In 2017, the issuance of microloans increased three times more than the market for ordinary consumers. In 2018, this difference can grow MAIN Photo: Public Domain Picture In December 2017, the Russians took a record number of microloans in 10 years. The entire market for a year has grown by 30% - three times more than the market for ordinary consumers. In 2018, the Central Bank may even more complicate the issuance of consumers.

in the first reading The State Duma approved the amendments , allowing not only the media, but also bloggers to be included in the register of foreign agents. After the law is finally adopted, any person can be recognized as a foreign agent, and all users of social networks will be required to mark the reposts of his records accordingly. The President signed the law on the status of a foreign agent for the media on November 25.

Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia in 2017, according to the Association of European Businesses (AEB), increased by 11.9% (by 170 thousand units) to 1.59 million. What will happen to the market in 2018, no one knows , for the first time in history, even the AEB. But car prices have already begun to rise. At the same time, for the first time in history, the AEB did not give a forecast of the dynamics of the Russian car market for 2018.

Airlines began to reduce prices for the World Cup, and the most - Aeroflot. In December, his general director Vitaly Savelyev met with Vladimir Putin. Aeroflot reduced ticket prices for the World Cup. Photo: Pieter Van Marion / Wikimedia Commons / CC by-SA 2.0 By the end of last year, the prices for flights to cities, where the 2018 World Cup will be held, three three times grew during the tournament.

Last year it has become a failure for the Russian stock market. What can you try to make money on this? MAIN Photo: pxher.com / cc0 public domain In 2018, inflation will return to 4%, the key rate will fall to 6.5–7%, and the ruble rate will be stable, analysts predict. Vedomosti interviewed them what to invest in. According to the results of 2017, world stock markets showed 15-50% of growth, the Russian one ended the year with a fall and record output of investment.