Bloomberg wrote about Russia forcing Iraq out of the Asian oil market, and crypto market players are selling off bitcoin mining cards en masse – these and other important news for Thursday morning, June 23, in our daily review.

Due to large discounts on Russian energy resources, Asian importers began to favor Russia, weakening the market position of Iraq. As Bloomberg specifies, the main buyers of Iraqi oil have traditionally been China and India, which increased supplies of the resource from Russia.

Miners have started actively selling video cards on Avito, several players involved in cryptocurrency mining told Forbes on condition of anonymity. According to them, the mining market collapsed in June about five times by March-April 2022. “Those with expensive electricity have gone to zero or are even mining at a loss,” he noted.

The German government fears that Russia could take advantage of a planned shutdown of its main export pipeline Nord Stream-1 for maintenance and cut off gas supplies to the country completely, German officials told the Financial Times. In this case, filling Germany’s gas storage facilities ahead of the winter heating season would be jeopardized, raising the risk of an energy crisis.

Investment fund Baring Vostok intends to sell its stake in one of the largest collection companies in Russia – “First Collection Bureau” (PKB), three sources in the debt collection market told RBC. The information was confirmed by a representative of the fund.

Holding Baiterek, owned by the Kazakh government, is negotiating the purchase from Sberbank (MCX:SBER) its subsidiary bank in the country – Sberbank Kazakhstan. This was announced by the chairman of the Agency for Regulation and Development of Financial Market of Kazakhstan Madina Abylkasymova, reports LS.