Elon Musk lost $1.1 billion during the first two minutes of trading on the New York Stock Exchange due to the fall in shares of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, Bloomberg reports . Read on vedomosti.ru His fortune in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index fell to $22.3 billion. Later, by 19.00 Moscow time, it rebounded slightly to $22.4 billion. Previously, Tesla reported a record 31% decline in sales.

service The Yandex.Taxi will soon allow users to order cargo transportation. This is stated in a letter that the company sent to its partners, reports the Kommersant newspaper . A Vedomosti source close to Yandex.Taxi confirmed the company’s plans to launch a new tariff.

April 04, 2019, 11:39 / Business / News Galitsky named three main reasons for the sale of Magnit undefined Vedomosti Entrepreneur Sergei Galitsky said that three main reasons pushed him to sell the Magnit retail chain he founded : constant psychological stress, age and increased government regulation. this He said in an interview with The Bell. The first reason, according to the businessman, was due to the fact that he was used to keeping the situation under complete control.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Sales of smart home devices in Russia in 2018 increased by 33% in units and by 11% in money, according to calculations by the research company GfK. In total, 1.2 million such devices were purchased in Russia in 2018 for a total of 20.8 billion rubles (282 million euros at the average exchange rate for 2018).

The head of the department for cross-border cooperation of the presidential administration, Oleg Govorun, is leaving this post. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to three sources. This information was confirmed by two RBC sources close to the Kremlin. Read on vedomosti.ru According to a Kommersant source close to the administration, Govorun is leaving for family reasons. His place will be taken by one of the department’s employees, the source noted.

For insurers, 2018 was very successful: their profits increased by more than one and a half times and reached 204.1 billion rubles, the Central Bank reported . Read on vedomosti.ru The regulator explains the increase in profits by an increase in insurers’ income from investment activities, as well as a decrease in loss ratios and expenses.

04 April 2019, 23:41 / Media Roskomnadzor massively blocks articles about VTB About 1,000 publications were banned, lawyers call this a precedent Ksenia Boletskaya Ekaterina Bryzgalova Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti blogging service The Yandex.Zen deleted an investigation published on April 2 by the Baza project about apartments owned by VTB . Baza announced the removal of the material in its Telegram channel; the text of the investigation is available on the project’s website.

Sales of Lada cars in Russia in March increased by 10.1% to 33,821 cars, said AvtoVAZ in a statement. In total, based on the results of the first three months of the year, 82,363 Lada cars were sold in Russia, which is 4.1% more than in the same period in 2018. According to the company , its market share continues to grow and at the end of March was 21%.

Film director Georgy Danelia died in Moscow at the age of 88, reported Novaya Gazeta . The director's relatives told the publication about this. The farewell ceremony will take place at the Moscow House of Cinema, the date has not yet been determined. Read on vedomosti.ru In February, Danelia was hospitalized with pneumonia, his condition was assessed as stable and serious. Doctors put him in an induced coma to stabilize his breathing.

Taxi aggregator Gett insured passengers against accidents during the trip for 2.5 million rubles. in the Sberbank Life Insurance company, the insurer said in a statement . “Insurance does not affect the cost of travel for passengers. Passengers are insured in case of injury, disability of I-III groups or death as a result of a traffic accident,” the press release notes.

29-year-old Olga Semko, after eight years of working in the personnel departments of Krasnodar companies, decided to create her own recruitment agency. Semko dreamed of recruiting and training top managers, but nothing came of it. Local companies needed unskilled workers - loaders, roofers, packers and harvesters. Semko began looking for foremen and general workers on Avito and local job search sites.

The Association of Trading Companies and Manufacturers of Electrical and Computer Equipment sent a letter to the Ministry of Industry and Trade with a request not to introduce restrictions on household appliances during government procurement. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to a copy of the document. The association includes, in particular, companies such as Samsung, Electrolux, Philips, LG and Ariston.

04 April 2019, 22:50 / Finance The Central Bank is looking for banks operating near major markets The regulator is preparing to strengthen the fight against shadow cash circulation Daria Borisyak The Central Bank will take a closer look at “market” banks / Viktor Drachev / TASS The Central Bank asked banks to report on all service points located on the territory or near large regional clothing and food markets - such a letter was sent to banks by the Department of Financial Monitoring and

The Venezuelan government seeks to protect the country’s energy system from “sabotage” and counts on Russia’s help in this. This was stated by industry vice-president and Minister of Planning of Venezuela Ricardo Menendez, who flew to Moscow for a meeting of the joint high-level commission of the two countries, reports Globovision.

Rostec recommended reducing the number of managers of the United Aircraft Corporation ( UAC ), TASS reports with reference to the state corporation. “As part of the structural analysis of the holding’s work, an excessive number of managers at various levels was identified,” Rostec noted. In this regard, such a recommendation was given, the state corporation explained.