For 2022 the number of unemployed in the capital decreased by 23% – to 28.1 thousand people, said Deputy Mayor of Moscow on economic policy and property and land relations Vladimir Efimov. “By the beginning of this year, 28.1 thousand unemployed people were registered in Moscow. This is a record low figure for the last […]

X5 Retail Group (X5 Group) in the 4th quarter of 2022 increased its total sales by 16.3% compared to the same period of 2021, up to 704 billion rubles, according to the report. In particular, the revenue of the chain of stores “at home” “Pyaterochka” increased by 13.5% (to 551.9 billion rubles), supermarket chain “Perekrestok” […]

The collapse of FTX and other crypto exchanges was enough for even the most trusting investor to start keeping their cryptocurrencies to themselves without trusting anyone else, Reuters writes. Crypto holders are opting to “self-store” their funds, transferring them from crypto exchanges and trading platforms to personal digital wallets. Among retail investors, the number of […]

SEC fined Bloomberg $5 million for incorrect asset valuations, and the government will simplify access to the stock market for investors from “friendly” countries – these and other important news for Tuesday morning, January 24, in our daily review. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has fined Bloomberg Finance for $5 million. Bloomberg’s subsidiary misled […]

The exchange price of gas at the opening of trading on ICE Futures fell by more than 10% in early trading on January 24. The cost of February futures at the TTF hub in the Netherlands fell to €59.6 per 1 MWh, or $681 per thousand cubic meters, taking into account the current exchange rate, […]

Ilon Musk testified in court for the second day in a row about his publication on Twitter about plans to privatize Tesla at a price of $420 per share and the availability of secured financing for such a deal, Yahoo writes. The proposal to privatize Tesla was based on the possibility of using in the […]

The US Department of Justice is preparing to file a lawsuit against Google because of the company’s dominant position in the digital advertising market. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to informed sources. It is expected that the case will be filed in federal court by the end of the week, the agency’s interlocutors […]

Nvidia has surged to the top, becoming the most bought stock on Wall Street after artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT conquered the world, Bloomberg writes. The chip maker’s stock has surged 29% since the start of the year, making it the top performer in the S&P 500 index, all thanks to the hype surrounding a chatbot […]

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato converted about 1 billion euros of crypto assets linked to crime, Europol said. The platform is suspected of facilitating the laundering of large amounts of criminal proceeds and converting them into rubles, the report said. On January 18, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the suspension of Bitzlato crypto exchange registered in […]

U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co. plans to cut thousands of jobs in Europe, the Financial Times reported, citing Germany’s largest labor union. IG Metall, which represents more than 2.2 million workers in the automotive, electrical and metallurgical industries, said that Ford intends to cut up to 3.2 thousand jobs in Germany and is preparing further […]

China pointed to the debt problems of the United States, which is literally “teetering” on the edge of its own debt limit, responding to criticism from the country’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen over China’s handling of its debt problems, Bloomberg writes. The criticism came from the Chinese embassy in Lusaka, Zambia, which criticized the U.S. […]

Microsoft will be the first of the major companies in the technology sector to report earnings for the last quarter of 2022, and its profits are expected to fall. At the same time, other data must be taken into account, particularly from General Electric, which suffered by presenting a weak forecast, while Johnson & Johnson’s […]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office recently seized just under $50 million from Sam Bankman-Fried’s account at Farmington State Bank, which previously had only 3 employees, writes Business Insider. The bank specialized in agricultural loans for farmers until March 2022. The firm Alameda Research later acquired a stake in Farmington, after which it was renamed Moonstone. FTX […]

More than 3,000 employees of online retailer Amazon.com Inc. in the states of New York, California and Washington received layoff notices as part of the company’s second wave of large-scale layoffs, MarketWatch reports. 2,320 workers in the cities of Seattle and Bellevue in Washington, 504 people in four California cities and another 299 in New […]

Yandex has started leasing cars for cab drivers, and RBC has learned about the plans of sporting goods retailer Decathlon to sell its business in Russia – these and other important news for Wednesday morning, January 25, in our daily review. In “Yandex.Taxi” recognized the success of the experiment on leasing cars and is launching […]

U.S. Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT). increased revenue in its fiscal second quarter by 2% for the quarter ended Dec. 31 to $52.75 billion, up from $51.8 billion in the same period a year earlier. Experts surveyed by FactSet had on average forecast the company’s revenue at $52.99 billion and net income at $2.29 per share. Microsoft’s […]

In its Jan. 23 bulletin, the Central Bank of Saudi Arabia announced that it is exploring a central bank digital currency (CBDC), but has yet to announce its official launch, Cointelegraph writes. For now, the bank is working on a phase of the project that “focuses on internal options to use CBDC for wholesale use […]

Aeroexpress LLC increased passenger traffic by 7% in 2022 compared to 2021, up to 9.5 million people, the carrier’s press service reported. The company’s share of the airport transportation market grew by 2.3 percentage points to 14.5%. As noted, this is the highest indicator for the period since 2017. According to the general Director of […]