In case you missed it, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) is being panned by the Twitterverse, if not by regulators and ethicists, for a series of stock transactions conducted by her husband Paul. “The week before the House Judiciary Committee voted on reigning in big tech,” reported Fortune in July, “Speaker Nancy …
Read More »Don’t buy crypto! Russian central bank warns against investing in volatile digital currencies, citing risk of ‘enormous’ losses
As part of an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda published on Monday, Elvira Nabiullina, chair of the country’s Central Bank, argued that investments in any kind of currency were always risky. “Losing in the foreign exchange market is much easier than it is to make money,” she said. “The most dangerous …
Read More »US ban on investing in Chinese companies has the opposite effect, it strengthens China & diverts money from Wall Street
President Joe Biden on Thursday expanded a Trump-era ban on American investments in Chinese companies that Washington believes to be associated with China’s “military-industrial complex.” The list includes 59 companies and covers swathes of sectors from aerospace industries, to railways, to nuclear power, to oil, telecommunications and, of course, semiconductors. …
Read More »Investing in bricks: How Lego has become a lucrative target for global crime syndicates
The global pandemic has seen all sorts of unusual happenings, but French police’s recent announcement that they were pursuing a gang of sophisticated international Lego thieves was particularly bizarre. Most of us think of Lego as little more than plastic building blocks for kids, but there’s an entire subculture that’s …
Read More »Capital outflow from funds investing in Russia has accelerated sharply
From funds investing in Russian assets (including the funds, oriented not only on Russian) for the week to may 8, 2019 was derived from $74 million against an outflow of $43 million a week earlier. These data provided the Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR), an organization that tracks the inflow …
Read More »American companies thinking about investing serious money to Ukrzaliznytsia
Also Omeljan discussed with the world Bank and IMF perspectives of infrastructure development American company General Electric and Greenbrier has planned substantial investments in the railway sector of Ukraine in autumn this year. This was announced by Minister of infrastructure Volodymyr Omelian. “Agreed: General Electric company Greenbrier and ready for …
Read More »“Ukrhydroenergo” investing in the development of the power system more than 4.5 billion
At the enterprises-suppliers will be employed more than 9,000 jobs. 26 may in Novodnestrovsk of Chernivtsi region began construction of the second stage of the Dniester pumped storage power plant (PSPP). Poured the first cubic meter of concrete in the structural elements of the station. Also was laid the symbolic …
Read More »NBU wants to allow individuals investing abroad
NBU intends to allow individuals to conduct limited investments outside Ukraine. The national Bank of Ukraine (NBU) intends to allow individuals to exercise within a certain limit investments outside Ukraine, including trading in financial instruments on foreign stock exchanges and conduct other operations. This was reported the Deputy head of …
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