In October, inflation in the United States set a record since 1990. This is a key risk to investors Inflation in the United States, which investors are already following, holding their breath, according to the results of October, exceeded all forecasts. The increase in prices in the largest world economy has accelerated to 6.2% in annual terms - this is a record since 1990 and the fifth month with inflation above 5%.

Tesla competitor Rivian, which just went IPO above the upper limit, has risen in price by almost 40% since the start of trading. Rivian's initial offering was $78 per share at a valuation of $77 billion. The company raised $12 billion, making it the largest IPO in the US this year. But at the opening of public trading, Rivian shares rose 37% to $106, and its capitalization, including options, exceeded $100 billion.

Meta has announced its first big partnership since its rebranding from Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg's company integrates a remote collaboration solution with Microsoft. Integration will undergo Workplace (Meta) and Teams (Microsoft) services. For example, Workplace content will be available in Teams, and Teams video conferencing will be available in Workplace. The offer came from “bottom-up” from big business, told Ujwal Singh, head of Workplace at Meta, CNBC.

Gett has officially announced its entry into the American Nasdaq stock exchange - the taxi service will receive a listing through a merger with SPAC-company Rosecliff Acquisition. In an official release (available to The Bell), Gett says it is going public with a $1 billion valuation.

Gas prices in Europe have fallen significantly below $1,000 per thousand cubic meters. Their dynamics is influenced by the beginning growth of deliveries from Russia. December futures on the Dutch TTF index fell more than 12% below $800 after Russia's Gazprom increased gas supplies to Europe, writes Bloomberg . The concern booked part of the transit capacity through Poland and Ukraine, and operational data from border metering stations confirm the growth in supplies.

Inflation in the US, which investors are already watching with bated breath, in October exceeded all forecasts. Price growth in the world's largest economy accelerated to 6.2% year-on-year, the highest since 1990 and the fifth straight month with inflation above 5%. Most analysts no longer doubt that what is happening cannot be considered a temporary effect of the removal of covid restrictions and the period of high inflation will last at least six months.

Google lost its first appeal in a landmark case against the European Union: the court upheld a fine of 2.4 billion euros, effectively indicating to the search engine that they see it primarily not as a private service, but as a public infrastructure. The BBC Russian Service called the incident "Google's doomsday", Bloomberg writes that the decision will "encourage other antitrust regulators, including the US" in their crusade against the tech giants.

The general director of Yandex.Lavka Ilya Krasilchik announced that he was leaving his post, but so far remains in the service of express delivery of products. What position he will take is unknown. Dmitry Masyuk is the new leader of the "shop". “Dima [Masyuk] - super and simultaneously with the“ shop ”is responsible for the entire FMCG company (“ shop ”, part of the“ market ”,“ food ”),” the dyer wrote on Facebook.

Russia and Germany covered the content of the telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and acting president in different ways. German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The conversation was devoted to the crisis on the border between Belarus and the EU. According to the Kremlin release , the conversation took place at the initiative of Merkel.

One of the most anticipated IPOs of the year, U.S. electric car maker Rivian, went above the upper end of the range to become the largest in the U.S. market in 2021. The company, which has barely begun to supply marketable products, is rated at the level of Ford. Rivian's initial offering was priced at $78 per share. This is higher than the range revised last Friday (from $72 to $74) and even more so than the original range (from $57 to $62).

The number of phishing pages imitating the PornHub porn service has increased dramatically during the lockdown, reports Kommersant , citing cybersecurity companies. The main target for hackers was the account data in VKontakte. According to experts, since the beginning of November, more than 60 domains operating the PornHub brand have appeared, while only a few were registered in September-October.

Netflix announced the filming of a new Russian project - a psychological drama starring Alexander Petrov. It will be the second domestic series produced by the streaming service. This is the story of how a celebrity finds himself in the middle of tragic events that cause his personality to break down, and the desperate struggle to become himself again, according to a press release from the streaming service. Filming of the series has already begun, but it does not have a title yet.

IKEA has no plans to raise prices in Russia in 2022, Pontus Erntell, CEO of the Russian branch of the Swedish furniture giant, said. There are no serious problems with the supply chain in this region: the company localized part of the production and launched the delivery of goods from Asia not by ocean, but by land.

Although the use of Sputnik V is still not allowed in the EU, Aleksey Repik's R-Pharm plans to start producing the vaccine in Germany, learned Kommersant . For this purpose, the company has already received a loan of 50 million euros. Raiffeisenbank issued a three-year loan to R-Pharm to expand the company's production in Illertissen, Germany, the parties to the agreement told the newspaper.

In January-October, banks issued mortgage loans to the population for 4.59 trillion rubles, which is more than in the entire 2020, which was a record year for the Russian mortgage market, RBC reports citing data from Frank RG. Last year, mortgage loans were issued for 4.49 trillion rubles. The data of the Central Bank and the State Development Institute "Dom.RF" usually do not differ much from the estimates of Frank RG.