The United States and Iran have expressed mutual readiness to escalate the conflict, but neither side is able to gain a decisive advantage. This increases the risk of further months-long confrontation, in which opponents will still try to gain leverage, writes The Wall Street Journal. Militant attitude This week, Iran extended the conflict to a new important sea route as Yemen's Houthis began attacking shipping in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which separates the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden.

The next big target of Ukrainian drones after the attacks on refineries that provoked the fuel crisis were the warehouses of Russia’s largest online marketplace Wildberries, through which up to 10% of retail turnover in Russia passes. The main victims are hundreds of thousands of sellers who lost their goods in fires: their damage can amount to hundreds of billions of rubles.

The number of people in the world under 19 has peaked and is now falling due to the rapid decline in the birth rate. The expected date for the peak of the total population is constantly shifting to an earlier date. Here's how an aging population is changing consumer spending patterns and which industries stand to gain or lose from this shift.

Fundamental analysis in the spirit of Benjamin Graham or Warren Buffett provides a reliable foundation for long-term investing: regardless of the market environment, it is important for an investor to understand the business, assess the sustainability of cash flows and conclude whether the company is overvalued or undervalued. Using three reports released this week—Alphabet, MSCI, and Honeywell—to show what questions investors should ask before investing in individual companies.

The British Reckitt Benckiser has agreed to sell its Russian division of household chemicals to Arnest Management, a structure of the Arnest group of Alexei Sagal. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but Reckitt expects to write off about 175 million pounds ($233 million) of loss after tax for the year. The buyer receives production in the Moscow region, rights to local brands and about 400 employees. Intellectual property for Reckitt's global brands is not included in the deal.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has begun refusing customers reservations for Falcon 9 launch vehicles for launch dates later than 2028, and has also stopped placing new orders for disposable components for these rockets, Bloomberg has learned . Pre-orders for launching associated payloads on Falcon 9 have also been stopped.

The Coffeemania chain of coffee shops has been reduced to 42 establishments, Vedomosti writes . Last year there were 55 of them. The company did not comment on this shrinkage, but market experts attribute it to the loss of popularity of individual outlets and a shift in consumer preferences.

Electricity consumption in Crimea in the first 20 days of July 2026 fell by 42% compared to the same period a year earlier, according to data from ATS (Administrator of the Trading System of the Wholesale Electricity Market), which was analyzed by The Bell. Compared to the first 20 days of June, electricity consumption decreased by 28%.

Rosselkhoznadzor has been restricting supplies of all dairy products from Armenia to Russia since July 27. The decision was made after an inspection of Armenian enterprises - the agency claims that producers used milk from “infected livestock”, as well as raw materials from countries outside the EAEU, when producing products with a high fat content.

The Donald Trump administration has imposed tariffs ranging from 10% to 12.5% ​​on goods from 60 countries under the pretext of combating forced labor. They affect 99.4% of all American imports. We are talking about updating the tariff regime. In February, the US Supreme Court ruled illegal most of Trump's tariffs, including "reciprocal" tariffs on imports from almost every country in the world and 25 percent on goods from Canada, Mexico and China.

Additional budget revenues from the progressive scale of personal income tax turned out to be less than predicted, and the main burden fell on not the highest paid workers. More than half of the increase came from investment income, but these were mainly deposits Photo: Pixabay

The EU adopted the 21st package of sanctions against Russia - the largest in terms of the number of restrictions in four years. The assets frozen included the Moscow Exchange, AFK Sistema, marketplace banks and half of the Russian banking sector, and personally Putin’s assistant Vladimir Medinsky and Russian Railways CEO Oleg Belozerov.

Daily production of oil and gas condensate in Kazakhstan fell to 1.63 million barrels on Wednesday compared to the July average of 2.07 million, an industry source told Reuters. This is a decrease of 21%. At Tengiz, the country's largest field, which is being developed by a consortium led by Chevron, production has more than halved to 406,000 barrels per day from a July average of 925,000. Bloomberg wrote about the stoppage of Kazakh exports through the CPC terminal in Novorossiysk on Tuesday.

A fifth-generation fighter Su-57 crashed near the village of Lutsino in the Odintsovo urban district of the Moscow region during a training flight, the Mash telegram channel reported . According to him, the pilot steered the plane away from residential buildings and then ejected. The type of the aircraft was confirmed by Kommersant, citing a source. According to him, there were no weapons on board and there were no casualties.

The first tanker with Indian gasoline should be unloaded in Russia this Sunday, the Financial Times has learned . A consignment of 42 thousand tons of gasoline was loaded onto the Agni tanker on June 18 in Vadinar. The Nayara Energy refinery, partly owned by Rosneft, is located there. “According to Kpler, more than 90% of the oil processed by the Vadinara refinery in 2026 is of Russian origin,” writes FT.