The ruble has become the best currency investment in 2019, but by December it may collapse For the first 9 months of 2019, the ruble has become the best currency investment of the year in the world - since the beginning of the year, the Russian currency has gained 7.4%to the dollar.

The State Duma proposed to limit the exit from Russia to everyone who has access to state secrets, reports . Interfax Employees of the National Guard, employees of foreign intelligence, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have secret information, deputy Konstantin Zatulin said at a discussion of a draft law that prohibits FSB officers from leaving the country for 5 years after service. The parliamentarian believes that the ban should be extended to other departments.

Tochka Bank said it suffered from a data breach of 8.7 million Beeline home Internet users: fraudsters withdrew money from the accounts of 10 customers, The Bell was told in a financial institution. After that, Tochka customers received a notification about the need to change their password. “By a strange coincidence, all the victims had one telecom operator - Beeline. The password for entering the Internet bank coincided with the password for the Beeline personal account.

Rosstat will revise the indicators of the construction industry in order to increase GDP growth at the end of 2019. This forecast was made by VTB Capital analysts, and RBC read their report. Construction, according to Rosstat, from January to August grew by only 0–0.3% per month (year-on-year comparison). At the same time, the production of building materials increased by 5.8% over the same time, VTB analysts calculated.

New IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the fund expects the lowest growth since the start of the decade at the end of 2019. The IMF will lower its forecast for global GDP growth for 2019 and 2020. in the October World Economic Outlook. It will be published next week. In July, the IMF has already lowered its forecast for global GDP growth by 0.1 percentage points. in both 2019 and 2020 to 3.2% and 3.5%, respectively.

At the end of October, the Skolkovo School of Management will have a new rector. Marat Atnashev, who has held this position since 2016, will leave, four sources familiar with the situation at the business school told The Bell. It is not yet known who will take Atnashev's place: it is possible that the school will change its management principle altogether. Details.

For the rest of the year, the ruble will lose almost all the growth accumulated since its beginning: the growing dollar will erase all the achievements of emerging markets, writes Bloomberg, citing the currency strategist of Poland's largest bank Bank Polski, Yaroslav Kosaty. Kosatiy is known for being the most accurate predictor of the dynamics of the ruble over the past two quarters.

VTB stopped accepting deposits in euros, according to the website of the credit institution. Starting from October 8, only accumulative and savings accounts in European currency are available to customers. The bank will continue to fulfill obligations on already opened deposits in euro. In September, Sberbank, Avangard, Citibank, Alfa-Bank, Rosbank, Otkritie and Raiffeisenbank refused to deposit in euros, reminds RBC.

Former general director of Magnit Olga Naumova headed the logistics company Lorus SCM, owned by the founder of the Sollers automobile holding Vadim Shvetsov. Naumova will receive a share in the capital of LORUS, and will also manage Shvetsov’s other logistics assets. Naumova will also take the post of deputy general director of Sollers.

The ex-head of the FSB department of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Lieutenant-General Alexander Kalashnikov, became the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, according to the agency's website. The former head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Gennady Kornienko, resigned in October 2019 after serving in the position for seven years. Among his possible replacements was the ex-FSB officer Vadim Balanin, who joined the Federal Penitentiary Service in 2012.

Michael Calvey and other defendants in the Baring Vostok case have had their existing preventive measures extended for another 3 months. The investigation plans to complete the case by the end of the year and bring final charges against the defendants.

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star, as well as for "theoretical research in cosmology," the award tweeted . Three scientists will receive the award: Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for the exoplanet, James Peebles for cosmology. the evolution of the universe since the 1960s Princeton professor Peebles has been studying .

In the second quarter of 2019, the share of the ruble in the foreign assets of the Russian banking sector increased by 0.7 percentage points, to 13.4%, which is a record since the third quarter of 2014, RBC writes , citing Central Bank statistics. Foreign liabilities of Russian banks rose to 24.7%, which is the maximum for the entire period of statistics (since the beginning of 2002).

The growth of the legal taxi market will slow down from 8.6% in 2018 to 3.7-4% by 2020, and in 2019 it will reach 709 billion rubles, which is 5.6% higher than last year, writes RBC with reference to for a study by the Government Analytical Center. The volume of the gray segment of the market, on the contrary, will grow, experts predicted. At the end of 2019, it can reach 101 billion rubles, which is 6.3% more than a year earlier.

Finnish energy concern Fortum has finally reached an agreement with Elliott and Knight Vinke funds to buy a 20.5% stake in the German company Uniper for 2.3 billion euros, reported . Bloomberg After the transaction, Fortum will receive 70.5% in Uniper. The deal will be financed by the company's own funds and loans. In preliminary trading, Uniper's quotes fell 6%, Fortum rose 2%.