Magnit's shares lost more than 2% after the news about the refusal to pay dividends to the company of the same name - the manufacturer of magnets. Prior to this, the retailer's quotes were growing against the backdrop of news about the purchase of Dixy. The Novocherkassk company Magnit, engaged in the manufacture of magnets and casting of light metals, previously announced the refusal to pay dividends for 2020.

In the Russian retail market - a deal of the year: Magnit buys one of the oldest and largest networks of Dixie for 92.4 billion rubles and makes an application for catching up with the rival leader of the X5 Retail Group. After the 2020 retail IPO series, investors are ready to invest money in the retail business, and market consolidation will continue, analysts say.

“Magnit” buys “Dixie”: the main thing about the second largest transaction in the history of Russian grocery retail In the Russian retail market - a deal of the year: Magnit buys one of the oldest and largest networks of Dixie for 92.4 billion rubles and makes an application for catching up with the rival leader of the X5 Retail Group. After the 2020 retail IPO series, investors are ready to invest money in the retail business, and market consolidation will continue, analysts say.

Due to the unwillingness to spoil relations with Germany, the US authorities will waive sanctions against the operator of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Axios reports , citing sources. According to sources, the Biden administration came to the conclusion that the only way to stop the construction of Nord Stream 2, which is already 95% completed, is to impose sanctions on German gas recipients, but to break off relations with Germany because of the Biden pipeline. not ready.

Sberbank, VEB.RF and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) will each receive a 25% stake in Enlightenment OJSC, the reports bank's press service . For this transaction, 100% of the shares of the publishing house were valued at about 108 billion rubles. In the message of Sberbank, the deal is called "a continuation of many years of joint work aimed at combining efforts in the development of modern Russian education." The new shareholder structure is to be formed in June.

More than half (55%) of all single-use plastic in the world comes from 20 companies, according to a joint report by the Minderoo Foundation with partner organizations. Those responsible for fueling the climate crisis and environmental catastrophe include both public and multinational corporations. The top 20 companies producing single-use plastic packaging were headed by the American oil giant ExxonMobil, retells The Guardian the results of the study.

The first unicorn with investments from Rosnano - the manufacturer of graphene nanotubes OCSiAl - is going to the exchange, The Bell found out. The company plans to raise a new round of investments at a valuation of $2 billion to pay off its loans and then go public through a deal with SPAC. At this point, OCSiAl's business should already be worth about $3.5 billion, the company calculates.

To achieve zero net emissions (hydrocarbon neutrality) by 2050 and at least hope to overcome global warming, energy companies must stop exploration and investment in new oil and gas projects this year, the Financial Times quotes a new IEA report. In addition to stopping all new projects, $5 trillion in investment in low-carbon technologies by 2030 (currently $2 trillion) is needed. At the same time, they will provide 0.4 p.p.

Rospotrebnadzor sealed the Central Children's Store (TsDM) on Lubyanka after a fan meeting with the actors and creators of the film Major Grom: The Plague Doctor. The event was scheduled for May 16th. A temporary ban on activities was applied “under Part 2 of Art.

Russian Internet retailer Ozon has released unaudited financials for the first quarter. It more than doubled its turnover year-on-year, with an upgraded forecast for full-year 2021 turnover growth, but quarterly EBITDA remained negative. Turnover from sales (GMV), including services, grew by 135% in annual terms, to 74.2 billion rubles, the number of orders in the quarter increased by 161%, to 34.1 million.

The company "Rusinvest" of Anatoly Yablonsky, deputy chairman of the board of directors of Avangard Bank, won the auction for the sale of the largest independent oil refinery in Russia - Antipinsky in the Tyumen region. The company has been declared bankrupt since 2019. In addition to Rusinvest, an application for participation in the auction, which was repeatedly postponed on the complaint of Promsvyazbank, one of the creditors of the plant, was submitted by Sberbank itself.

Major Russian airlines are canceling flights to Turkey for the coming months, although the flight ban, which expires on June 1, has not yet been officially extended. S7 Airlines has canceled flights to Turkey for the whole summer.

Up to two-thirds (including reposts) of “anti-vaccine” disinformation on English-language social networks is generated by 12 (twelve) accounts, a has shown study by the London-based Center for Countering Online Hate (CCDH) . And these are not foreign agents, but people and organizations parasitizing on algorithmic connivance.

The explosive increase in the interest of Russians in the stock market in 2020 can only be the beginning of a global change in the financial behavior of people - the Central Bank expects that in the future, brokerage accounts will start 74 million Russians. There is a reason for this: even newcomers who came to the exchange less than a year ago have already received the first profit from investment, twice the income from a bank deposit.

The Tut.by domain has been blocked, Kirill Voloshin, co-founder of the Belarusian information portal , wrote on his Telegram channel. Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against officials of Tut By Media LLC under Part 2 of Art. 243 of the Criminal Code - tax evasion on an especially large scale.