The news of a 20% drop in demand in China sent oil below $55. OPEC+ urgently meets to stop the growing fall in prices You can argue about the consequences of the coronavirus outbreak for a long time, but today the result is on the scoreboard: oil lost almost $ 2 in a day and fell below $ 55 on the news that the epidemic reduced demand in China by 20%.

The news of a 20% drop in demand in China sent oil below $55. OPEC+ urgently meets to stop the growing fall in prices You can argue about the consequences of the coronavirus outbreak for a long time, but today the result is on the scoreboard: oil lost almost $ 2 in a day and fell below $ 55 on the news that the epidemic reduced demand in China by 20%.

The cost of the April futures for Brent oil on the ICE London Exchange for the first time in a year of more fell below $ 55, CNBC writes . WTI oil fell shortly lower than $ 50. Over two weeks, oil quotes fell by $ 10, and this is the largest demand crisis since 2008. The market continues to respond only to news about the spread of coronavirus in China: the almost complete cessation of supplies from Libya did not affect the quotes.

Investbank Citigroup fired one of his most promising traders for stealing food in a corporate dining room, writes Financial Times. The 31-year-old Paras Shah left the post of head of the trading direction of high-profit bonds in the EMEA region a month ago. The connection of dismissal with theft of food for the newspaper confirmed four sources in the bank. The background of the incident is not clear.

The epidemic of the New Coronavirus changed the approach of the scientific community to publish research, writes Wired. Instead of habitually carrying an article to a reviewed scientific journal (and take risks that the study is outdated before publication), scientists quickly make them in public preprints. They had to experience the worst aspects of the Internet communities: unskilled interpretations, panicirism and conspiracyology.

The coronavirus epidemic led to a reduction in oil consumption in China by 3 million barrels, or 20% per day, writes Bloomberg. This can lead to a drop in oil prices up to $ 47. What's happened Due to coronavirus, millions of Chinese did not go to work, most international flights were canceled.

At the end of last year, a detective history of the theft of 5 million rubles from the account of the entrepreneur at Tinkoff Bank was widely discussed in social networks. Unraveling it, we figured out how a popular naked scheme is arranged, with which you can steal money from almost any bank. And in the end, a whole special project “Cash Country” has grown from this story - in it, The Bell tells how it works now, who pays for it and who earns it.

Rosstat published a preliminary assessment of the growth of the Russian economy for 2019: according to the agency, GDP grew by 1.3%, as predicted by the Ministry of Economic Development. Initially, the Ministry of Economic Development, which is subordinate to Rosstat, predicted GDP growth by 1.3%, but in January increased the forecast to 1.4%.

For what hooks will Europe and Great Britain cling to each other after Brexit, why are the director of the largest companies at all, and their age is now on average 60 years and whether it is true that politicians are twisting economists as they want - about what economists write about social networks, says the Econs.online portal. Boris Johnson and Isaac Levido. Photo: Zuma/TASS Brexit: this is not the end “This is not the end.

The Magnit retailer refused to purchase Chinese vegetables and fruits: this is due to the threat of coronavirus spread and the complication of logistics message with China. In order to completely replace the products from China, Magnit has begun to import these goods from other countries - Morocco, Israel, Turkey since the beginning of the year, and also increased the purchases of Russian vegetables, the company said.

The EU and the UK outlined the positions of trade negotiations after the formal Brexit on January 31. The performance of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Boris Johnson, does not promise rapid progress and has already brought down pound sterling to the dollar by 1%. Meanwhile, industrial production in the country grew until the April level: the weakening of uncertainty gave an impetus to the economy, writes Bloomberg.

The Russian market owes half of its record growth to only three companies, Gazprom, Sberbank and Lukoil - they gave 56% of the market growth, Sberbank calculated, whose data was familiarized with RBC. The first ten issuers, which also include Norkel, Yandex, Novatek, Tatneft, MTS and Rosneft, accounted for 84% of the total annual growth of the RTS index.

Social amendments to President Vladimir Putin are supported by more than 90% of citizens to the Constitution, follows from the VTsIOM survey. The least citizens support amendments that reduce the presidential powers, writes RBC. Most of all citizens like the mandatory regular indexation of pensions, benefits and other social payments (91%), about the same (90%) - set the minimum wage at least the subsistence level.

By 12:00 Moscow time Monday, the ruble fell to the dollar for 14 kopecks and overcame the mark of 64 rubles/$. Experts say that now market participants are waiting for new signals to determine the direction of movement, in the center of their attention there remains a flash of coronavirus in China. Since the beginning of the year, the ruble fell into 3 rubles to the dollar, having lost 6.5%in price. The last time it cost cheaper than 64 rubles/$ in early December 2019.

The Prosecutor General’s Office will create a special resource for collecting citizens about cyber abdominalism in the financial environment, Kommersant writes . This should give the victims of scammers the opportunity to complain about them faster than to write a statement to the police.