For the first time in its history, Netflix became the most expensive entertainment companies after its market value on Thursday rose to a record $ 153 billion and exceeded the capitalization of Walt Disney CO, reports Reuters. Details Netflix shares on Thursday rose 2.3%to $ 352.90. Later, however, they sank below $ 350, thanks to which Disney regained the title of the most expensive entertaining company.

Nobel Prize winner in economics Paul Krugman has joined a group of economists and financiers who believe that developing countries may soon face a new financial crisis (Carmen Reinhart and Mark Mobius share the same opinion), writes Bloomberg .

The deal, as a result of which Sergei Galitsky ceased to be the owner of the Magnit network, is becoming more and more complicated. Today, Magnit has a new large private shareholder - a businessman with an interesting biography Alexander Vinokurov. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Today, the Marathon Group PMEF, founded by Vinokurov and his former colleague from A1 Sergey Zakharov, announced the acquisition of a 12% stake in Magnit from VTB.

Former Sberbank CIB analyst Alexander Fek, fired for a report critical of Gazprom, denied accusations of unprofessionalism brought against him by the company and the head of Sberbank German Gref. This is stated in a letter from Fack, received by the editors of Vedomosti.

The deal, as a result of which Sergei Galitsky ceased to be the owner of the Magnit network, is becoming more and more complicated. Today, Magnit has a new large private shareholder - a businessman with an interesting biography Alexander Vinokurov. Read more - in the evening newsletter The Bell. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Today, the Marathon Group PMEF, founded by Vinokurov and his former colleague from A1 Sergey Zakharov, announced the acquisition of a 12% stake in Magnit from VTB.

The US Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation and is going to find out if the price fluctuations of bitcoin and other digital currencies are related to the manipulation of traders and investors, Bloomberg writes , citing four sources familiar with the situation. Details The Justice Department wants to know if traders are using illegal methods to manipulate cryptocurrency prices.

a plenary session at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum On Thursday, Sberbank held on the ongoing transformation in the global economy. The Indian yogi and mystic Sadhguru spoke at the session at the invitation of German Gref. Despite his unusual topics (Internal Engineering, The Enlightenment Experience, The Levels of Enlightenment, and The Twenty-Five Spiritual Awakening Experience), he is often invited by reputable universities and major corporations.

said in an US President Donald Trump has canceled a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Trump open letter posted on the White House website. Details The meeting was supposed to take place in Singapore on June 12, but, according to the American leader, it is inappropriate to hold it now. The reason for the cancellation, according to Trump in a letter to Kim Jong-un, was the open hostility of the DPRK leader, demonstrated in the latest statement.

President Vladimir Putin met on Thursday at the Konstantinovsky Palace with former First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and invited him to head VEB, the reports . Kremlin website Details "Thank you for your trust, we won't let you down," Shuvalov said in response to the president's proposal (quote from Interfax ) . Putin promised to support VEB, which, according to him, needs additional capitalization. The fact that Shuvalov could head VEB was reported by The Bell on Tuesday.

German Gref personally called businessman Gennady Timchenko and apologized for the report released by Sberbank CIB analysts, Timchenko himself told The Bell at a forum in St. Petersburg. Details According to him, Gref called the day before and assured the businessman that the analysts who wrote the report had already been fired. “Personally, I don’t care, I … don’t read this,” added billionaire Timchenko, whom President Vladimir Putin calls a friend.

The Buk anti-aircraft missile system, from which Boeing Malaysia Airlines was shot down in the Donetsk region in 2014, belonged to the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Russian Ministry of Defense, located in the Kursk region. This conclusion was reached by the International Investigation Group (IIT), based on photo and video materials.

The government is not going to change taxes over the next years of flattery, there will only be "some [their] adjustment," said First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. Details “For a six-year cycle, we will not change taxes. We are asked: “What will change?” There will certainly be some adjustment,” he said. Siluanov noted that the Russian economy needs investments to accelerate growth to 3% per year, and the state needs to create conditions for this.

VTB Group has sold an 11.8% stake in the Magnit network, VTB said in a statement. The buyer was Alexander Vinokurov's Marathon Group investment group (which also specializes in retail and transport infrastructure). Details The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, the cost of such a stake, based on the closing price of trading on the MICEX the day before, is 62.5 billion rubles (about $1.02 billion). The share of VTB after the transaction decreased to 17.2%.

Several top managers of UC Rusal have resigned, the company said in a statement. In particular, CEO Alexander Buriko and 7 members of the board of directors who represented the interests of Oleg Deripaska left their posts. In this way, the company is seeking the lifting of US sanctions. Details Buriko took charge of Rusal just three months ago. Now acting Evgeniy Nikitin, Director of the Aluminum Business, was appointed to replace the CEO of the company.

In the trade war with Europe and Asia, Donald Trump is ready to use the main weapons - the United States can introduce 25% of the fee for imports. This will deepen the US conflict with Europe, but it may force the EU to agree to new anti -Russian measures. On Wednesday at night in Moscow, the US Department of Trade announced the beginning of the investigation of automobile imports.