In the ventricular investment market, a boom: against the background of a pandemic, new players of a very different scale came to the industry and brought new money with them. As a result, funds have accumulated record liquidity - only in the United States about $ 260 billion, and new “unicorns” are now born almost daily.

The Telegram team has begun work on the "many user suggestion" ad disabling feature and its economic conditions. Testing of official advertising messages began on the evening of November 4th. “It [the function of disabling ads] can be issued in the form of an inexpensive subscription that will allow users to directly financially support the development of Telegram,” explains Pavel Durov, the founder of the messenger. This feature is expected to launch in November.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway increased its cash holdings to a record $149.2 billion in the third quarter, said the company in a statement. The operating profit of the conglomerate increased by 18%. Warren Buffett's famous cash cushion has grown even as the company is spending more and more on share buybacks, with $7.6 billion in the third quarter. Berkshire is trying to compensate for a long absence of big deals and large investments in other high-yield assets. reminiscent of Bloomberg.

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Consultations between Russia and the United States on visa issues will be held in the coming weeks, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Interfax. But, according to him, no progress is expected yet. Moscow sees the solution to the problem in increasing the number of personnel in American consular offices in Russia.

Neural interfaces are rapidly becoming a sought-after and investment-attractive area of ​​technology, not least thanks to Elon Musk's Neuralink startup. But alternative projects go further, and they are beginning to be more limited by ethics than technology, writes MIT Technology Review (TR).

The U.S. House of Representatives approved President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion plan to develop infrastructure and create jobs. In August, the project received approval from the Senate, the upper house of Congress, after infrastructure funding was cut to $550 billion. 228 congressmen opposed the adoption of the document, which is now sent to Biden for signature, and 206 were against.

In the last 10 years of almost reliable growth of markets and the rapid expansion of the business of technological companies, the cost of value has been significantly inferior to growth shares. But now investors, frightened by inflation, are again paying attention to them.