02 October 2013, 20:49 / Finance Companies have become more active in hedging currency risks in emerging markets Vitaly Parshutin Multinational companies are willing to pay for protection from sharp fluctuations in the exchange rates of developing countries.

02 October 2013, 00:00 You can’t understand Russia with theory Forty years after the development of the positioning theory, which became a cult in Russia, its author, American Jack Trout, admitted that it does not work in Russia. He does not know of examples of Russian companies that were able to put into practice fairly simple recommendations Elena Gorelova Jack Trout is convinced that not many will be able to bring his ideas to life. / S.

Buried in paper On the article “The Leader’s Mistake” (No. 176 of 09.25.2013, p. 10) Several years ago, during a pre-investigation check, I encountered a demand to provide a purchase book and a sales book for four years! No one voiced any grounds or reasons for conducting such an check. They have the right not to voice it. And they really asked me to provide all this in electronic form. I was categorically against it.

Football millionaires. 521 million euros - Real Madrid's revenue in the 2012/13 season 491 million euros - revenue of FC Barcelona 424.5 million euros - Manchester United's revenue Source: club data During the 2012/13 season, the Shakhtar Donetsk football club earned $166 million - this is the income of the miners, Shakhtar CEO Sergei Palkin reported yesterday on his Facebook page.

"Tele2 Russia" will be divided into investment portfolios. / E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti Gazprombank and Surgutneftegaz may become ABR's partners in this deal, says an employee of the investment bank and Kostin's acquaintance confirms. Another investment banker knows that the structures of Arkady Rotenberg and Konstantin Malofeev's Marshall Capital participated in the negotiations on the purchase of Tele2.

OJSC Kamaz is using its Indian rupee debt to Russia to promote its assembly plant products in that country. The company proposes to consider the possibility of allocating $100 million from the debt to create a specialized state financial company, according to materials from the company's main shareholder, Rostec State Corporation, which Interfax has reviewed. It is assumed that the company will provide loans to end consumers of Kamaz products on the Indian market.

General Motors' plant in Zaragoza, Spain, will produce Opel and PSA Peugeot-Citroen minivans, Automotive News Europe reports, citing a statement from Opel. This is the first announcement of a joint production location between the GM-PSA alliance partners, the publication notes. The minivan will be based on a PSA platform, the company said in a statement. Opel's engineering division in Rüsselsheim, Germany, will handle the technical side of the joint project. PSA will supply the powertrains.

Sverdlovsk Region Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev congratulated Yevgeny Roizman on his victory in the Yekaterinburg mayoral elections. This was reported by the regional leader's information policy department. Kuyvashev believes that it is especially important for the city leadership to engage in the formation of executive bodies.

The European Central Bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at 0.5% on Wednesday as recent economic data suggested a nascent recovery in the euro zone. It also kept its deposit rate at 0% and its emergency lending rate at 1%. Euro zone manufacturing activity rose for a third month in September as strong demand allowed manufacturers to raise prices for the first time since mid-2012, a survey showed on Tuesday. However, euro zone consumer price inflation slowed to 1.1% in September.

European integration took place in much more favourable conditions than today's Eurasian integration project. In the photo: French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman signs the treaty on his country's accession to the European Coal Community and / AP Photo / ERG There is no industry integration at all. In Europe, it is precisely this - the coal and steel community - that has become the rigid basis of the grouping.

02 October 2013, 20:13 / Auto Jaguar Land Rover is set to open a plant in Brazil Alexey Nevelsky Jaguar Land Rover is close to concluding a deal to build a plant in Brazil, the Financial Times reports. The company plans to produce up to 10,000 cars a year from components made in the UK. “This is a very interesting market where we have a large share,” says JPL CEO Ralf Speth.

Today, the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg will consider a claim on the legality of decisions taken by the City Duma elected on September 8 at its first meeting on September 24, including the approval of Yevgeny Roizman as the city mayor (who is also the chairman of the City Duma) and the formation of a commission to select the city manager of Yekaterinburg.

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The 15,000 sq. m. production facility will begin construction next year on the territory of the Dzerzhinsk Vostochny industrial park; the plant should begin operations by 2016. It is planned that the staff will be about 270 people, according to a Danfoss press release.

A picket protesting the closure of the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill without providing alternative jobs to residents of Baikalsk was held outside the Irkutsk Region administration building. As reported by ITAR-TASS, fifty people took part in the action. Officials invited the protesters to negotiate.