Together with the army of private investors, new problems have appeared on the stock market. In particular, the USA is widely discussed in the United States: as game elements of brokerage design design, such as Robinhood, Webull and others, affect novice investors and whether to intervene regulators. We tell how this discussion is developing in the United States and whether this problem is relevant for Russia.

the chairman of the board of the BKF bank, Olga Mirimskaya, for two months The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested , accused of giving a bribe to investigator Yuri Nosov. The entrepreneur and the investigator were detained the day before. Nosov was also taken into custody. According to the lawyer, Mirimskaya is charged with giving a bribe in the amount of 3.25 million rubles in 2017 to Nosov, an employee of the Moscow Region headquarters of the Investigative Committee.

There should be a law on foreign agents in Russia, but there are a number of rules in it that need to be adjusted, said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian president. For example, in his opinion, the media should be given a chance to be corrected before being included in the register of foreign agents, as well as a clearer scheme for exiting this status. “Should there be a law on foreign agents?

The Istanbul Stock Exchange halted trading for an hour on Friday afternoon amid a record collapse in the Turkish lira and stocks. After the Central Bank of Turkey once again lowered the key rate, the Turkish currency for the first time in history fell to the level of 17 lira per dollar. At around 4:30 pm Moscow time, the trading suspension system worked on the exchange after the markets fell by a certain amount, reports RIA Novosti , citing a statement from the trading platform.

The Central Bank advocates that the Russian financial infrastructure is not used for cryptocurrency transactions, said Elvira Nabiullina . According to her, "it is quite possible to implement it." Earlier, Reuters, citing sources , reported that the Central Bank wants to ban investments in cryptocurrencies in Russia. According to the agency, the regulator saw risks to financial stability in the growing number of cryptocurrency transactions.

Sinopharm, Johnson & Johnson and Russia's Sputnik V vaccines cause low or no production of antibodies effective against the omicron strain of coronavirus, Bloomberg writes , citing a preprint study from the University of Washington in Seattle and Switzerland's Humabs Biomed. The study was carried out on the blood plasma of subjects on a small sample.

QR codes are walking around Russia: in many regions, you can’t get to a restaurant, a shopping center and have settled in a hotel in many regions without them, and by February they can be fixed at the federal level. While this has not happened, the decision on the QR codes lies on the local authorities who behave differently.

Vladimir Putin asked to finalize the law on COVID-certificates in public places. According to him, legislators need to ensure that the bill is clear and understandable. At the plenary session of the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Putin commented on the draft law on QR codes in public places, which was adopted by the State Duma yesterday in the first reading. The President asked the legislators to finalize the draft again.

The Russian Foreign Ministry today published draft security guarantee treaties and agreements on measures to ensure the security of the Russian Federation and NATO member states transferred by the United States and NATO. The topic of guarantees was discussed by the presidents of Russia and the United States, but the documents contain points that are obviously unacceptable to the West.

The financial company H&R Block sued Jack Dorsey's Block, accusing it of trademark infringement. Dorsey payments company, formerly known as Square, was renamed in early December. H&R Block has been around for over 60 years. According to representatives of H&R Block, the Dorsey company name and its logo can mislead customers, they will accept one brand after another.

Goldman Sachs gave a new forecast for oil - according to investment bank analysts, the price of oil could rise to $ 100 over the next two years, and demand will reach a "new record level". Goldman Sachs predicts a new high in oil demand in 2022 and again in 2023, writes CNBC.

The Central Bank on December 17 raised the key rate for the seventh time in a row - immediately by 100 B.P. up to 8.5%. The Board of Directors of the Central Bank decided to increase the rate by 100 B.P. - On such a large step, the regulator is going on for the second time in a year. The current level - 8.5% - corresponds to the one on which the key rate has been from mid -September to almost the end of October 2017.

In Moscow, Olga Mirimskaya, ex-co-owner of the Russian Product company and BKF bank, was detained on suspicion of bribery. Investigator Yury Nosov, who was in charge of one of Mirimskaya's cases in 2017, was detained together with her. The Basmanny Court of Moscow received a petition to select a measure of restraint in the form of arrest. The detention of Mirimskaya and Nosov was reported to RBC and Kommersant .

Apple creates a team to manufacture wireless chips in-house. The company now uses chips from Broadcom and Skyworks Solutions, but amid a shortage of chips, it wants to make its ecosystem less dependent on external suppliers. According to Bloomberg, the company began looking for several dozen specialists to develop chips in Irvine, near the Broadcom plant. Irvine is also home to Skyworks and other wireless chip manufacturers.

The authorities are planning to introduce an application that allows ordinary passers-by to "fine" violators of traffic rules based on photos and videos, writes RIA Novosti with reference to Autonews. The publication notes that such an order was given by Vladimir Putin. A federal application under the unofficial name "People's Inspector" is planned to be created on the basis of "Moscow Assistant", which is already used in the capital to control violators of parking rules.