Big League Politics
Corporate America seems to have quite the vendetta against Russia. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink put out a letter Thursday in which he addressed shareholders regarding his companyâs opinion and response to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The CEO of the worldâs largest asset manager took an emphatic stance in favor of Ukraine against Russia, claiming he finds it âparticularly painful to witnessâ due to the âindiscriminate killing of civilians.â
Fink went on to boast that in consultation with what he calls the companyâs âstakeholdersâ BlackRock has âjoined the global effort to isolate Russia from financial markets.â…