Apple Corporation on October 30 in New York held a presentation of new products. Despite the fact that they did not concern the key telephone business, the importance of this release is difficult to overestimate: against the background of the weakening of markets, it should support the company's quotes with more than trillion dollars two days before the publication of the quarterly report. But it turned out not very convincing: the company expected much more clarity and confidence in the future.

As The Bell found out, the partner of financier Boris Jordan in the company Curaleaf, which produces marijuana in the United States, turned out to be the former head of Sibneft and junior partner of Roman Abramovich, Andrei Blokh. Yesterday, investors valued their business at $4 billion, and the company itself raised about $400 million - all this, despite the semi-legal status of this business in the United States.

The exposure of “Petrov and Boshirov” led to an unexpected side effect. A special operation by the FSB to find the source of data leaks about agents could paralyze the work of data sellers from closed databases, which are actively used by the security services of Russian companies to check their employees and contractors.

Due to the investigation of the leakage of data on Petrov and Boshirov, the receipt of data from closed databases has become more complicated. This is one of the main tools for security services of Russian companies The exposure of Petrov and Boshirov had an unexpected side effect.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway suddenly became a fintech investor - the company has invested about $600 million in payment systems operating in emerging markets, the WSJ found out . The deals violate two important rules of Buffett at once - do not invest in technology companies (with rare exceptions, such as Apple) and never buy shares at the IPO stage. Perhaps it's because the 88-year-old Buffett is trusting more and more decisions in the company to young managers.

Angela Merkel is leaving politics - she will leave the post of head of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) party and will not run for a new term as chancellor in 2021. Theoretically, Merkel could remain as chancellor until 2021, but she could leave the post earlier - in December, after new elections for the head of the CDU.

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that will remove the possibility of obtaining US citizenship for children of foreign citizens born in the United States, learned Axios . Tens of thousands of children of foreigners who specially come to the United States to give birth receive American citizenship in this way, and the Russians are one of the leaders here. Details Now the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the country.

For the first time in its history, STS Media sold licenses to Europe for licensed goods under its own brand - books, magazines and albums with characters from the Three Cats cartoon, Vedomosti . writes The buyer, the Danish publishing house Egmont, expects to repeat the international success of the Russian cartoon "Masha and the Bear", under the brand of which goods were sold for $300 million a year, experts say.

Products of products and drinks complain about the growth of environmental collection and promise a rise in price Food and drinks have a new reason for the rise in price in 2019-their manufacturers protest against a sharp increase in environmental fees and promise an additional increase in prices by 1%because of it.

Food and beverage producers are protesting against a sharp increase in environmental tax rates starting in 2019, Kommersant has learned . The increase will lead to an increase in consumer prices of at least 1%, they warn.

Nokia was the largest recipient of funds allegedly linked to the criminal money laundering scheme through Nordea Bank, according to financier William Browder. According to him, this money is related to a laundering scheme through the Danish Danske Bank.