The high supply of the domestic market with the main types of meat contributes to maintaining a stable price level. This was reported to RBC in the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture. “The saturation of the domestic market, combined with growing competition, will help maintain a stable level of wholesale meat prices,” the ministry said. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, as of Feb...
The White House is "in no hurry" to lift sanctionsagainst Venezuela, but is ready to consider a possible easing of restrictive measures if the authorities of this country take steps to establish contacts with the opposition Caracas, Venezuela The administration of US President Joe Biden is not going to lift sanctions on Venezuela, but is ready to consider the possibility of easing them, Reuters re...
The data of a survey conducted by the office of the business ombudsman that 10% of companies will close are of an estimated nature, according to the ministry.98% of recipients of preferential loans retained their staff and can count on their write-off Almost all entrepreneurs from among those who took advantage of the concessional lending program retained employment at their enterprises. This was ...
The main risks for the Russian economy to keep an eye on in 2021 are a possible tightening of sanctions, macro policy imbalances and domestic political volatility, S& analysts sayP Global Ratings Analysts at the credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings, at a webinar on the sovereign ratings of Russia and the CIS countries, named three key risks that could overshadow Russia's rating prospects. Accor...
February 1, 2021, the national debt of Belarus was Br59.7 billion, having increased by Br1.9 billion, or 3.3%, compared to the beginning of the year, reports the Ministry of Finance. February 1, the external public debt amounted to $18.3 billion, having decreased by $0.3 billion (adjusted for exchange rate differences), or 1.4% YTD. In January 2......
Bitcoin rate exceeded the mark of $48 thousand on February 9, then began to decline. As of 12.14, Minsk time, bitcoin rate was $46,916 per coin. Experts told about when bitcoin would update its historical maximum and what could lead to a fall in the quotations. Bitcoin began to appreciate significantly in November. For example, on the night of November 6, the bitcoin price on the Binance exchange ...
January 28, the dollar and euro are rising again at the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange. The U.S. currency gained 1.4%, or 3.6 kopecks at the start of trading. It should be noted that the dollar and euro have gone up in price for the fifth auction in a row. At the start of trading on the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange, the dollar rose by 1.4% to Br2.6179, while the euro appreciated ...
Apple has once again become the most expensive brand in the world, whose value is estimated at almost 263.4 billion dollars, ahead of Amazon and Google. This follows the ranking of the consulting company Brand Finance, published on its website. About this also writes TASS. According to analysts' estimates, the Apple brand lost its lead in 2......
Both houses of the US Congress , the Senate and the House of Representatives, finally approved the results of the elections: Joe Biden is recognized as the winner and the country's next president. The decision was made only at 3.30 am on January 7, Washington time. Recall that on the eve of the meeting was disrupted by supporters of Donald Trump, who do not recognize the elections and stormed the ...
International reserve assets of Belarus amounted to $7,468.5 million (in equivalent) on January 1, 2021, according to preliminary data, reported the press service of the National Bank. According to the guidelines of the monetary and credit policy for 2020, the reserves should have amounted to at least $7.3 billion on January 1, 2......
Moscow and Minsk have agreed on the terms of Russian oil supplies to the oil refineries in Mozyr and Novopolotsk next year. At the same time, Belarus will continue buying raw materials from alternative suppliers by sea. Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said that Belarus had signed contracts for oil supplies in 2......
International reserve assets of Belarus on December 1, 2020, according to preliminary data, amounted to $7376.3 million (equivalent), having decreased in November by $109.2 million (1.5%) after growth in October by $164.2 million (2.2%), according to a press release of the National Bank. Since the beginning of the year the reserves have decreased by 21.5%, or by 2......
Kazakh businessman Kenes Rakishev told Interfax that he intends to sell BTA Bank in Minsk next year. In addition, it turned out that a citizen of Belarus could become a buyer of his Ukrainian bank. BTA Bank, once one of the largest banks in Kazakhstan, found itself in a difficult financial situation due to the machinations of the former owners. A few years ago, the bank passed the banking license ...
"According to the results of the first nine months of 2020, exports (of food - ed.) amounted to $4.2 billion - increased by 161% and increased in monetary terms by $243 million compared to 2019 ... A stable and important partner, I I would even say - the main one (is for Belarus - ed.) ... Russian Federation. We supply 74.5% of all this volume - 3.2 billion (dollars - ed.) to the markets of the Ru...
Some medical and IT specialists from Belarus want to be allowed to work in Poland without obtaining a work permit. We are talking about those specialists who entered the country on a visa with humanitarian purposes or visa marked Poland Business Harbour, intended for companies that want to move their business to Poland. The relevant bill was prepared by the Ministry of Development, Labor and Techn...
The national debt of Belarus as of October 1, 2020 amounted to Br56.9 billion, having increased by Br12.1 billion, or 27%, compared to the beginning of the year, reports the Ministry of Finance. External public debt as of October 1, 2020 amounted to $ 17.6 billion, having increased from the beginning of the year by $ ......
The dollar exchange rate has been growing for the fourth day in a row in trading on the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange. The euro is also strengthening. FINANCE.TUT.BY looked at what exchange rates were set by exchangers. As of 10:39 a.m., in trading on the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange, the dollar rose by ......
The Russian government allowed the export of a number of other oil products to Ukraine under special permits. This is stated in the resolution of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers. In particular, the document expands the annex with the list of goods, which are exported to Ukraine on the basis of permits issued by the Ministry of Economic Development. Now it includes lubricants and bitumen. Since 2....
The Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) imposed a fine on companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream - 2 gas pipeline. Thus, the Russian concern "Gazprom" is fined 29 billion PLN (about 6.45 billion euros) and five other companies - a total of about 178.5 million PLN (about 39.8 million euros), the press service of UOKiK on Wednesday, October 7. In particul...
The average retirement pension in July, according to the National Statistics Committee, was 472.9 rubles (data for August have not yet been released). The last increase at the moment occurred on July 1. FINANCE.TUT.BY looked at what payments on well-deserved rest residents of neighboring countries receive. The average size of pensions in July was 456.8 rubles, for disability - 4......
Belarusbank introduces changes in loans for individuals. This is reported on the bank's website. We are talking about increasing the time for consideration of loan applications, as well as the suspension of new applications for consideration of some real estate and auto loans, as well as consumer loans. The bank reports that from September 1, suspended the receipt of new applications for some type...
The rate of dollar sales by banks took a psychological mark of 3 rubles. At this rate, you can buy American currency in Technobank and Fransabank in Brest. Euro in this regional city in Fransabank - 3.5 rubles, and in Technobank - 3.45 rubles. At the auction at the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange on August 26, the dollar exceeded the historical maximum reached in March this year. The dollar...
Apple shares rose by 1.33% to $468.42 as of 18:04 Moscow time, according to trading data. The capitalization amounted to $2.003 trillion, RBC writes. Until now, the only public company, whose value reached $2 trillion, was Saudi Aramco, a Saudi oil corporation. It took Apple two years to increase its capitalization from $1 trillion to $2 trillion: the company reached the level of $1 trillion on Au...
The refinancing rate and interest rates on operations of liquidity regulation of the National Bank remain at the current level, said the press service of the National Bank. The corresponding decisions were taken by the board of the National Bank of Belarus following the session on monetary policy on August 12th, 2......
Especially for you, we have collected answers to key questions about the bank's activities and the stability of its work, asked by journalists to Nadezhda Yermakova at the end of the first week of the interim administration's office - June 19. Viktor Pazhitok, Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus: – What is the current financial and economic condition of the bank? Do his clients have reason to be conce...
From 1 July 2020, the refinance rate is reduced from 8 to 7.75% per annum, the overnight credit rate from 9 to 8.75% per annum, and the overnight deposit rate from 7 to 6.75% per annum. According to the press service of the National Bank, this decision was taken by the board of the National Bank following the additional meeting on monetary policy on June 22, 2......
The year 2020 will be different from any other year, in spring the dairy industry, as well as a number of other sectors of the agro-industrial complex, experienced peaks in demand caused by the self-isolation regime - consumers were buying up products for long-term storage on a massive scale. Already now, according to estimates, consumption has returned to the level of late 2......
"Gross raw milk production in the Novosibirsk Region is growing at a serious pace, the region produces approximately 2 (two) thousand tonnes of marketable milk every day, and the region is actually in a state of local overproduction crisis," says the statement. According to the Union, the lack of raw milk processing facilities has led to the fact that more than half of Novosibirsk's milk is proces...
The official dollar rate increased by 14.57% (from 2.1036 to 2.41) in January-May 2020. This is the first indicator in the former Soviet Union. According to the comparative analysis of central bank quotes, conducted by BelaPAN on December 31, 2019 and May 31, 2020, the U.S. dollar rate increased by 1.62% in January (seventh place), while in January-February - by 6.44% (second), in the first quarte...
In 2019, according to Deputy Head of the Main Department of Processing Industry, Maria Klimova, 249.8 thousand tons of fatty cheeses were produced (+18.5%), butter production increased by 0.6% to 115.6 thousand tons, while production of dry whey increased by 25.3% to 118.8 thousand tons. At the same time, production of whole-milk products decreased by ......