Techno -giants survived the dramatic week of reports: what the investor needs to know about this The season of reports in the American market was surprisingly dramatic. This week, its culmination was the record in the history of the stock market, the collapse of the META shares, which has lost $ 251 billion capitalization on Wednesday. But the next day, Amazon almost reached the same historical growth record, having rise in price by almost $ 150 billion.

The standard of antimonopoly regulation, adopted in developed countries in the last 50 years, is actively reviewed: instead of the benefit of consumers, the main criterion is the market share of companies. This already actively affects the markets, and not only Bigtechs - the main target of antimonopoly regulation of recent years. This article was written specifically for our new newsletter “Bell. Investments”. Subscribe! Markus Winkler/Pexels What's happened?

The US reporting season turned out to be dramatic: this week contained the strongest intra -day fall in the history of stock markets (META lost $ 232 billion per day) and the largest growth (Amazon went up about $ 200 billion). It is not surprising that the most attention of investors is focused on the top 5 of the Bigtehs, whose share in the S&P 500 index last year reached almost a quarter.

A failure occurred in the work of a number of services in the Russian segment of the Internet. Problems arose with Rostelecom, the St. Petersburg Stock Exchange, a number of mobile operators and social networks. Internet users from Rostelecom were the first to complain. According to Downdetector , complaints began to arrive around 18.00 Moscow time from residents of St. Petersburg, Moscow and a number of other large Russian cities.

The Moscow bureau of Deutsche Welle announced the closure of its office in Moscow at the request of the Russian authorities. Employees will hand over their accreditations before the end of the day. The termination of DW in Russia was a response to the ban on RT DE broadcasting in Germany. Director of the German TV channel Peter Limburg called the measures taken by the Russian authorities "an overreaction".

Jens Stoltenberg will step down as NATO Secretary General to head Norway's central bank, the Norwegian Bank, according to a statement on the country's government website. It notes that Stoltenberg will leave his position in NATO at the end of September 2022, and the Norwegian Bank will head around December 1. The current head of the regulator, Øystein Olsen, will resign on March 1, and his deputy, Ida Walden Bache, will serve as interim governor until Stoltenberg takes over.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov confirmed that French President Emmanuel Macron will arrive in Moscow on February 7, and the first visit of the new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is scheduled for February 15. With both, Vladimir Putin will discuss the Ukrainian issue and security guarantees. Earlier, Deutsche Welle reported on Scholz's planned visit to Moscow .

The Russian car market began the year with a decline: sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCV) in January fell by 3.7% yoy to 91,662 units, showed statistics from the Association of European Businesses (AEB) . In 2021, sales grew by 4.3%. January is traditionally a month of low sales, the AEB notes. LCV sold 15% less than a year ago due to lower business activity over the New Year holidays.

The American Apple opened a representative office in Russia, fulfilling the requirements of the “law on landing” of foreign IT companies in Russia, Roskomnadzor reported. “Create a branch, or open a representative office, or establish a Russian legal entity. Fulfilled, ” quotes a message from the department. TASS The Apple representative office in Russia has been operating since 2007.

Gazprom and China's CNPC have signed a long-term contract for gas supplies via the Far East route, the Russian company said in a statement. It notes that after the project reaches its full capacity, the volume of gas supplies to China will increase by 10 billion cubic meters and in total will reach 48 billion cubic meters per year, including supplies through the Power of Siberia gas pipeline.

Experts from the Institute of International Finance (IIF) assessed the technical implications of Russia's disconnection from the SWIFT international financial messaging system. The main conclusion is that despite the existence of an alternative, it can only really work within the country.

Muscovites stopped taking a second PCR test for covid after recovery, was told in several clinics and at the coronavirus call center. RIA Novosti In one of the capital's polyclinics, the agency was told that at the moment, a second PCR test after quarantine is not required. Doctors from another polyclinic noted that “no one is taking repeated tests now,” and quarantine will close automatically.

The Day After Meta's Historic Crash, Markets Look Like Amazon's Historic Takeoff If Amazon's 14% gain in premarket prices isn't wiped out in trading session, the online retail giant will end Friday with the biggest daily gain in U.S. stock market capitalization, nearly $200 billion. On Thursday, Meta (Facebook's parent company) experienced the largest market history one-day drop, losing $250 billion in capitalization, writes Bloomberg.

The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Federal Antimonopoly Service intend to convince retail chains to limit markups on some socially important products to no more than 5%, writes . Kommersant According to the publication, this issue was discussed the day before, on February 3, at a meeting with the participation of the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev and the deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Viktor Yevtukhov.

The day after the historic Meta crash, the markets seem to be in for a historic takeoff for Amazon. What's happening If Amazon's 14% gain in premarket prices isn't wiped out in trading session, the online retail giant will end Friday with the biggest daily gain in U.S. stock market history, at almost $200 billion. On Thursday, Meta (Facebook's parent company) experienced its largest market history one-day drop, losing $250 billion in capitalization, writes Bloomberg.