This has not yet happened in the history of the oil market: the futures for American oil WTI lost 300% in price and went minus by almost $ 40. An unprecedented collapse is explained by the coincidence of technical (the period of execution of the May futures expires on April 21) with fundamental causes - a record drop in demand and filling in American oil storage facilities. The price of Russian Urals oil in the evening also went minus.

American oil WTI collapsed by 300%, up to minus $ 35. What's happening? This has not yet happened in the history of the oil market: the futures for American oil WTI lost 300% in price and went minus by almost $ 40. An unprecedented collapse is explained by the coincidence of technical (the period of execution of the May futures expires on April 21) with fundamental causes - a record drop in demand and filling in American oil storage facilities.

The quotes of May futures on North American oil WTI by 21.00 Moscow time fell to zero on April 20 - more precisely, to $ 0.01 per barrel. Such indicators under the current conditions are technical. Nevertheless, such prices for the WTI barrel are noted for the first time in history - like the spread between the May and June oil. An unprecedented drop in oil is associated with the closure at midnight on April 21 of May futures on WTI.

For the sake of state support, system -forming companies will have to abandon dividends, growth of salaries and rewards to management, recognized RBC. According to the publication, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Ministry of Economic Development was not enough to select companies from the list. Therefore, the Ministry, represented by Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Mikhail Babich, sent additional requirements to the industry departments.

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In an open letter to Virgin Group employees, billionaire Richard Branson ($ 4.5 billion by Forbes) asked for financial support from the governments of Great Britain and Australia, as his personal funds were not enough. To save the airlines Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia, Branson counts on a commercial loan, and not on “free money”. The billionaire emphasized that his personal capital is not equal to liquid resources.

The self -isolation regime in Russia, most likely, will not end with the end of April - the Russian authorities are considering several extension options, RBC writes with reference to its sources. The main option is a non -working announcement on May 6, 7 and 8. Thus, self -isolation, taking into account the first and second May holidays, will last until May 12.

About $ 1200 checks of about 70 million Americans, falling under the criteria for distributing money in the United States, could linger for a couple of days for an unusual reason: they printed the name of President Donald Trump, writes The Washington Post. The publication was told about this publication. According to them, the name of the current president on treasury checks of this kind has never been printed. The US Treasury denies that changes will lead to delays.

Individual entrepreneurs who stopped work in March 2020 became more by 77.2% compared to March 2019, Interfax writes with reference to the FNS data. In absolute numbers, these are 66.8 thousand versus 37.7 thousand IPs, or about 2% of the registered in Russia. In January-February, the dynamics was slightly above zero-an increase of only 0.3%: 118.1 thousand entrepreneurs were stopped against 117.7 thousand.

Yandex will make free coronavirus at home for free for people of all ages. So far, only people over 65 could be tested for free. So far, residents of Moscow and the nearest Moscow region will be able to make a free test , then such an opportunity will also appear in people from the regions. Free testing is part of the social project of the company "Help nearby" . Analyzes made by partner laboratories are partially paid by Yandex money, partially-donations collected on the project website.

The Moscow City Court today reduced the defendant of the Moscow Case Konstantin Kotov the sentence from four years in a colony to 1.5 years. He was convicted in the fall of 2019 under the "Dadin" article 212.1 of the Criminal Code on repeated violation of the rules of rallies. In March, the Cassation Court sent Kotov for a new consideration, after President Vladimir Putin instructed him at the beginning of the year.

Automatic check of passes for the car will work in Moscow from Wednesday, April 22, the capital’s department of transport said . For those who use a personal car, when designing digital passes, it is necessary to bind the license plate of the vehicle. For travel in city public transport, it is required to be tied to the passage of the Card "Troika", "Strelka" or a social card. Without this, they will not work on the metro turnstile or the Validator of the bus.

The main news about the spread of coronavirus in Russia and in the world is April 20. In the world We give data from John Hopkins, which tracks the situation in real time. Infected: 2.41 million people (April 19 - 2.34 million, April 18 - 2.25 million). Recovered: 632 thousand (April 19 - 600 thousand, April 18 - 571 thousand). Died: 166 thousand (April 19 - 161 thousand, April 18 - 154 thousand). Russia remains in 10th place in the total number of infected.

Mikhail Zadornov, Chairman of the Board of Otkritie Bank, went through all the crises in recent Russian history as a manager. In 1990, Zadornov participated in writing the program of economic reforms "500 days", in 1998 he was the Minister of Finance. He met subsequent crises in the chair of the top manager of the largest state-owned banks.

The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) found that 77% of Russians are afraid to get the COVID-19 infection. In the capitals, the proportion of fearing coronavirus is slightly higher-82% in Moscow and 79% in St. Petersburg. 10% of respondents are not afraid either for themselves or for relatives. 86% of respondents say that they are quite aware of the situation with coronavirus in the world, transmission routes and methods of infection prevention.