Following Amazon Alibaba spends billions on the purchase of traditional hypermarkets. What will come of it? MAIN Founder of Alibaba Jack Ma. Photo: kremlin.ru /( cc by 4.0 ) This morning, Alibaba Group announced the purchase for $ 2.9 billion 36% of the shares of Sun Art Group, which controls Auchan hypermarkets in China. In total, since 2015, Alibaba spent $ 9.3 billion on offline, and American Amazon - $ 13.4 billion for the purchase of the Whole Foods grocery stores alone.

For new US sanctions, investments in OFZ may fall. If foreigners begin to sell, support for this market will have to provide the Central Bank. MAIN Chairman of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina. Photo: kremlin.ru By February 2018, the US Ministry of Finance should consider the appropriateness of the ban on investment in the Russian public debt.