January 12, 2015, 11:08 / Finance / News Brent price dropped below $49 per barrel undefined Vedomosti By 10.35 Moscow time, the price of February futures for Brent oil supplies at the London ICE exchange dropped to $48.97 per barrel. The price decrease since the beginning of trading was 2.22%. By the close of trading on Friday, the price of Brent futures fell by $0.85 (1.67%) and amounted to $50.11 per barrel, which was the minimum since April 2009.

January 12, 2015, 19:54 / Business FSK asked for 100 billion rubles of pension money Money is needed for the investment program, and the probability of receiving it is high Alina Fadeeva FSK appealed to the Ministry of Economic Development with a request to consider the possibility of allocating 100 billion rubles to the company.

January 12, 2015, 02:53 / Finance Goldman Sachs: The euro will fall in price to the level of the dollar by the end of 2016 By the end of 2016, the euro will be equal in value to the dollar, Goldman Sachs predicts: the eurozone economy is not keeping pace with the acceleration of the American Tatyana Bochkareva On Friday, the euro was worth $1,183 - this is the minimum for nine years (see chart). To achieve parity with the dollar, in 2015-2016. he needs to fall in price by another 15%.

January 12, 2015, 18:38 / Finance / News MasterCard will transfer domestic transactions to processing in NSPK undefined Vedomosti The National Payment Card System (NPC) and the MasterCard payment system have entered into an agreement to transfer the processing of an international company to the NSPK, the Bank of Russia said in a statement. The conclusion of the agreement will allow us to begin the gradual transfer of domestic transactions on MasterCard cards to processing in the NSPK.

On Monday, Tomsk held single-person pickets in support of the TV-2 television company, with which the local television center refused to renew its broadcasting contract since 2015. The protests near the regional administration building were attended by journalists from the television company and city residents.

January 12, 2015, 19:06 / Finance South American countries need a new economic model after the end of the commodity boom Falling prices for a variety of raw materials, including metals, energy and agricultural products, have exposed serious trade and financial problems in the region John Paul Rathbon Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters In Colombia and Peru, commodities account for two-thirds of exports.

Formula 1 World Championship team Mercedes AMG Petronas will offer its driver and reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton a new three-year contract, La Gazzetta dello Sport reports. According to the publication, the new agreement of the 30-year-old British racer provides for a fixed rate: 20 million euros per season. He will also be entitled to bonuses: 1 million euros for each stage victory, 5 million euros for the world champion title.

Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti The Kremlin and the White House are fighting over anti-crisis strategies: on one side of the scale is the preservation of free movement of capital, on the other is the consistent creation of an isolated system, says Alexei Kudrin, head of the Civil Initiatives Committee. "I see that these approaches are currently fighting in the government and the president, the situation is being analyzed, economists are being listened to.

There are many pictures in the film, and all of them are big-eyed / kinopoisk.ru The artist Margaret Keane has been drawing all her life and still, at 87, draws people (mostly children) with huge, sad eyes that take up half their faces. Like bowls. She drew with the same automatism with which middle managers draw paper airplanes and swords during dreary meetings. She has scribbled hundreds, if not thousands, of monotonous, unhappy and at the same time cute, big-eyed children.

Viktor Yanukovych in Rostov-on-Don / Ivan Sekretarev / AP Interpol has put former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on the wanted list, according to a card on the Interpol website. The wording of the charges is "misuse, illegal appropriation or alienation of state property on an especially large scale or as part of an organized group." The card's status is "red": after his arrest, Yanukovych must be extradited to Ukraine.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov believes that the condemnation of terrorism by world leaders in Paris is biased. "Why have presidents, kings, prime ministers never led protest marches in connection with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Afghans, Syrians, Egyptians, Libyans, Yemenis, Iraqis?" he wrote on his Instagram page.

January 12, 2015, 02:51 / Finance Major US banks may cut bonuses for traders Traders at the largest US banks lost in December what they had earned at the beginning of the quarter. For this they will have to pay with their own bonuses Alexey Nevelsky Citigroup on Wednesday told employees it would cut traders' bonuses by 5-10%, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, citing people familiar with the situation. This is due to the weak results they showed in the equity markets in December.

January 12, 2015, 15:29 / Business Gazprombank and Firtash's Ostchem settled the debt for $842.5 million, details were not disclosed Ilya Usov Gazprombank (GPB) and the chemical holding Ostchem, which consolidates the production of nitrogen fertilizers Group DF, owned by Dmitry Firtash, have resolved controversial issues regarding the repayment of debt for $842.5 million. This is stated in a press release from Ostchem.

PhosAgro shareholders approved dividends for the first 9 months of 2014 in the amount of 2.6 billion rubles at a rate of 20 rubles per share (6.67 rubles per global depositary receipt), the company said in a statement. This issue was considered at an extraordinary meeting on December 31, 2014. Dividends will be received by shareholders according to the register as of January 11, 2015.

Oil has been falling for the seventh week in a row and has lost more than half its value since the summer. On January 9, a barrel of Brent cost about $50. Oil has not been so cheap since the end of 2008. Over the past week, the price has fallen by 11%, traders say - for no apparent reason. In the US, the number of operating drilling rigs has continued to decline for the fifth week, but there are still more of them than a year earlier.