Investbanks predict the peak of oil demand by the beginning of 2022 and a barrel of Brent for $ 120 - by summer Bank of America set a new bar in “bull” oil prices - the bank expects that by June 2022, the Brent barrel will rise in price from the current $ 85 to $ 120. The Goldman Sachs believes that the level of oil demand has come close to the end -party, and wait for the peak at the beginning of next year.

By the end of June 2022, the price of Brent crude oil will rise to $120 per barrel, according to Bank of America analysts. According to Bloomberg, bank analysts believe that the global energy crisis has led to a sharp increase in gas and coal prices around the world and this has accelerated the recovery of benchmark oil futures.

Late last week, major global media outlets reported on the launch and skyrocketing of the Squid token based on the Netflix hit series Squid game this fall. It showed insane growth - by tens of thousands of percent in less than a week, but caused skepticism and suspicions of fraud among many observers. On Monday, Nov. 1, the token suddenly rose 77 times to $2,856.54, and then plummeted to less than a dollar. Users managed to invest more than $11 million in it.

Russian pipeline gas is not at all as clean as Europe would like, if we take into account its transit, writes Bloomberg. Largely due to methane leaks in Gazprom's gas pipeline system, the Russian oil and gas industry holds the world lead in emissions of this most dangerous of the main greenhouse gases. Now Russia can use this as an argument in favor of partially exempting Gazprom from sanctions, the agency's sources say.

The fortune of the richest man on the planet Elon Musk for the first time exceeded $ 300 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time. This is the first time in history when the capital of one entrepreneur breaks through this bar. According to Forbes Real-Time, which tracks the fortunes of entrepreneurs in real time during exchange trading, Musk's fortune was $305.7 billion at 19:47 Moscow time. The Tesla founder's capital grew by $13.1 billion in a day.

Registration of "satellite V" by the World Health Organization (WHO) is postponed indefinitely. This means that the condition for unhindered entry into Europe (and from November - to the USA ) will remain vaccinated for at least another few months of one of the foreign drugs. We tell you where you can last a foreign vaccine and whether it is worth doing. Where can I do with the "satellite"?

Shares of online medical services in China collapsed amid new possible restrictions in Beijing - the authorities of the country are discussing the possibility of banning companies from conducting online consultations for the initial diagnosis of the disease, writes Bloomberg. After the publication of the draft new rules for medical services, shares of Ping An Healthcare and Technology fell more than 30%, while Alibaba Health Information Technology fell 18%.

The Novgorod region was the first of the regions to announce that it would extend non-working days from November 8 for another week. Prior to this, Vladimir Putin publicly stated that governors should independently decide on the length of non-working days. At a meeting of the regional operational headquarters, the governor of the Novgorod region, Andrey Nikitin , announced that non-working days would be extended for another week.

Apple's new privacy policy has dealt a serious blow to the advertising business of the largest social platforms, writes the Financial Times. The experts polled by the edition estimated losses of Facebook, YouTube, Snap and Twitter in almost 12% of revenue in the second half of the year, or $9.85 billion. Lotame's ad techs saw the biggest percentage loss on Snap, which earns 98% of its revenue from its smartphone app. Facebook has 90% of revenue, Youtube - 70%, Twitter - 50%.

The American bank Wells Fargo expects that in 2022 the stock market may overtake a 10% correction: the company predicts that we will have a "stock market melt" after a strong rally in 2021, writes CNBC . Chris Harvey, head of equity strategy at Wells Fargo Securitie, predicts that the US S&P 500 will reach 4825 by the end of 2021 (from 4605 on November 1).

The project "Russian norms!" It represents the second series of a special project about scientists that we made with the guys from Yandex. Our today's heroes are scientists in the field of computer sciences. Heroes of the second episode are the scientists of Yandex: Candidate of Physical and Mathematics Lyudmila Prokhorenova. Machine Intelligence and Research Management. Research field: columns analysis, theoretical machine learning. Victor Lampitsky from the Media Services "Yandex".

Offshore revelations have been replaced by a wave of investigations about Facebook in the US media. Over the past week, more than a dozen publications have published their materials based on the leak, dubbed the Facebook Papers. We tell you that during this time the world has learned about the most popular social network in the world. Immediately 17 American publications on October 25 published several revealing articles based on an analysis of internal Facebook documents.

Russian businesses may be required to store information transmitted over internal technological communication networks for three years. This is evidenced by the draft amendments to the law "On Communications", submitted by the government to the State Duma. about the document .

Barclays CEO Jess Staley, 64, is stepping down from his post on Monday, November 1st. On Friday, the management of the investment bank was informed of the preliminary results of the investigation of Staley's links with the financier Jeffrey Epstein accused of sex trafficking, writes Bloomberg. The bank's release states that Staley will dispute the results of the investigation and, in connection with this, as well as the essence of the results, is leaving management.

In the first nine months of 2021, Apple sold 1.2 million chargers worth 2.6 billion rubles in Russia, reports Kommersant , citing MTS data. Growth in sales in pieces amounted to 884%, and in money - 1087% year-on-year. In general, Svyaznoy's estimates coincide with MTS's calculations: 1.3 million Apple chargers worth 2.8 billion rubles were purchased in Russia in three quarters.