For the first time in history, gold rose to $ 2000 per ounce. And this is far from the end It was clear that this day was close, and it finally came - the spare price for gold for the first time in history officially exceeded $ 2000 per ounce. Analysts have no doubt that the price of prices is not over: not all trillions of dollars that are in the usual situation are invested in the gold in the US government.

The day after the catastrophic explosion in the Lebanese capital, the true scale of what had happened became clear. The country, which has been in a severe crisis for many years, is threatened with the prospect of turning into a failed state. Causes The only version of what happened on August 4 remained.

The UK Home Office has abandoned a non-transparent algorithm used to process visa applications after the system was accused of bias and racism, writes the Financial Times. What's happened? The UK Home Office has announced that it will stop using the visa algorithm introduced in 2015. This will take place shortly before litigation begins in a lawsuit filed by the Council for Immigrants (JCWI) and Foxglove Digital Human Rights Council.

Last Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg argued to congressmen that Facebook is not copying competitors' products to kill their business. Less than a week later, Facebook-owned Instagram announced the launch of Reels, a 15-second video service in 50 countries, very similar in functionality to the Chinese application TikTok, which Donald Trump threatens to ban in the United States. owned by ByteDance. While editing video in Reels, you can adjust the speed, add music and add effects.

RBC media holding will almost completely switch to remote work, learned . Open Media Several employees told the resource that RBC is switching to remote work. Only the television division will remain in the office, the rest of the employees will be required to appear physically only at planning meetings several times a week.

Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messenger , believes that the demand to sell the Chinese video application TikTok equates the US with authoritarian regimes and undermines the foundations of the Internet as a global network. Durov understands, although he does not approve of, the US position (selling TikTok to an American company or banning it). “After all, China has banned almost all non-Chinese social apps on its territory.

Only another entrepreneur can understand the entrepreneur, so they like to unite in closed communities. We learned from the creators of three such business clubs as they are arranged. The heroes of this text are not familiar with each other, but they have something in common-everyone seeks to gather around them the only-minded entrepreneurs. Anatoly Maryin is a former military man.

The family of Dagestan Senator Suleiman Kerimov, who is engaged in gold mining, took first place in the Russian Forbes Real-Time rating for the first time, ahead of Norilsk Nickel CEO Vladimir Potanin. Now their fortune has reached $ 24.7 billion. Family members own 78.2% of Polyus, almost all of this share belongs to the son of the senator Said Kerimov. This jump in earnings is due to the rise in gold prices since the start of the pandemic.

The Russian Ministry of Finance has proposed to the Netherlands, as well as to Cyprus, to abandon preferential tax rates on dividends and raise the rate to 15%, KPMG said. If the country does not respond to the demand, Russia may break the tax agreement with it. The KPMG auditor said that the Dutch government received a "letter of happiness" from the Russian authorities.

VTB Bank may reduce the amount of dividends five times: from the planned 50% to 10% of net profit under IFRS for 2019, according to a government decree . Quotes of the bank's shares on this news fell by more than 5%, according to the data of the Moscow Exchange . The bank's profit for the past year amounted to about 200 billion rubles. The government's order means that instead of 100.6 billion rubles, shareholders can receive only 20.12 billion rubles in dividends.

The threshold of $ 2,000 per ounce today overcame spot gold quotes. Futures for the main precious metal crossed it last week. Gold with immediate delivery costs more than $2,000 for the first time in history: the peak was fixed at $2,040 per ounce by 13.30 Moscow time.

Quotes of Brent oil today exceeded $45 per barrel. The last time this level was observed was on March 6, the day the previous OPEC+ deal collapsed. By 12:00 Moscow time on August 5, Brent quotes remained slightly above $45 per barrel. September futures for WTI oil cost more than $42 per barrel. The growth takes place despite the increase in OPEC+ quotas since August 1 (we wrote about this in detail here ).

Gazprom may not fulfill a promise to pay shareholders at least 40% of net profit, Kommersant writes. The reason is the growth of the company's debt load: the company's net debt may exceed 2.5 EBITDA, and in this case, Gazprom can reduce dividends below the lower border. According to Gazprom, approved in 2019, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Finance, the company was supposed to gradually reach the payment of at least 50% of dividends from adjusted net profit in IFRS.

VTB Deputy Chairman Anatoly Pechatnikov said that due to low rates, deposits may no longer be considered a means of accumulation, as it was in the 90s. According to him, soon "people will look for an alternative to deposit forms of savings." “Given that the inflation forecast is 4%, the key (rate.

The main world theme this morning is catastrophic explosions in the port of Lebanese Beirut Due to the powerful explosions in Livansky Beirut, 78 people died, but the figure is not final-many are considered missing, and about 4 thousand people were injured. The authorities established the source of the explosion - tons of ammonium nitrate, which was supposedly stored in a warehouse in the port for six years.