Icahn's sale reportedly earned him around $200 million, as the bidding war between Dollar General (NYSE: DG ) and Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR ) sent the stock soaring. The situation in Ukraine looked to be brightening on Thursday as officials tried to determine the validity of a ceasefire agreement between Russian President Vladmir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko. The nation's central bankers maintained their two percent inflation goal and kept their economic assessment largely unchanged with the exception of a downgraded projection for housing.