The Christmas holidays, due to which all the world's largest exchanges are closed today, gave falling markets a short respite and gave traders the opportunity to consider further tactics. Investment banks, meanwhile, are urgently changing their oil price forecasts for 2019. However, if oil continues to fall in price at the same pace as yesterday (a barrel of Brent fell by 6.22% during the day, to almost $50), the forecasts may have to be revised again.

The collapse in the oil market was interrupted by the Christmas holidays, but trading on Monday ended with a drop in the price of Brent immediately by 6.2% to $50.47 per barrel. Since the beginning of October, oil has already fallen in price by 40%. Forecasts for the next year have been reduced by 13 largest investment banks. The ruble is still supported by the ongoing tax period and the pre-holiday lull in the market.

Oil fell to almost $ 50, and investment banks revise forecasts for 2019. The new forecast for Russia is still satisfied The Christmas holidays, because of which all the largest world exchanges do not work today, gave the falling markets a short respite, and traders-the opportunity to think about further tactics. Investments, meanwhile, urgently change the forecasts of oil prices for 2019.

Russian private company S7 Space, part of the S7 Group, has proposed creating an orbital cosmodrome, the company said in a Facebook post . S7 also published a video with a concept for a program that would launch rockets, deliver cargo to the cosmodrome, and send it to Mars.

During the governor's elections in Vladivostok, more than half the Coiba-2010 sites equipped with electronic urns, mass falsifications were recorded in favor of the victorious Oleg Kozhemyako, says the Voice movement in a special report after voting in Primorye. The movement required the abolition of the results of the elections. Read more.

The story with Alexei Ulyukaev did not force the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin to abandon his habits: this year he again congratulates officials with baskets with sausage , told The Bell several federal officials who received such a gift. Read more. Baskets with sausages and pastees “from Ivanovich” were delivered today to several federal officials. Also in the basket of tangerines and wine.

President Donald Trump continues to look for the culprit in the collapse in the US stock market. The day before, the president called the Fed the only problem for the American economy, thus intensifying the sell-off due to rumors about the planned resignation of the head of the department, Jerome Powell. Now the president's anger may also touch Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who not only failed to reassure, but even more frightened investors with his latest statements and actions.

Channel One and its contractors (primarily the Red Square group of Arkady Rotenberg) owe more than 1 billion rubles to the Ostankino television center, writes Kommersant , citing two sources. The television center filed two lawsuits against the channel for 74 and 89.5 million rubles, they were registered by the Moscow Arbitration Court at the end of December. More.

In an interview with Vedomosti, Mikhail Zadornov, Chairman of the Board of FC Otkritie, told what happened over the year to the former owners of the so-called " Moscow Ring" banks that fell under the Central Bank's reorganization in 2017. We are talking about FC Otkritie and Binbank, which are being merged into one bank, and Promsvyazbank, which has been transformed into a special bank for working with the Russian defense industry.

Russian companies are facing delays in international settlements in dollars, as banks in almost all countries consult the OFAC sanctions division of the US Treasury before a deal, said Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov . According to him, now about a third of payments are delayed for up to one month. In this regard, large Russian companies have already begun testing mechanisms for concluding transactions abroad without settlement in dollars.

A criminal case for dubious transactions with O1 Group structures Boris Mintz has been instituted against the ex-heads of the Otkritie bank. Opening Office Opening. Photo: Wikipedia A year after the collapse of the FC Opening bank, a criminal case has been instituted on its ex-heads. The surnames and articles of the Criminal Code are still unknown.

A year after the announcement of the reorganization of the bank FC Otkritie, a criminal case was opened against its ex-managers, Mikhail Zadornov, chairman of the board of the bank, told Vedomosti.

In November, Russians took out a record volume of mortgage loans - 300 billion rubles, it follows from the assessment of the state corporation Dom.RF and the consulting company Frank RG, which RBC refers to. Experts believe that banks may issue even more mortgages in December - the expected increase in rates will force Russians to rush to resolve the housing issue. Read more.