Oil prices fell more than 6% on Monday evening amid increasing investor skepticism about the state of the global economy. Read more . WTI crude fell to $42.68 a barrel for the first time since June 2017. Brent crude fell to $50.47 a barrel for the first time since August 2017. Since the beginning of October, oil has lost almost 40% of its value. Quote .

The American market goes on holidays in a knockdown - the main indices have been losing 2% or more for the fourth consecutive session, and the fall of the S & P 500 and Dow Jones since the beginning of December has reached 15%. Rumors that Trump is planning to fire Fed chief Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's failed attempts to calm the market have been a new source of investor concern. December 24, 2018 was the worst Christmas Eve in the history of the US stock market.

US President Donald Trump called the only problem of the American economy. As he tweeted , this is the Fed. Details . Trump said that this organization does not have a “sense of the market” and does not understand the need for trade wars, ensuring a strong dollar and a shutdown due to the wall on the border with Mexico. The president compared the Fed to a golfer who can't hit a ball. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1077231267559755776 Context.

The American market has gone for Christmas holidays with a fall of 15% since the beginning of December. Today, the next collapse was provoked by Finance Minister Stephen Mnuchin, who tried to calm the market The American market is spent on holidays in Knockdown - the main indexes are already losing the fourth session in a row for 2% or more, and the S&P 500 and Dow Jones fall has reached 15%.

“Yandex” surpassed “First” in terms of audience back in 2012, and since then the gap has only widened: last New Year’s Eve, 12 million people visited the search engine’s main page alone, and this is four times the audience of “Russia 1” and “ Channel One." And this year, Yandex will even offer a direct competitor to the show on federal television channels. Read more .

According to the Yandex.Traffic service, traffic jams reached a maximum of 10 points. According to the forecast of the service, the congestion of the streets will decrease to 5 points only by 10 pm. Details. High congestion is observed on the Third Transport and Garden Rings. Also, traffic is difficult on Tverskaya Street, Novy Arbat, Bolshaya Lubyanka, Bolshaya Yakimanka, Krymsky Val.

The Russians are tired of aggressive foreign policy and would like to come to power of new leaders who, in their qualities, are not like Vladimir Putin. Half of the citizens believe that in the next 5 years the situation in the country will only worsen, but are ready to invest in the construction of “ideal Russia” (for example, pay more taxes).

Top managers of the OneWeb project, which wants to cover the planet with high-speed Internet, have offered Russia to buy a minority stake in the project in exchange for frequencies in the country, Reuters writes , citing three Russian officials. the work of OneWeb in Russia Earlier, the FSB opposed . More.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev fired the head of Rosstat, Alexander Surinov, on Monday. More. The government order says that Surinov, who has been in charge of the service since 2009, is leaving the post of his own free will. the new head of the department Pavel Malkov, ex-director of the department of public administration of the Ministry of Economic Development, has been appointed . Maxim Oreshkin had long wanted to replace Surinov , a federal official told The Bell.

On Friday evening, investors had a new cause for concern. Bloomberg announced President Donald Trump's intention to fire Fed chief Jerome Powell, whom the president has repeatedly criticized for raising the key rate. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin hastened to calm the markets, reassuring investors that Trump had no such intention.

Google decided to pay the fine of Roskomnadzor, imposed on the Russian "daughter" of the company for refusing to connect to the register of banned sites, said . the press service More. A company representative said that the company would pay a fine of 500,000 rubles. However, he did not specify whether Google intends to eliminate the violations. Context.

Google did not appeal against the fine of Roskomnadzor, imposed earlier on the Russian "daughter" of the company for refusing to connect to the register of banned sites, the reported . company's press service More. The deadline for appealing the decision of Roskomnadzor expired on December 21. The company did not say whether they are going to pay a fine of 500 thousand rubles and in what time frame. Context. Roskomnadzor fined Google 500,000 rubles on December 11.

Sberbank was the first in Russia to launch insurance of bank cards against cyber risks, according to a press release from the bank. We are talking about debiting money due to hacking contactless payments from smartphones or infection of the gadget with malware. More. Possible cyber fraud is included in the company's updated insurance product, which also insures the card against theft, damage, etc.

Russian customs officers have begun to receive detailed information from their Chinese colleagues about parcels with risky goods passing through the border and are awaiting data on other goods, writes Vedomosti . Thus, the Federal Customs Service (FCS) will be able to charge additional duties on gray imports from China. More.

Trucks weighing more than 3.5 tons must be equipped with axle load sensors after 2023 to reduce road loads. Such a proposal within the framework of one of the national projects should be approved by the government today, Vedomosti writes , citing two federal officials. Read more. The sensors must be installed on new trucks by the manufacturer; it is not necessary to install them on old vehicles, a representative of Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov explained to the newspaper.