Nigeria, Feb. 18 -- This report is from today's TNC's Daily Open, our international markets update. TNC Daily Open keeps investors informed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are.

Europe was rushing to establish a position in this new global order. At the same time, the United States took a sabbatical (from radical changes in government policy and its bureaucracy) across the Atlantic.

After being excluded from U.S.-led negotiations between Washington and Moscow on the almost three-year Russia-Ukraine war, European leaders hurried to Paris on Monday to discuss plans for peace in Ukraine. The meetings are scheduled to start on Tuesday.

The European leaders' meeting occurred just one day after the Munich Security Confer...