In the coming days there will be many summaries: already today, publications and analytical companies rank the richest people in the world and the most failed IT projects, forecasting exchange rates and rising prices for goods and services. And RB traditionally follows key developments in the world of entrepreneurship closely.
- Russia’s global PMI rose to 54.6 in December from 53.8 in November, the highest level since January 2017 (S&P).
- Belarus signed a law ratifying the agreement on free trade in services and investments in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
- After announcing the Copilot app on Android, Microsoft launched its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS.
- Google agreed to pay $5 billion to settle a 2020 class-action lawsuit that alleged it continued to monitor Chrome users’ activities even in incognito mode.
- Bloomberg predicted an increase in Russian diesel exports of 18% to 3.39 million tons in January.
- The Central Bank of the Russian Federation did not revoke the banks’ licenses for more than 16 months, which, according to RIA Novosti, “happened for the first time in the entire history of modern Russia.”
- The Ministry of Economy has improved its estimate of Russia’s GDP growth in 2023 from 2.8% to 3.5%.
- The agency also proposed introducing tariff quotas for the export of canned fish (4.4 thousand tons) and shellfish (100 tons) outside the EAEU, which will be valid until the end of 2024.
- The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation submitted to the government a draft order on an investment project worth 1 trillion rubles for the production of civil aircraft. Within the framework of the development program of the aviation industry until 2030, it is planned to produce more than 1,080 of them.
- At the end of 2023, the Ministry of Health’s list of potentially scarce medicines included 153 medicines, 58 more than in January (“Pharmvestnik”).
- Bloomberg once again named Elon Musk, who earned $95.4 billion in 2023, the richest person in the world.
- One of the billionaire’s companies, SpaceX, made the final launches of a record year. There were 98 launches in total, up from 61 in 2022, with the last two taking place three hours apart, also an industry record.
- At the same time, its own social network X, as well as Microsoft’s tablet, became the main failures in the field of information technologies, according to Engadget.
- Izvestia recalled which products and services will become more expensive in 2024: housing and communal services, electricity, tourist trips, imported wine, tobacco products, juices, confectionery, etc.
- The publication also interviewed financial experts and reported on the expected average ruble exchange rate of 94 per US dollar.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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