The leading American bank JPMorgan Chase reported a decrease in profit for the first quarter by 3% - from $5.4 billion from $5.6 billion for the same period last year, writes The Wall Street Journal . The bank also increased its quarterly dividend to 30 cents from 25 cents per share and decided to conduct a buyback of $15 million. JPMorgan reported earnings of $5.38 billion, or $1.31 per common share, up from $1.28 in the same period last year.

The Ukrainian Parliament at its meeting on Friday approved a generally opposition bill on reforming the oil and gas complex, which allows for the reorganization of Naftogaz of Ukraine, but prohibits the leasing and privatization of the country's gas transportation system (GTS). The bill was supported by 242 parliamentarians with the required minimum of 226 votes, RIA Novosti reports .

The outflow of capital from funds investing in Russian stocks from April 5 to April 11 was recorded for the first time in the last 11 weeks and amounted to $40 million versus an influx of $16 million a week earlier, according to Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR). The inflow of funds into these funds lasted 10 weeks in a row and amounted to a total of $1.3 billion. From the beginning of 2012 to April 11, the total inflow into Russian funds amounted to $1.240 billion.

April 13, 2012, 21:10 Business Waiting for cheap money The Central Bank promises that loans will become cheaper Julia Orlova close 100% Rates on loans to the real sector are at the maximum level, they will soon go down, promises the head of the Central Bank Sergei Ignatiev. The Central Bank associates these hopes with low inflation and a reduction in capital outflow. Bankers do not share the optimism: rates will not decrease until the end of the year.

North Korea on Friday morning launched a rocket on which it had previously promised to deliver an artificial satellite into orbit, CNN reports , citing the South Korean television company YTN. A few days ago, Pyongyang invited about 60 journalists from 19 countries to the launch site in Pyongan Province in the northwestern part of the country. As previously reported, the DPRK intended to launch a rocket carrying a satellite between April 12 and 16 .

Sport Ours pleased Yaroslavl Russian hockey players beat the Slovaks in shootouts Oleg Koshelev (Yaroslavl) close 100% Mikhail Biryukov was recognized as the best player of the match against Slovakia itar-tass The Russian team beat the Slovak team in the first of two matches within the EuroChallenge in Yaroslavl. Zinetula Bilyaletdinov's team won only in shootouts. Yaroslavl hosted the Russian national team for the first time.

US presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said that the head of News Corp. Rupert Murdoch has effectively determined who will be Barack Obama's opponent in this November's presidential election by manipulating Fox News ' editorial policies . “Because Murdoch at a certain point said he wanted Romney (as the winner of the primaries), and the concept of 'fair and balanced' (Fox News slogan) began to imply a Romney victory," quoted Gingrich The New York Times as saying .

April 13, 2012, 08:26 Science Japanese scientists have created a computer on crabs Japanese scientists have created a processor that builds logical operations on the movement of soldier crabs of the species Mictyris guinotae in a limited space, RIA Novosti reports with reference to an article published in the electronic library of Cornell University.

Germany's ban on sexual relations between close relatives does not conflict with the right to protection of family life, the European Court of Human Rights said in a ruling published on Thursday. Seven judges of the Small Chamber of the ECHR unanimously rejected the claim of 36-year-old Patrick from Leipzig (his real name is not indicated), who was jailed for having sex with his sister, Deutsche Welle reports .

Russia and the United States cannot come to an agreement on the issue of missile defense, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday . The day before, he held a meeting in Washington with his American counterpart Hillary Clinton . “Agreement on missile defense between Russia and the United States does not appear,” Lavrov said.

Russia will support the candidate for the post of President of the World Bank , Professor Jin Yong Kim, proposed for this post by US President Barack Obama , Interfax reports . “Taking into account Mr.

State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin ordered to find out from the leadership of the capital's police what the increased security measures around the building of the lower house of parliament on Okhotny Ryad, taken on Friday morning, are connected with, Interfax reports .

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliev , during a report to the State Duma , answering the question of why internal affairs officers who made open appeals about problems in the department were deprived of their posts, assured that there is no repression in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The State Duma refused to hear the report of a group of deputies on a trip to Astrakhan, where a hunger strike of those who disagree with the results of the mayoral elections has been going on for almost a month, Interfax reports . At a plenary meeting on Friday, a deputy from A Just Russia, one of the parliamentarians who traveled to Astrakhan, Alexander Ageev proposed that the Duma vote on including the issue of the group’s report on the agenda.

Corporation Google announced the introduction of a new share structure that will allow founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to control the search engine indefinitely, the Financial Times writes on Friday . The decision to strengthen control for a “very long period”, according to corporate governance experts, was the first for a large company in the United States. It will also lead to a new class of Google shares on Wall Street.