The United States and its allies among the largest oil consumers have dealt their blow in the price war with OPEC+. The White House announced the withdrawal of 50 million barrels of oil from reserves to the market, and taking into account US allies in the suddenly emerged oil anti-cartel, this figure could rise to 75 million barrels and more.

“The market was not impressed”: the United States remove oil from reserves, but raw materials are rising The United States and its allies from among the largest oil consumers struck their price war with OPEC+.

Telegram will exclude the channels of officials and government organizations from its advertising platform. The first official advertising in the messenger appeared in early November in small communities, more than half of which were associated with cryptocurrency. There will be no advertising on the Telegram channels of presidents, government agencies and politicians, said the founder of the company, Pavel Durov, in the Telegram chat "Durov's Chat": "It was a temporary [phenomenon].

Italy's antitrust regulator has fined tech giants Amazon and Apple totaling more than $225 million. Authorities have accused the companies of colluding in the sale of Beats headphones and other Apple technology. writes .

US President Joe Biden has decided to withdraw 50 million barrels of oil from reserves to the market, according to the White House website. This will be done in consultation with China, Japan, India, South Korea and the UK. A Biden administration official said the barrels would start to come out in mid-to-late December, reported Bloomberg .

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today sent the national currency into another peak. During trading, the lira fell against the dollar by almost 12%. At the time of writing, $1 is trading at 12.7 lira - the lira has crossed the threshold of 12 lira per dollar for the first time since the 2005 denomination. The Turkish currency has been setting anti-records for 11 days - this is the longest period of collapse in 20 years, writes Bloomberg.

Rosnano bonds are going up after the Ministry of Finance commented on the company's debt problems - a few hours earlier, the department promised that the state corporation would fulfill all its obligations. As recorded by Forbes, securities of the 8th series with a coupon payment date in April 2022 have risen in price by 14:00 Moscow time by 10% - now they cost 95.3% of the face value. The yield of securities amounted to 24.54%.

The cost of gas futures in Europe jumped on Tuesday after the US announced new sanctions due to the construction of Nord Stream 2. But analysts do not expect a significant increase in prices, because the gas pipeline has already been completed and the sanctions will not have a significant impact on it. Benchmark European gas futures rose by 8.7% to 91.34 euros per megawatt-hour, that is, more than $1,060 per thousand cubic meters, in the UK the price rose by 7%, according to Bloomberg .

Techno -giants have continuous problems: Facebook is pursued by scandals, Google is preparing to fight off antimonopoly claims, and Amazon has been lit up several times in stories related to user data safety. The Internet control threads are so concentrated in the hands of the largest technological companies that their problems are the problems of the entire network.

South Korean IT giant Samsung Electronics has decided to build a chip factory in Taylor County, Texas, for nearly $17 billion, sources told the WSJ. This news should be viewed not so much in the context of overcoming the semiconductor crisis, but as a success of the Joe Biden administration in landing strategic production in the United States.

Group-IB co-owner Ilya Sachkov, who was arrested in a treason case, asked President Vladimir Putin to allow him to be under house arrest during the investigation. His statement was handed over to Forbes by lawyer Sergei Afanasiev. “I think this is the new Dreyfus case. I am not a traitor, I am not a spy, and I am not a traitor. I am a Russian engineer. Through his work, he repeatedly proved devotion and favor to the Motherland.

The Ministry of Finance said that Rosnano will continue to operate and fulfill its debt obligations. JSC "Rosnano" continues to carry out its business activities and fulfill its obligations, follows from the materials of the Ministry of Finance. The agency also said that in order to increase efficiency, the government decided to change the composition of the board of directors of the state corporation.

The Moscow Exchange and the PCT indexes have updated multi-month lows at the beginning of trading. They fall for the second day in a row. The Mosbirzhi index at a minimum fell by about 2.5% by the close - to 3776.61 points. The last time the index fell below 3800 was in August. The RTS index also fell sharply - by 2.6%. At the minimum, it fell to 1585.65 points. The fall below 1600 points occurred for the first time since July.

The amount of the contract for the purchase of Kalashnikov assault rifles by the Indian armed forces will ultimately be about $590 million, learned RBC about the licensed production of Russian weapons in India previously wrote . The specialized publication Janes . Then the amount of $ 688 million was called. A memorandum on the production of assault rifles was signed between the Russian-Indian company Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited and the Indian Ministry of Defense in February 2019.

In Russia, there is a shortage of devices of the latest line of Apple iPhone 13 smartphones and a number of popular models of the previous iPhone 12 series, writes . Kommersant According to him, on the official website of the company, the expectation for sending an order for an iPhone 13 Pro Max for 128 GB of blue color is two to three weeks. Apple re:Store is selling all iPhone 13 Pro models by pre-order only, with an expected delivery time of up to eight weeks.