Unrestrained growth of technohigans: Tesla and Apple shares have taken off after companies increased their availability for private investors Technological companies continue to check whether the growth of their shares can be unlimited, and so far each time they receive new confirmations. The next of them is the current crushing of the Apple and Tesla papers, on which almost 5% and 10%, respectively, added to companies by 21:00 Moscow time.

After a number of employees left Belteleradiocompany, teams of Russian journalists came to replace them, mainly from RT, RBC reports citing sources. The Russian TV channel also shares its stories and video materials with the Belarusian one. The largest media holding in Belarus Belteleradiocompany (BT) includes seven TV channels: Belarus 1, Belarus 2, Belarus 3, Belarus 4, Belarus 5, Belarus 24 and NTV Belarus.

Warren Buffett's investment firm Berkshire Hathaway has invested more than $6 billion in Japan's five largest trading houses, according to the Financial Times. It's an unusual move for Buffett, who has invested mostly inside the US. The investor bought shares in Japanese companies during an unprecedented outflow of foreign investment from Japan ($132 billion over the past 32 months).

Amazon's already rising quotes rose 2% on Monday to a new record after the US FAA allowed the company to expand testing of drone parcel delivery, assigning it the status of an air carrier. The permit does not mean the immediate mass delivery of goods to the addressee by air, but allows you to start providing this service on a commercial basis. Earlier, UPS and Wing from Alphabet received the same permission. The first commercial drone deliveries will obviously be in the US.

Even the direct physical damage from the saltpeter explosion in Beirut on August 4 is such that its elimination requires international assistance and investment, Bloomberg writes , citing the World Bank (WB) calculations. According to the WB, the direct physical damage to the Lebanese capital reaches $3.8-4.6 billion. Another $2.9 to $3.6 billion was caused by the disruption of economic activity caused by the explosion.

The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic won the parliamentary elections, but by a margin that did not give it a majority. This opens up the possibility of a conditionally pro-Russian parliamentary coalition in a country closely linked to Russia.

At the opening of trading on August 31, shares of Apple and Tesla rose in price due to their split. On the news of today's split, Apple jumped 2.5% at the open, while Tesla jumped 1.3%. Apple split at a rate of four to one, and Tesla - five to one. So papers have become more accessible to retail investors. At the opening of trading on August 31, the price per share of Apple was $127.92. The cost of Tesla is $448.94 apiece.

We present another selection of the best articles from the blogs of economists, compiled by our friends from the ECONS publication. “Do you want collective immunity? Pay people for vaccination " Since, according to experts, collective immunity is achieved when 60% of the population is stable to the virus, and the acceptable vaccine efficiency is 75%, this means that 80% of the population should take vaccination.

The amount of carbon dioxide emitted in the Arctic zone in eight months of this year is already 35% higher than in the whole of last year, reports The Guardian, citing the atmospheric monitoring service Copernicus. The reason is forest fires, mainly in Eastern Siberia. By August 24, 245 megatons of carbon dioxide had been released into the Arctic atmosphere, 205 of them from June 1 to July 31. For the whole of last year, this figure amounted to 181 megatons.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko opposed a return to the 1994 constitution - a new basic document will be developed anew. The 1994 constitution forbade being president for more than two terms, and the opposition advocated a return to it.

Latvia has officially recognized the current head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other high-ranking officials of the country as persona non grata: they are banned from entering the country for an indefinite period. The example of the country was followed by two other Baltic countries - Lithuania and Estonia (so far limited to a five-year ban).

For the first time, an El-Al Israeli airliner took off from Ben Gurion Airport in Abu Dhabi via Saudi Arabian airspace. The direct flight was the first in history since Israel and the UAE agreed to normalize political relations. On August 13, Israel and the UAE agreed to fully normalize bilateral relations in a deal brokered by US President Donald Trump.

The Presidential Assistant for Economic Affairs Maxim Oreshkin said that the Russian economy after the pandemic should be restored independently, without new business dominance measures. Oreshkin said this at the Youth Forum "Territory of meanings", answering the question of a forum participant, whether it is planned to introduce new support measures for the injured industries in the fall and winter.

The net loss of the Aeroflot group (includes the carrier of the same name, Pobeda, Aurora, Rossiya) for the first half of 2020 amounted to 58.2 billion rubles, revenue fell by 52%, the reported . company The company published IFRS statements for the first six months of 2020 on its website.

The company "AliExpress Russia", which was engaged only in the delivery of goods from the Chinese marketplace, is also starting to deliver food. Together with the Russian service "Samokat", she launches the project of express delivery of food and consumer goods "Yes!". The new service promises to deliver groceries in 15-30 minutes, which is done, for example, by Yandex.Lavka.