Business

The Russians started to apply to credit institutions, statements about closing of deposits and the issuance of cash from accounts after the announcement of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin innovations on the distribution of personal income tax on income from deposits and investments in bonds. A letter about the Association of banks of Russia sent the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, says RBC.

Refineries in the United States and Western European countries began to refuse to buy Saudi oil at a discounted price, reported the newspaper the Wall Street Journal, citing sources. With a similar problem faced in UAE.

Economists predicted a new crisis on the background of the pandemic COVID-19, the collapse in oil prices and the slowdown in business activity. About it writes RBC with reference to the interviewed experts.

Well-known Russian economists wrote an open letter to the authorities, where he criticized the idea of "dead week" and called for a more active anti-crisis measures. Among the signatories — working abroad Sergei Guriev, Konstantin Sonin, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, and the rector of the Russian economic school Ruben Enikolopov. To save Russia from disaster, they offer to quarantine them, thus financially support the business, to protect health care workers, to ensure the availability of food and medicines, in large quantities to test people on coronavirus, not to hide the true information from the companies. “MK” talked with the authors of the letter.

In the conditions of isolation associated with the epidemic of coronavirus, the heads of the countries "the Big twenty" have arranged an emergency meeting on which tried to develop a plan for the salvation of the world economy in the conditions of a pandemic. The result of these negotiations was the decision on the allocation of five trillion dollars to remedy the situation. The amount is unprecedented, however, it may not be sufficient and the reasons are not only economic. Why this is one of the last opportunities to stop a global crisis, and what are the chances that they will act, "MK" told the doctor of economic Sciences, chief researcher of the Institute of USA and Canada studies, Vladimir VASSILYEV.