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Public catering has been closed in Grozny. In Tatarstan, fast violators are fined. Military operations against the Taliban have been suspended in Pakistan. In Jerusalem, cannons are joyfully fired.

Germany's Commerzbank's purchase of Dresdner Bank from insurance company Allianz will be the largest merger and acquisition deal in the European banking sector this year. Global M&A deals totaling $145 billion were announced last month, the lowest level since September 2004, according to Bloomberg.

Today, September 2, the Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Yuriy Melnyk will hold negotiations in Russia regarding the inspection of Ukrainian meat producers. This was announced by First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy Yuriy Luzan at a press conference in Kyiv. According to him, this issue is constantly open. “There is now an intergovernmental commission working on this issue, I think we will find mutual understanding,” said Mr. Luzan. UKRINFORM

Commerzbank strengthened its position at the expense of a loss-making bank Last Sunday, Europe's largest insurance group, the German Allianz, announced the sale of its Dresdner Bank to another German bank, Commerzbank. This transaction, which became the largest in the German financial sector over the past seven years, will allow Commerzbank to significantly reduce the gap with the leader of the German banking sector, Deutsche Bank, in a number of key parameters.

Banks are increasing its price again Since September 1, a number of banks - major players in the mortgage lending market have increased lending rates. They explained their actions by unfavorable market conditions. However, experts believe that the reason for the massive increase in rates by major players is the reluctance to lose income against the backdrop of a forced massive increase in rates by partner banks of the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML).

Director of AMC "Troika Dialog Ukraine" "As long as the shares depreciate, we will not buy them" — At the beginning of summer, when the PFTS fell, you were the only ones who established a new open fund. How do you explain this? — The decision to create the fund was made back in December 2007. It just came to life only now, and in August we started selling fund certificates.

Context Russian media covered the events in South Ossetia more objectively and qualitatively than Western ones. This was stated by the Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev, speaking yesterday to students of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. The minister criticized Western journalists for bias.

PFTS does not change course At the end of the trading session, yesterday the PFTS exchange index fell by 0.29%, or 1.56 points, to 532.12 points. At the same time, a record low activity of participants was recorded - the trading volume amounted to UAH 6.06 million, with 89 transactions. Against the background of multidirectional movement of quotations of companies in the PFTS index basket, the value of the Mariupol Iron and Steel Works named after.

Place in rankingNewsDateScore 1 War in South Ossetia August 8-12 100* 2 Global and all-Russian consequences of the war August 13-31 22 3 Full sunny eclipse August 1-2 13 4 Writer Alexander died Solzhenitsyn August 3-6 5 5 Beijing Olympics August 7 4

Ural scientists managed to isolate DNA from blood samples taken from the shirt of Nicholas II, ITAR-TASS reported on September 2, citing the head of the Sverdlovsk Regional Bureau of Forensic Medicine, Nikolai Nevolin. “The obtained blood samples from the shirt of the last Russian emperor, which is stored in the Hermitage, were analyzed in a molecular genetic laboratory.

Context Lawyers for the former head of Yukos Oil Company Mikhail Khodorkovsky appealed the court's decision to refuse to grant parole to their client, said the businessman's lawyer Semyon Rosenberg. “The decision of the Ingodinsky District Court has been appealed, the documents have been sent to the regional court, but have not yet arrived at its office,” the defense lawyer said. Mr. Khodorkovsky was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2005 for fraud and tax evasion.

Viktor Yanukovych taught Raisa Bogatyreva a lesson The Political Council of the Party of Regions (PR) yesterday expelled NSDC Secretary Raisa Bogatyreva from its ranks. The reason for this was her criticism of the position of the leader of the Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovych, who called on the Ukrainian authorities to recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Meanwhile, there are other versions of sanctions against Ms.

editor of the department of economics and finance The stock market is driven by recommendations. At least that’s what global investment banks think, who, in order to convince clients to invest in securities, use analytical reports arguing why shares of, for example, a development company need to be urgently sold, and shares of a retail company need to be bought.

Oil prices fell to $111 per barrel on reports of the weakening of Hurricane Gustav on the Gulf Coast. The dollar also contributed to lower oil prices. Thus, the price of a barrel of oil on the New York stock exchange fell by $4.34 to $111.12. On the London Commodity Exchange, the fall was $4.32, the price reached $109.73 per barrel, the Associated Press reported on September 2.