The S&P 500, whose fall in March erased the gains of the past three years, is ending a challenging 2020 at a new all-time high after Donald Trump approved a new $900 billion stimulus package for the US economy. Investors who did not panic and bet on market growth - including sectors that are quite predictable in a pandemic.

At the end of the year, the S&P 500 index set the next record. What did investors work most this year? The S&P 500 index, the fall of which in March, is the growth of the last three years, ends the most complicated 2020 at the new historical maximum after Donald Trump approved the new package of incentives for the US economy by $ 900 billion. Investors who did not succumb to panic and put on the growth of the market - including quite predictable in pandemia sectors.

The Federal Penitentiary Service, through a lawyer , conveyed to Alexei Navalny that his suspended sentence in the old Yves Rocher case would turn into a real one if the politician did not appear at the branch of the department tomorrow at 9 am. The Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Moscow warned that it would go to court with a request to replace the policy of Alexei Navalny with a suspended sentence in the old Yves Rocher case with a real one.

Mortality from coronavirus in Russia in November, according to Rosstat , was higher than in October. So, set a new record. Coronavirus in November became the main cause of death of 19,626 people (in October - 11,630). It is assumed the main cause of death, but requires additional research - 3984 (2266). Had a "significant effect on the development of fatal complications" 2178 people (1711).

Sber will become the developer of a new digital platform for public services, the state bank said . At least nominally, VTB, Rostelecom and Russian Post claimed it. Sber received the right to develop the Gostekh platform at an open auction of the Ministry of Digital Development. Sberbank’s own technologies in the form of the Platform V cloud platform will form the basis.

Russia has extended the ban on air traffic with the UK for two weeks - thus, it will apply to the entire New Year holidays. The fact that air traffic with the UK was stopped until January 12, inclusive, was announced by the operational headquarters for combating the spread of coronavirus.

The Ministry of Justice for the first time placed foreign agents - individuals in the media register. This is a consequence of a law passed last year. The new list of the Ministry of Justice includes 12 media outlets and five people: human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, journalists from Radio Liberty Lyudmila Savitskaya and Sergey Markelov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Pskovskaya Guberniya Denis Kamalyagin, and feminist activist from the art group Rodina Daria Apakhonchich.

The first large export shipment of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V of 300,000 doses, delivered to Argentina, consists of only the first dose, Reuters writes , citing sources. According to the agency, the difficulties with the production of second doses have not yet been overcome. Unlike most coronavirus vaccines, the second dose of Sputnik V has a different composition.

The biggest losses in 2020 were suffered by funds with commodity, and especially oil and gas assets in their portfolios. Betting on risk and specialization paid off, Reuters writes based on statistics from the American information and analytical company Morningstar. The most profitable mutual fund of the year (by December 9) was the Grayscale Ethereum Trust, which invested in the world's second cryptocurrency - ethereum (+ 333.7%).

Most people want to finish and forget 2020 as soon as possible. Was there something really good in him? We asked this question to the financier Andrei Movchan - and unexpectedly he found enough positive. Remote The pandemic forced us to go a ten -year path in terms of communication methods. It is impossible to imagine that the other things equal in calm conditions, we could conduct an experiment on remote work on a planetary scale.

The head of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, spoke about her personal experience of communicating with telephone scammers on the air of RTVI and advised to hang up immediately with such calls. “They [scammers] had bots that said in such a metallic, mechanical voice that “if you didn’t transfer money to such and such a card, press such and such a button,” Nabiullina shared. “It looks like this quite ...

The Constitutional Court (CC) recognized as legal the restriction of movement during a pandemic. But the courts are obliged to take into account all valid reasons for which citizens could leave the house, not limited to the list of authorities. A resident of the Moscow region tried to challenge the legality of the decree of the governor of the region Andrei Vorobyov on self-isolation.

In December, the Russians were less afraid of contracting the coronavirus than in October, and they completely decided on their attitude to vaccination with a domestic vaccine, follows from a survey by the Levada Center. Most do not want to voluntarily get vaccinated with Sputnik V, even for free.

U.S. and European oil and gas companies wrote off $145 billion in assets in the first three quarters of 2020 due to an unprecedented decline in oil prices, writes The Wall Street Journal. This was the largest three-quarter adjustment in at least a decade, and the entire 2020 promises to be one of the worst in history for the industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a massive wave of asset writedowns in Western economies in recent years.

Before the New Year, scammers came up with a new tactic - under the guise of bank managers, they talk about profitable offers, and the victims themselves transfer the login and password from their personal account in the bank. about the "New Year's" scheme of stealing money from accounts .