Finances

If the next payment of Russia on Eurobonds in the amount of $235 million on June 23 does not reach creditors, then Western institutions may declare a technical default on Russia's external obligations.

Now it is worth taking a closer look at the shares of retailers, Alexey Antonov, head of the investment consulting department at Alor Broker, advised in a conversation with EADaily.

Banks began to pay extra for the exchange of dollars for rubles on the market due to the more expensive exchange of dollars for rubles than direct loans in rubles. RBC writes about it.

A strong ruble can reduce the amount of revenues to the Russian budget, said the director of the Higher School of Finance of the REU. Plekhanov Konstantin Ordov.

It will not be possible to force Norway to share windfall profits from oil and gas sales with Ukraine, said Sergei Pravosudov, director of the National Energy Institute.

The Bank of Russia denied the information that appeared in the media about the purchase of foreign currency from exporters to curb the ruble from a sharp appreciation.

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, offered to send €9 billion to Ukraine to support the country's economy.

Russia is not going to default on the public debt, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said.

Residents of Poland began to seriously save, according to the research center ARC Rynek i Opinia.

The ruble was in the top three currencies that grew against the dollar last year, said Vladislav Ginko, an expert at the RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation, economist.

Federal budget spending in the period from January to April 2022 increased by almost a quarter compared to the same period last year.

The Ukrainian government will transfer to the state enterprise "National Investment Fund of Ukraine" all Russian assets located on the territory of the country.

Inflation in Germany rose to 7.4% in April, the highest on record since the unification of the state.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the initiative of the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell to transfer the blocked assets of Russia to the authorities of Ukraine "theft".

Over $40 billion aid package to Ukraine to be approved by US House of Representatives soon, Wall Street Journal reports.