The US and UK are negotiating new, tougher sanctions against Russia, including personal sanctions against oligarchs and expanding restrictions on Russian public debt, writes Bloomberg. The ruble fell sharply on Forex on this news. The UK will discuss new anti-Russian sanctions with European allies, primarily Germany and France, in the coming weeks. At the same time, Britain is discussing concerted action with the United States.

Investors evaluate the Fix Price network more expensive than Magnit. We tell her story The FIX Price network, which has existed for 13 years, but this year, thanks to its IPO in London, has become the main sensation of the Russian retail market, today closes the book of accommodation applications. According to unofficial data, investors estimated the network along the upper border of the range-at $ 8.3 billion.

The OPEC+ cartel decided to maintain the current hard limit on oil production in April at 0.5 million barrels per day, learned Bloomberg . On the news of this, Brent rose above $67. According to the newspaper, the cartel discussed whether to restore production by 1.5 million barrels per day.

Sberbank owes the profitability of its non-financial services to Yandex’s “farewell gift,” writes VTimes: the bank included the money received for the sale of Yandex.Market in its reporting.

Private investors already account for almost half of the volume of trading in shares on the stock market in Russia, the Central Bank reported . If in 2019 retail investors accounted for 34% of share trading on the Russian stock market, then in 2020 - already 47%, the Central Bank said in its "Overview of Key Indicators of Professional Participants in the Securities Market".

Alexander Mamut made most of the condition in mediation in complex corporate conflicts, but the businessman always drawn to the media business with whom he ended up with. Last year, Mamut was forced to sell Rambler Sberbank to get out of debts. Medusa tells how the billionaire was engaged in media and what went wrong. Retelling the main thing briefly.

The Russian car market rose marginally by 0.8% yoy, or by 1,008 vehicles, to 120,081 in February, the said AEB Automobile Manufacturers Committee . So far, sales are going through 2020 in the face of a shortage of popular models, notes . Kommersant In the top 10 brands, sales of only three increased: AvtoVAZ, Skoda and Mazda. In terms of models (more than 5 thousand cars per month), sales of Lada Granta, Kia Rio, Lada Granta, Hyundai Creta and Solaris increased.

Yegor Goloshov made a career as a top manager in an international microfinance company, but against the backdrop of a pandemic, he rethought his path: he quit, moved to Sochi, dyed his hair into blue and opened his own business-massage. To attract customers, Goloshov decided to work for the first week for free (completely). What came of it, the entrepreneur tells in the column for The Bell.

The construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been postponed for another six months, until September 2021. Until now, laying was going to be completed before the end of April. The construction of Nord Stream 2 is currently being carried out in the waters of Denmark by the pipe-laying barge Fortuna.

Sberbank for the first time disclosed revenue from non-financial services of its ecosystem: in 2020 it amounted to 71.4 billion rubles. Over the year, the income of this part of the Sberbank business has almost tripled. Sberbank has published IFRS financials for its non-financial sector for the first time. Over the year, revenue from it increased by 2.7 times (in 2019 it amounted to 26.4 billion rubles).

Mail.Ru Group reported on revenue growth and outstripping development of the gaming segment in 2020. The total segment revenue of Mail.Ru Group at the end of 2020 grew by 21.2%, to 107 billion rubles, which even exceeds the forecast made at the beginning of 2020 (103-105 billion rubles). But the total net profit for the year fell by a third, to 10 billion rubles. Quotes of the company's receipts on the Moscow Exchange fell by 1.2% while the index fell by 1%.

In mid -February, Texas, the main oil -bearing province of the United States, was struck by the largest energy crisis in decades. The mass failure in power supply lasted at least 5 days and left without heating and electricity, according to various estimates, from three to five million Texas. The local disaster led to a jump in oil prices, and also gave the skeptics to say that all the fault is alternative energy.

The Russian authorities are studying the possibility of introducing a new tax for global IT companies. They want to charge an additional fee from those who use the data of Russians to form an advertising policy, Vedomosti reports, citing sources. The collected funds will be used to support the Russian IT industry - it is no longer possible to expand benefits for it at the expense of budgetary funds. We can say that we are talking about a new "tax on Google".

The limited number of foreign countries and flights available to Russians has caused a sharp increase in the cost of flights, writes Kommersant . The excess price is likely to continue until the full resumption of air traffic between countries - airlines do not intend to operate at a loss.

The government is discussing tax for foreign IT companies for analyzing the behavior of Russians in the network The Russian authorities are studying the possibility of introducing a new tax for global IT companies. They want to charge an additional fee with those who use the data of Russians to form an advertising policy, reports Vedomosti with reference to sources.