The American stock market set the long -awaited record - and this time Trump can fully attribute it to himself Donald Trump, Aras (right) and Emin Agalarov at the Miss Universe 2013 contest in Moscow. Photo: TASS On the American stock market today is the Day of Records. The S&P 500 Stock Index set the long -awaited record, for the first time in history, having overcome 2900 points, and the NASDAQ index - took 8000 a mark for the first time.

Former CEO of travel service Expedia Dara Khosrowshahi headed Uber exactly a year ago. His first task was to clean up the company's reputation for scandals after Travis Kalanick and show customers and regulators a new, more responsible Uber. With this, he seems to have coped, earning a slightly offensive nickname "Chief Apology Officer" ("chief apologetic director").

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested Alexei Navalny for 30 days under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the rules for holding an action). We are talking about the rallies "Strike of voters", which took place at the end of January. On September 9, the single day of the gubernatorial elections, the oppositionist announced protests against raising the retirement age.

The government is going to increase excise taxes on diesel fuel and gasoline from January 1, 2019, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak , promising that there would be no surge in prices. Analysts suggest that the increase in excise duties along with the increase in VAT may lead to accelerated inflation. Details From January 1, 2019, the government will increase excise taxes on diesel fuel by 2.7 thousand rubles. and gasoline - by 3.7 thousand rubles, said in an interview Kozak with RBC.

The Moscow City Hall is going to announce its own concessions for pensioners in September - the city is going to maintain the Moscow supplement to pensions “at the old retirement age” for the entire transition period of the reform. It will cost only 4 billion rubles a year. Details The average Moscow pension supplement is 5,500 rubles; maintaining these payments from 2020 will cost the Moscow budget about 4 billion rubles a year, Vedomosti writes.

This morning, came the first round of new US sanctions against Russia 20 kopecks against the dollar on this news into force - for the use of chemical weapons in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The ruble lost .

The Prosecutor General's Office saw no reason to review decisions on criminal cases against a number of businessmen from the "Titov's list", said the official representative of the department, Alexander Kurennoy. The department believes that not all of the escaped entrepreneurs were subjected to forceful pressure - and some are involved in cases that have nothing to do with business.

Elon Musk refused to buy Tesla from the exchange. What did this adventure cost? Ilon Mask had to abandon the record in the history of Tesla shares from the exchange - now only the disappointment and investigation of American exchange regulators remains from him. Even if the mask did not have such a goal, speculators could earn a fortune - over the 17 days of life, the company's shares first grew by 12%, and then fell by 16%. Musk announced the refusal of Tesla ransom on Friday.

As Venezuela plunges deeper into economic collapse, Russia is starting to have problems with the assets it has earned to keep the country afloat in recent years. On August 23, a Delaware court ordered the arrest of shares in the US oil refinery Citgo, 49.9% of which Rosneft received as collateral for loans from the Venezuelan state oil monopoly PDVSA. The Russian state-owned company may appeal the court's decision until August 30.