2021 brought the investors unexpectedly high profitability: the S&P 500 index-the main global benchmark of the shares market-completed a year at the level of 4766 points, although at the beginning of the year the best forecast for Wall Street was 4400 points. We tell you which classes of assets, markets and strategies have brought the greatest profitability and why. Promotions against bonds This year has become the worst bond for the market in more than 20 years.

Apple became the first company in history to reach $3 trillion. Investors have been waiting for this moment since the end of 2021. At the first trading session of the new year on the New York Stock Exchange, Apple shares rose by 5% by 21:45 Moscow time, breaking the coveted mark of $182.86 per share, at which the company's capitalization reached $3 trillion. So far, no one in history has been able to do this.

OPEC+ will stick to a plan to boost output by 400,000 bpd in February, told Reuters. three alliance sources This is also reported by Interfax, citing sources. According to them, experts from the OPEC+ technical committee reviewed the situation, as well as forecasts for the oil market, and found no reason to change the oil production plan. A meeting of OPEC+ ministers is scheduled for January 4. OPEC's December report says that "omicron" will not have a serious impact on the global oil market.

Russia, China, the US, Britain and France consider it their "primary responsibility" to prevent war between nuclear-weapon states, the countries said in a joint statement posted on the Kremlin's website.

New German chancellor Olaf Scholz plans a "qualitatively new start" in relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Bild said , without naming sources. According to him, Scholz intends to take the relationship between the two countries under personal control. Now preparations are underway for a meeting of the two leaders, writes Bild, - Chancellor's adviser Jens Plötner has been preparing negotiations for the past two weeks, which could take place in January.

“If you don’t tell people what they succeed in, then how do they find out what needs to be continued in the same spirit?”, Asks a reasonable question that many leaders, coach and founder of the Greenlight consulting company Kate Ferrazzi forget about. Ferrazzi is called a deformer No. 1 in the world: his book “Never Eat alone” became a bestseller and brought him world fame.

Businessman Vladislav Klyushin, extradited from Switzerland to the United States and accused of insider trading, could be a useful source of classified information for the US authorities - not only on election interference, but also on other topics, Bloomberg writes, citing sources familiar with the situation in Russian intelligence . .

Tesla delivered 308,600 electric vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2021, the company said in a press release. As noted by CNBC, this is a quarterly record. The previous maximum for deliveries was reached by Tesla in the third quarter of the same year: 241,300 electric cars. In total, Tesla delivered 936,372 electric cars in 2021. This is 87% more than in 2020, when the company delivered 499,647 vehicles.