Stocks Jump On Reported Minsk Summit Cease-Fire Deal

Well that didn’t take long. Just an hour or so after Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko, and Putin got together to drink tea in Minsk, they have a ‘deal’:
*RUSSIA, UKRAINE, GERMANY, FRANCE LEADERS READY DECLARATION: IFX *FOUR-COUNTRY DECLARATION TO REAFFIRM MINSK CEASE-FIRE DEAL: IFX *JOINT DECLARATION IN SUPPORT OF UKRAINE’S TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY So – to summarize – they agree to a cease-fire (which saw 1000s killed and shelling continue last time) and to support Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty (except of course Eastern Ukraine?) Face-saving headline-maker comes to mind.
#Putin #Poroshenko shake hands in #Minsk pic.twitter.com/EWwORfHd0B
— Marina Buinovskaya (@MBuinovskaya_RT) February 11, 2015

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 02/11/2015.