Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's speech at the annual symposium of heads of federal regional banks in Jackson Hole reassured investors. Powell has shown himself to be much more of a "dove" than the heads of some of the Federal Reserve Banks, who have made calls in recent days to begin the completion of the asset purchase (quantitative easing) program as soon as possible.

The total number of registered dead with the Covid-19, for which coronavirus became both the main and indirect cause of death, in July was 50,421 people, follows from the Rosstat, collecting medical certificates of death from the Unified State Register of the registry office. This is a record number of deaths per month since the beginning of the pandemic in Russia: the previous maximum was reached in December 2020.

Apple CEO Tim Cook sold $752 million worth of shares in the company after receiving the last tranche of papers that were due to him as a bonus. Cook has been receiving Apple stock in installments over the ten years since he took over the company. The value of Apple shares has tripled since 2011, when Cook became the head of the company. In August, Apple shares rose to a record $151.12 a share. Cook sold about 5 million shares at prices ranging from $148 to $150.

Meduza (the publication is recognized by the Ministry of Justice as a media foreign agent) published an investigation into who and how initiates the inclusion of independent media in the register of foreign agents and undesirable organizations. According to Meduza, decisions are made in the presidential administration and the Security Council, and RT is the most active in trying to influence them.

The lightning collapse of the pro-American regime in Afghanistan and the tragic evacuation from Kabul significantly undermined the ratings of US President Joe Biden. But the role of the Afghan factor in its popularity should not be exaggerated.

Sechin promised Putin to pay three times more from export gas than Gazprom. It's only about access to the pipe Rosneft leaves no attempts to break into the Gazprom export system: Rosneft, Igor Sechin, the chief executive director of Rosneft, sent a letter to Putin in which he asks Rosneft to export 10 billion cubic meters of gas per year to Europe. The document got acquainted with the document.

Today, the Russian media published an appeal to Vladimir Putin demanding to stop the state campaign against the independent press. It is impossible to name the events that have been happening with the media since the spring of this year otherwise.

Thailand's CP Foods has agreed to buy a large Russian pork producer APK Don for 22 billion rubles. CP Foods has valued APK Don at about 8.5 EBITDA, which is significantly higher than the multipliers accepted on the market, but fits into the pricing strategy of the Thai company, Kommersant writes , citing a top manager of a large meat producer. The transaction should be completed in early 2022, after the approval of the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

The assessment of the American startup with the founders from Armenia Picsart (application for photo and video processing) exceeded $ 1 billion, reports Reuters. The investment round was headed by the Vision Fund 2 of the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. During the round of the service, the service attracted $ 130 million. The Gsquared and Tribe Capital for the first time invested in PicsArt. Among the previous investors are Sequoia Capital, DCM, Graph.

Beijing plans to ban Chinese tech companies with large personal data bases from IPOs in the US, the WSJ learned . China will also begin to require that all companies, without exception, receive official permission for an IPO abroad from a special inter-ministerial committee.

Apple will allow developers to specify alternative payment methods within apps, bypassing its ecosystem, while keeping apps in the App Store. It's part of the upcoming settlement of their class action lawsuit. The lawsuit against Apple was filed in 2019. The developers accused the corporation of monopolizing the distribution channel for iOS applications, as well as an unfairly high commission on sales of 30%.

Meduza (included in the register of media outlets acting as a foreign agent), Dozhd (included in the register of media outlets acting as a foreign agent), Novaya Gazeta , the Russian Forbes and other editorial offices appealed to the country's leadership demanding to stop the campaign against the independent journalism. The appeal was sent to Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov and other government officials.

The head of the US Central Command, General Frank Mackenzie, said that the US command was put on high alert for new attacks by the Islamic State terrorist group (IS; banned in Russia). “We are doing everything we can to be ready,” said Mackenzie . According to him, part of the intelligence was transferred to the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia). The representative of the Pentagon believes that they managed to prevent a number of terrorist attacks.

Sechin promised Putin to pay three times more from exported gas than Gazprom. It's just a matter of access to the pipe Rosneft does not leave attempts to break into the export system of Gazprom: on August 13, the chief executive officer of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, sent a letter to Putin in which he asks to allow Rosneft to export 10 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe a year. with the document .

Rosneft does not leave attempts to break into the export system of Gazprom. This time, the pretext is not only the abnormally high price of gas in Europe, but also the future antitrust regulation of Nord Stream 2. What happened Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin sent a letter to Putin on August 13, asking him to allow Rosneft to export 10 billion cubic meters of gas a year to Europe. with the document .