The stock market reacts to the statements and actions of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the authorities against the background of the “march of justice” with a fall in the index of the Moscow Stock Exchange and the value of shares of large companies, in In parallel, Amazon announces new investments in India, Google begins testing a new feature in the search feed, and RB continues to monitor key business events.
- Against the background of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s statements about the “march of justice”, the shares of the largest Russian companies began to fall by an average of 3% -4%, but some lost more than 4% of their value .
- Several Russian banks set the dollar purchase rate above 90 rubles and the euro above 104 rubles, while the Central Bank announced on June 24 the rate of 84 rubles per dollar and 91.9 rubles per dollar. euro.
- The Moscow Stock Exchange index on Friday night fell 2.8% to 2737 points. By 10:30 a.m. on June 24, it had risen to 2,795 points.
- All mass events have been canceled in the Lipetsk, Rostov and Voronezh regions. The situation is similar in the capital, where an anti-terrorist operation regime has been declared.
- The Moscow Department of Transport warns of possible changes (delays or even cancellations) of southbound buses.
- British artist Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer” will be the first artwork to be listed on the Artex exchange, priced at around $100 per paper, based on a total value of Bacon’s work. of $55 million (The Wall Street Journal).
- The number of applicants aged 19-30 in Russia has decreased by 36% since February 2021 (Headhunter).
- Amazon plans to invest around $15 million more in its cloud services in India by 2030 (previously, the corporation had already invested $11 million in the country).
- Google is testing the Insights feature, which, in parallel with the regular search feed, will display search results from blogs and short videos from users.
- In the large cities of Russia, about 10% of sold private houses are unfinished, and investors are finishing them and selling even more at a significant profit margin (“Flats”).
- Goldman Sachs Group intends to lay off 125 CEOs worldwide amid a decline in transactions (Bloomberg).
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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