After Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the concept of the Metaverse at the end of October, announcing the renaming of the company to Meta along the way, life in this market began to boil. Companies are buying virtual lots in the metaverse, and private investors are scrambling to find stocks to stake on the new world. Should an investor chase this hype?

On November 29, it became known that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsie will leave his post. The shares of the company immediately jumped by 11% (up to $ 52.2). What is the market expecting from Twitter and what should investors think about? What is hype The spontaneous optimism of investors can be understood: since the second coming of Dorsy to the post of head of the company on September 30, 2015, Twitter shares have grown by only 75%.

Vladimir Potanin's Interros Capital, which controls a 31.5% stake in Norilsk Nickel, has moved from Cyprus to Russia. According to the entrepreneur, this decision was made because of the attractiveness of "Russian offshore companies" and for the development of Interros' business in the Far East. On Friday, the international company LLC Interros Capital, the largest foreign company of the Interros group, was registered in a special administrative region on Russky Island.

The shareholders of the British-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell approved the changes proposed by the company's management, including the change of tax residency. Now Shell can move from the Netherlands to the UK. 99.77% of the participants in the extraordinary meeting of shareholders voted for the changes. In addition to changing tax residency, they approved a simplification of the share capital structure and a shortening of the name to Shell.

Clients of Tinkoff Bank on Friday evening encountered problems in the operation of its applications and website. The bank acknowledged the failure, but the reasons were not specified. Earlier today, problems were observed in the work of Sberbank-online. As of 19.15 Moscow time, when entering the Tinkoff Bank mobile application, customers received a notification that the application may work with errors, and payments and transfers may not be carried out.

One of the largest photo banks, Getty Images, announced that it will go public through a merger with the SPAC company CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II. The company had already traded shares publicly, but delisted in 2008. According to the company's statement , the deal valued Getty Images at $4.8 billion. As Bloomberg notes , the company received a valuation of 15.2 times Getty's adjusted earnings for 2022.

Consumers, it seems, know: there is nothing more important for ecology than to sort garbage and abandon disposable packages. In matters of ecology, there are many unobvious ones. Why is there little one transition to alternative energy sources than the largest corporations in the struggle for the climate will help British farmers, which can be done with competitors and how to “sell” a green agenda?

At the end of November, inflation in the United States accelerated to 6.8%, a record high in almost 40 years. According to the results of June 1982, it was 7.2%. The CPI rose 6.8% from November 2020, according to data from the US Department of Labor on Friday. Compared to October 2021, inflation accelerated by 0.8%, exceeding analysts' forecasts and continuing the significant growth trend that began at the beginning of this year.

in Oslo today ceremony took place The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize . After the presentation, the award-winning editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, delivered a traditional Nobel speech. Muratov spoke Russian. His speech is published by Novaya Gazeta.

RBC lost to Rosneft a lawsuit related to an article about the purchase by Rosneft of the Payakhskoye field from Neftegazholding, the ex-head of the company, Eduard Khudainatov. “The claim is fully satisfied,” it says on the case card . The key statement of last year's article is that Rosneft, having sold shares in 6 operating projects in the developed oil and gas provinces, will buy the promising, but practically undeveloped Payakha in Taimyr from Khudainatov.

The Court of Appeal in England and Wales today allowed the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. The defense can challenge this decision, but it brings Assange closer to real expulsion and trial. The ruling overturning the lower court's ruling was a big loss for Assange's defense after a success earlier this year.

Founders and CEOs of companies sold their stakes in record volumes this year, The Wall Street Journal writes . This is natural in the wake of record growth in quotes in most sectors. This year, 48 top companies—four times more than the average from 2016 to 2020 inclusive—raised $200 million or more in stock sales. The amount of sales by insiders of S&P 500 companies reached $63.5 billion by the beginning of December, which is one and a half times more than in 2020.

Founders and CEOs have sold off their stakes in record numbers this year, writes The Wall Street Journal. This is natural in the wake of record growth in quotes in most sectors. This year, 48 "tops" - four times more than the average from 2016 to 2020 inclusive - received $ 200 million or more from the sale of shares in their companies. The amount of sales by insiders of S&P 500 companies reached $63.5 billion by the beginning of December, which is one and a half times more than in 2020.

In November, cellular communications in Russia rose in price for the first time in a year - the monthly fee increased by an average of 2.4% compared to the level of October, Rosstat recorded. In addition to the subscription fee, the average tariff for cellular communication services has also increased - in November it reached 391.6 rubles.

In 2021, for the first time in several years, physical sales of smartphones in Russia will decrease. But in monetary terms, they will grow noticeably - this is the result of a changed sales structure. At the end of the year, sales of smartphones in unit terms will decrease for the first time since 2017 - by 7% to 29.4 million units, Kommersant quotes the forecast of the Svyaznoy retailer. According to M.Video-Eldorado, 30-31 million units will be sold.