The owners of the American luxury goods retailer Neiman Marcus Inc. - investment companies TPG Capital, Warburg Pincus and Leonard Green & Partners - have begun negotiations to sell the asset. As Bloomberg reports, citing informed sources, Neiman Marcus is being sold for $6 billion; in 2005, the investment companies bought it for $5.2 billion. The buyers may be Ares Management LLC and the company managing the funds of the Canada Pension Plan.

In August-September, the situation with the removal of goods became more complicated, the Council of Participants in the Market of Services of Railway Rolling Stock Operators (a non-profit partnership of the largest railway operators) reported. In April-August, the turnover of a railcar increased from 18.7 to 19.4 days (a gondola car - from 17.4 to 18.4 days), according to a letter addressed to Deputy Minister of Transport Alexey Tsydenov.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered a suspension of state tests of the Project 955 nuclear submarines Alexander Nevsky and Vladimir Monomakh after the Nevsky unsuccessfully launched a Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Friday. The missile, which is the main the submarines, was launched towards the Kura test site in Kamchatka, but its flight stopped after two minutes due to a failure in the control system, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.

The Vilnius District Court has dropped charges against former prefect of the Northern Administrative District (SAO) of Moscow Yuri Khardikov. The Lithuanian prosecutor's office accused him of laundering about 10.4 million euros through his Lithuanian companies, which he allegedly obtained in Russia through criminal means. The court found no grounds for bringing the former official to criminal responsibility, said Judge Stasim Liemazis.

Alexey Navalny / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Moscow mayoral candidate Alexei Navalny announced today that he does not recognize the results of the mayoral elections. "We do not recognize the announced results. They are fake," the oppositionist wrote in his Livejournal.

OOO "Spectr Group" Co-owners (Unified State Register of Legal Entities, 2010) - Cyprus-based Krasper Rus Limited (100%). Financial indicators (SPARK-Interfax data, 2011): revenue - 1.83 billion rubles, profit - 25.4 million rubles. OOO Spektr Group, which manages the chain of drugstores of the same name, in August modernized the store on ul. Vosstaniya, 22, to a new concept, Andrey Melnikov, CEO of Spektr, told Vedomosti.

Acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has received 51.52% of the votes in the Moscow mayoral elections, while Alexei Navalny has received 27.04%. These data were released by the Moscow City Electoral Commission after counting more than 70% of the protocols.

09 September 2013, 00:00 The reserve played up the profits Sberbank had a profitable August - the bank earned 33.5 billion rubles, reducing contributions to reserves by three times Natalia Biyanova In July, the bank alarmed the market with a sharp increase in the cost of risk (the ratio of accrued reserves to portfolio) - 228 basis points (2.28%). This was the highest figure since 2011 and led analysts to assume that the state bank was expecting loan losses.

M. Stulov / Vedomosti The results of Sunday's regional and municipal elections are still being counted, and their results will be assessed by analysts for a long time. So far, we are only talking about the quality and legitimacy of the procedure.

The arbitration court, at the request of Master Bank dated August 28, suspended the Central Bank’s order on the need to accrue additional reserves by 336.7 million rubles, as follows from the ruling posted on the court’s website. The bank received an order to add additional reserves on August 8; in addition, as stated in the document, from August 9 the Central Bank limited the bank’s statutory activities for a period of six months.

9 out of 10 Rating of undesirable professions 09.09.2013 Vedomosti, together with the Superjob.ru research center, decided to ask Russians what profession they would not agree to for any money. This summer's survey included 8,300 respondents representing 19 professions. Only 5% of respondents said that they have an equally good attitude towards any profession, 21% found it difficult to answer. Read the note for details. ← Ctrl → Photo: Fotolia/PhotoXPress.ru Pathologist

Acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has received 51.34% of the votes in the Moscow mayoral elections, while Alexei Navalny has received 27.22%. These data were released by the Moscow City Electoral Commission after counting 81.68% of the protocols. Communist Ivan Melnikov receives 10.67%, Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin - 3.52%, LDPR State Duma deputy Mikhail Degtyarev - 2.90%, and A Just Russia leader Nikolai Levichev - 2.82%.

The first week of autumn turned into an accelerated withdrawal of foreign money for the Russian stock market. During the week ending September 4, $298 million was withdrawn from Russian funds, and taking into account Russia's weight in global funds, Russian stocks lost $530 million in a week. The outflow continues for the sixth week in a row; from August 21 to 28, $112 million and $213 million were withdrawn, respectively, according to EPFR Global data.

According to preliminary data, the mayoral elections in the Karelian capital were won by self-nominated candidate Galina Shirshina, who received 41.9% of votes, the Central Electoral Commission of Karelia told Interfax. According to the commission, after processing 100% of the ballots, Shirshina was 13% ahead of the current mayor, Nikolai Levin, nominated by the regional branch of the United Russia party.

09 September 2013, 15:45 / Finance In Japan, Deutsche Bank employees are suspected of illegal expenses for pension fund employees Natalya Raibman Employees of Deutsche Bank AG were suspected of providing illegal services for organizing leisure activities for employees of a Japanese pension fund. As Reuters reports, citing informed sources, the Japanese Securities and Exchange Trading Supervision Commission has been investigating this information since May 2013.