According to the Central Bank, retail lending has also slowed down: over two months it grew by 2.4% to 334.8 billion rubles (in 2011 – by 4.8%). The relative growth rates have decreased, but this was predicted given the significant growth last year, says Mikhail Ioffe, manager of the VTB 24 branch.

02 April 2012, 19:10 / Finance European banks are inventing new ways to avoid defaults David Enrich Sarah Schaefer Munoz European banks are creating new financial instruments and structures to solve their balance sheet problems - or at least delay the day of reckoning as long as the loans issued by the European Central Bank will allow. Some banks are forming never-before-seen funds to remove risky assets and improve capital adequacy without raising additional funds.

The owners of the largest seller of home appliances in the Urals, the company Rembyttekhnika, have not changed; the information disseminated on the market about the sale of the company to the Eldorado chain is incorrect, as follows from a letter sent at the end of March on behalf of the shareholders of Rembyttekhnika to the company's partners (Vedomosti has the text of the letter). Information about Eldorado's interest in Rembyttekhnika appeared about a month ago.

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April 02, 2012, 00:00 / Auto / Photo BMW i8 Concept Spyder The Bavarian concern has prepared for the public appearance of the third model of the “electric” sub-brand “i” - the i8 Concept Spyder. The hybrid car is based on the i8 coupe, from which it differs primarily in the length of the body and the number of seats. It is expected that the concept will be presented at the Beijing International Motor Show at the end of April 2012. Read more at Vedomosti.ru

In 2011, the net profit under RAS of JSC Vanino Commercial Sea Port increased by 3.9 times compared to the previous year to 339.4 million rubles. This was reported by the port representative Natalia Stefashina. The port's cargo turnover over the past year decreased by 1.7% to 5.909 million tons.

Yevgeny Urlashov, who won the Yaroslavl mayoral elections held on Sunday, intends to fire four of the seven current deputy mayors upon taking up his new post, including his opponent in the elections, Yakov Yakushev, who is supported by the city and regional authorities and was appointed deputy mayor two weeks before the elections. "The first thing I will do is make personnel changes. There are a number of people with whom I will not sign a contract. They know this.

Complex calculation Rosatom is changing Europe The market is expecting record dividends from Gazprom: late on Thursday evening, the concern disclosed its profit under RAS for 2011 (and this is the basis for calculating payments), which, as it turned out, grew 2.4 times compared to last year to 879.6 billion rubles. According to Gazprom employees, officials recommend sending 25% of the profit to shareholders, i.e.

Dutch prosecutors are investigating a Dutch foreign ministry official on suspicion of passing confidential information to alleged Russian spies arrested in Germany in October 2011, Dutch media reported on Monday. According to the newspaper Telegraaf, the police arrested the former Dutch vice-consul in Hong Kong, Raymond P., on March 24, announcing the arrest only on Monday.

High incomes of heads of financial companies may become a thing of the past: European regulators want to oblige them to approve the largest payments to managers from shareholders Europe's largest banks - Italy's UniCredit, France's BNP Paribas and Société Generale, as well as Spain's La over the next 12 months Caixa - plan to return 80-100 billion euros to the ECB - a third of the amount taken from the regulator during the second three-year unlimited auction LTRO ( long-term operation

"Inter RAO UES" has temporarily suspended electricity supplies from the Moldavian State District Power Plant to Moldova since April 1 until the country's government agencies approve the already signed new annual contract, a company representative told RIA Novosti. The previous contract for the supply of electricity from MoGRES to Moldova expired on April 1, 2012. The new contract provides for a 13.2% price increase to $69 per megawatt-hour of electricity.

Juice and milk drink maker Wimm-Bill-Dann, with revenue of $2.6 billion in 2010, was ranked 237th in the Global Powers of Consumer Products ranking of the 250 largest companies in the consumer sector, between American contact lens maker Bausch & Lomb and South African food producer Tiger Brands. The combined revenue of 250 consumer market leaders in the 2010 financial year was $2.82 trillion, up 8.4% from 2009, according to Deloitte.

President Dmitry Medvedev introduced amendments to the Civil Code to the State Duma. "This is a very fundamental document, even multi-page in volume, because it affects the fundamental institutions of civil law," Medvedev said at a meeting on legislative changes.

The authorities of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan have suspended oil exports from Iraq due to disagreements with the central government. A statement from the Kurdistan Ministry of Natural Resources said that Baghdad has not paid the region's companies for the past 10 months.

April 02, 2012, 21:29 / Finance Goldman Sachs cleaned out its Russian portfolio By the end of January, the investment bank funds got rid of shares in Gazprom, Norilsk Nickel, Evraz and Okay Anton Trifonov D.Acker / Bloomberg At the same time, the fund slightly changed the structure of the portfolio: it completely withdrew from the securities of the Okay network, Norilsk Nickel and Evraz, of which it had about $4-10 million.