While India explores the Sun and Roskosmos aspires to explore Mars, companies are solving their problems: domestic diode manufacturers demand duties of up to 400% on foreign products, Alfa-Bank is the first to announce the issuance of replacement bonds. , Saudi Aramco plans to list shares on the stock exchange, and the Central Bank intends to publish a report on AI to further discuss this area of activity with market players. We continue to follow newsworthy events for entrepreneurs.
- The Central Bank plans to expand the powers of the Eurasian Reinsurance Company from insuring only export credits to “universal reinsurance activities.”
- The Central Bank also promises to publish a report on artificial intelligence before the end of the year, which will provide an incentive to discuss its scope and control options with market participants.
- Domestic electronics manufacturer GS Group has called on the government to impose duties of up to 400% of the customs value of foreign LEDs to stimulate production and sales of Russian products.
- The financial authorities of Saudi Arabia are once again discussing the possibility of the Saudi Aramco oil company going public: it is planned to sell a share worth 50 billion dollars (WSJ).
- The management of the Meta corporation (recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) is considering the possibility of introducing in the EU paid subscriptions to Facebook and Instagram that involve disabling advertising (NYT).
- Throughout the year, business interest in the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) grew by 25% and hotel prices in Vladivostok increased by 46% prior to the event.
- On September 1, Alfa-Bank’s board of directors approved two replacement bond issues for 15,000 and 10,000 million rubles due in 2025, and this is the first bank to announce the placement of a substitute for Eurobonds.
- Billionaire Mohammed Al Fayed, former owner of Fulham football club, Harrods department store and father of Princess Diana’s last partner, has died in England.
- India has successfully launched the Aditya-L1 Automatic Solar Station.
- And Roskosmos has promised that the Russian Boomerang interplanetary station will be launched to transport land from Mars’s moon Phobos after 2030.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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