing women around the world today, the importance of role models and bridging the investment gap needed to accelerate progress toward full global gender equality.
H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands is also the United Nations Secretary-General's special advocate for inclusive finance for development. She talks to CNBC's Tania Bryer about how technology could revolutionize the way people access financial services.
In her role as the United Nations Secretary-General's special advocate for inclusive finance for development, Queen Máxima explains to CNBC's Tania Bryer why there's a gender divide when it comes to access to financial services and how that divide can be bridged.
In 2009, former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands as the United Nations secretary-general's special advocate for inclusive finance for development. In her 15th year in the role, she talks to CNBC's Tania Bryer about what progress has been done and what still needs to happen to ensure everyone has fair and equal access to financial services.
President Zelenskyy stated that without new U.S. military aid, Ukraine could not protect a crucial Black Sea shipping corridor for exporting grain.
Oil prices rose in Asian trade, as investors balanced concerns about output cuts by producers and shipping attacks against reduced expectations of rate cuts.
Oil prices edged down morning as markets digested comments from Fed officials pointing to a more patient stance regarding potential interest rate cuts.
Egypt is preparing an area at the Gaza border which could accommodate Palestinians in case an Israeli offensive into Rafah prompts an exodus, four sources said.
Sanda Ojiambo, CEO and executive director of the U.N. Global Compact, joins Tania Bryer at CNBC's Sustainable Future Forum in Davos to discuss the work of the Global Compact as it marks 25 years since it was first proposed by then U.N. Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.
Oil prices rose on Thursday after an oil tanker was boarded by an armed group in Oman, raising the prospect of escalating conflict in the Middle East.