Finances

“We are open for business but we are attached to reciprocity, level playing field & values,” Ursula von der Leyen wrote on Twitter.

For the sake of high profitability, a large number of Russians began to open investment accounts to buy stocks and bonds, and began to invest their savings in complex stock instruments. Due to ignorance of the specifics of such investment, many citizens have lost and continue to lose their savings.

In the Moscow office of the gold mining company Petropavlovsk, investigative actions were carried out against the founder and former CEO of the company, Pavel Maslov.

The heads of pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Moderna are included in the list of 50 new billionaires who have made a fortune in the health sector amid the coronavirus pandemic.

All countries of the world have spent more than $13 trillion on the fight against coronavirus.

Yandex has spearheaded a $ 4 million investment round in genetic research medical services Genotek.

On December 9, the FTC, along with attorneys general from 46 states and two counties, filed a lawsuit against Facebook. The authors of the complaint are confident that Facebook adheres to a special strategy and, with its help, maintains a personal monopoly on the social media market.

Six-year-old Anastasia Radzinskaya from Krasnodar for the second time entered the ten highest paid bloggers on YouTube according to Forbes

The Bank of Russia has extended until April 1 the recommendation for banks to restructure loans and borrowings to individuals without penalties and fines.

This follows from the Treasury’s report on the macroeconomic and monetary policy of the main American trading partners.

In the near future, a number of factors will help determine the situation in the financial markets and the ruble exchange rate in particular.

The federal budget of the Russian Federation in January-November 2020 was executed with a deficit of 2.5 trillion rubles.

Germany in particular and the European Union as a whole lose billions of euros every year due to restrictive measures against Russia.

Next year profit of Russian banks will completely decrease by 2 times due to overdue loans of debtors and low interest rates on loans.

The Russian ruble is strengthening against the dollar, while some other currencies are rising.