The collapse of oil prices threatens Russia not only with a loss of 3 trillion rubles of oil and gas revenues, but also with new sanctions by the United States Igor Sechin photo: Alexey Druzhinin/RIA "Novosti" What's happened?

The collapse in oil prices threatens Russia not only with the loss of 3 trillion rubles of oil and gas revenues, but also with new sanctions from the United States After yesterday's fall in the price of Brent below $ 25 per barrel, a third party may appear in the price war between Saudi Arabia and the United States - according to the WSJ , American oilmen turned to the Donald Trump administration for help, and now they are considering new sanctions against Russia.

The seller of furniture No. 1 in the IKEA world temporarily closes all its stores in the United States, the company's website says . Previously, shops were closed in a number of countries. The reason is the pandemic. In the USA, IKEA will close 50 stores. 18 thousand employees will provide paid leave. The online store will continue to deliver goods. “Unprecedented times require unprecedented measures.

The Fitch International Rating Agency reduced the forecast for the growth rate of the Russian economy in 2020: from 2% to 1%. About this writes RBC. “We expect a slowdown in growth in the first half of 2020, since a decrease in oil prices, the weakening of the ruble and the deteriorated demand for goods exported from Russia reduce the volume of investments,” the Fitch report said. The forecast for the average for 2020 oil price Brents Fitch analysts reduced from $ 62.5 to $ 40 per barrel.

On March 19, trading on the Moscow Exchange ended in growth: the Mosbirzhi index gained 7.72% per day and reached 2275.7 points, the RTS index - 8.46% (902.63 points). The dollar stopped at 79.75 rubles (-1.04 rubles), the euro-at 85.40 rubles (-2.92 rubles). Before the opening of the trading, the Central Bank announced that on March 19, he would begin the sale of foreign currency in the domestic market from the FNB funds received on the expense of payment of shares of Sberbank.

Yandex, Mail.ru Group, the RDI and the RSP create an alliance to combat coronavirus after a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, in which their representatives participated. This was reported by the government website. The alliance calls its main task to ensure "operational testing using the best available technologies." In April, it is planned to launch a pilot project in which Russian-Japanese express tests will be used, which give out the result in 30 minutes.

The European Commissioner in the domestic markets Thierry Briton called on streaming services, including resource -intensive ones as Netflix, to refuse to broadcast video content in HD resolution. Briton wrote that he talked about this with the founder of Netflix Red Hastings. "To defeat coronavirus, we sit at home and work remotely. Streaming is also important, but it downloads the infrastructure.

The Pandemia of Coronavirus worries 49% of Russians, the collapse of the ruble - only 24%, follows from the All -Russian survey of the Center for Strategic Development (CSR). The CSR conducted the All-Russian survey on March 16 and 17-as part of the study "Shocks of the beginning of 2020: socio-economic effects." More than 1.6 thousand respondents took part in it. Almost every second Russian (49%) is most concerned about the spread of coronavirus.

In all 85 regions of Russia, they introduced a regime of increased readiness due to the threat of coronavirus spread, TASS reports . The authorities of all subjects decided to introduce a regime of increased readiness, TASS reports with reference to orders signed by the authorities of all constituent entities. An increased readiness mode means that schools and universities throughout the country are transferred to remote education, all sports and other mass events have been canceled.

Sheremetyevo Airport announced the closure of international terminals E and with the transfer of all flights from them to terminals D and F. Dmitry Kaigorodov , Deputy General Director of the airport. Thus, out of six existing passenger terminals, only four will remain to work. The terminal F has long been used to receive citizens arriving from countries with a dysfunctional epidemiological situation (a special regime of sanitary control has been introduced there).

The main news about the spread of coronavirus in Russia and in the world and the new measures of the struggle against it - on March 19.

The number of cases of infection of coronavirus infection in Russia increased from 147 to 199 cases in one day, Rospotrebnadzor said. The virus has already spread by a quarter of the regions of Russia. Yesterday, the number of cases increased by 33 people, the day before - by 20. Of the 52 new cases of infection 12, it was recorded in Moscow. In 5 more cases, it was recorded in the Moscow and Sverdlovsk regions, 3 in the Tula region, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk Territory.

The price of Russian Urals brand oil at auction on March 18 fell down to an 18-year minimum-22% to $ 18.64 per barrel. The cost of Urals is steadily reduced against the background of the Saudi Aramco solution to sharply reduce contract prices for April parties, writes Argus Media.

The dollar exchange rate on Trading on Thursday, March 19, by 14.40 Moscow time, again exceeded 81 rubles, but not by peaks, as at the opening of trading, but after sustainable growth. The euro by the same time has briefly exceeded the level of 87 rubles. By this time, the Brent oil quotes had $ 26, the Mosbirzhi index grew by 3.5%, the dollar RTS - by 2.1%.

The dollar exchange rate on Trading on Thursday, March 19, by 14.40 Moscow time, again exceeded 81 rubles, but not by peaks, as at the opening of trading, but after sustainable growth. The euro by the same time has briefly exceeded the level of 87 rubles. By this time, the Brent oil quotes had $ 26, the Mosbirzhi index grew by 3.5%, the dollar RTS - by 2.1%.