To everyone who was worried, how the new US sanctions will affect the ruble while you can exhale The US Department of Finance. Photo: Wikimedia Commons From Monday, everyone has been waiting for the report of the US Treasury on the consequences of possible sanctions against investment in Russian sovereign debt. Today it finally turned out that the United States does not recommend introducing them.

The Federal Air Transport Agency checked the Azur Air airline and limited its validity period to March 20, 2018, said the agency . If the company does not eliminate the violations affecting flight safety, it will be banned from carrying passengers from March 21. A source in the Federal Air Transport Agency told The Bell that the agency conducted an unscheduled inspection of the airline in December following reports of technical problems.

The report of the US Department of the Treasury on a possible ban on investments in Russian government debt says that the imposition of such sanctions could destabilize global financial markets and generally have a negative effect on international business. The document was at the disposal of Bloomberg, the original can be read here .

The Ministry of Finance is considering the possibility of allowing cryptocurrency trading in certain territories - in Kaliningrad, in the Free Port of Vladivostok, as well as on the Oktyabrsky and Russky Islands (located near these cities, respectively), said Alexei Moiseev, deputy head of the department. The draft law of the Ministry of Finance on the regulation of cryptocurrencies provides for the possibility of selling cryptocurrencies at organized auctions, Moiseev recalled.

The Bank of Russia will merge the rehabilitated Binbank and Otkritie. “The decision that Otkritie and Binbank as a bank, with the exception of some share, maybe bad assets, will be merged - we made such an internal decision,” said the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina . How the merger will be organized and what the united bank will do is still unknown.

Bitcoin continues the fall that began at the beginning of the year - its rate fell by 15% in a day and at 14:00 Moscow time it was $8207. The fall after the December highs of $20,000 is already more than 50%. The situation is similar with all other cryptocurrencies - for example, ether fell by 20%. In the entire top 100 , only one currency is getting more expensive, and by almost 50% - DigixDAO, which is a token backed by physical gold (you can read more about it here ).

Apple has published its report for the first quarter of the 2018 financial year — this is the quarter in which the results of the new iPhone model's sales launch are recorded. And, contrary to pessimistic forecasts, everything is going according to plan: the company's revenue amounted to a record $88.3 billion, despite the decline in sales of the flagship product. Apple's revenue increased 13% year-over-year. Of the $88.3 billion, about 65% came from Apple's international sales.

The most problems in December were with a sanitation at the very end of the Promsvyazbank. It took almost 300 billion rubles to save him immediately. Photo: government.ru In December, the Central Bank poured 298 billion rubles into Promsvyazbank.