Day: November 22, 2021

Die Welt: German companies complained about forced savings due to gas prices – due to the rise in energy prices. This is reported by Die Welt with reference to a study by the Union of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK). Rapidly rising electricity and gas prices pose a threat to the German economy. Even small and medium-sized companies face significant cost increases. Many companies can cope with a difficult period only by saving on investments of any kind. “The picture the companies have painted is very disturbing,” said Peter Adrian, President of DIHK. “High electricity and gas prices are already depriving a third of companies of the financial capacity for the necessary future investments.” In the survey, 46 percent of companies reported that rising prices could jeopardize their competitiveness. Another 11 percent said they were forced to postpone investments in the climate agenda due to high prices for

CNN: Thousands of Starbucks New Jersey Customers May Have Tested Hepatitis A A Starbucks New Jersey employee was identified hepatitis A, which could have infected thousands of clients. This is reported by CNN. According to the newspaper, the said coffee shop is popular with local residents, more than 600 people visit it a day. The state health department closed the coffee shop and recommended that all visitors get vaccinated against the virus no later than 14 days after contact with the employee. Since several thousand people could have become infected, the US health services provided the region with additional supplies of hepatitis vaccine A. In three days, more than 800 citizens were vaccinated against the virus. The employee himself is currently undergoing treatment, he is suspended from work. On October 24, it was reported that an unexpected source of a deadly disease – melioidosis – had been found in the

The Fitch rating agency called the situation with Rusnano's debts a test for the state states to incur financial losses. This was stated to RBC by the senior director of the international rating agency Fitch Konstantin Anglichanov. On November 19, at a meeting with creditors, the management of Rusnano announced the accumulated disproportionate debt and the need to adjust the financial model. On the same day, the Moscow Exchange, at the request of the Central Bank, stopped trading in all Rusnano bond issues worth 71 billion rubles. Later, the Central Bank named the reason for such actions – the regulator tried to prevent insider deals amid information about the company's problems. On November 22, trading resumed, but bonds fell significantly. “We are now seeing a test of how applicable this premise was ( to the fact that the only shareholder of Rusnano, represented by the state, would support the company

Former editor-in-chief of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper Igor Bugaev died at the age of 88 Former editor-in-chief of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper Igor Bugaev died at the age of 88. This was reported on the website of the newspaper. According to the preliminary version, the cause of the death of the journalist was a heart attack. Other details are not disclosed. “Igor Borisovich, who did not strive to become widely known during his lifetime, left behind a lot that will remind him of him for a long time not only to friends and colleagues, but also to everyone who is not indifferent to the present and the future of Russian culture, art and journalism, “the publication noted. Bugaev worked at Moskovsky Komsomolets from 1958 to 1968. After that, he became assistant to the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU, Viktor Grishin. In the city committee, he

Head of FMBA Skvortsova: WHO recommended using the Russian test system for COVID-19 Russian test system for COVID-19 in the World health organizations (WHO) recommended using it as a reference, said the head of the Federal Biomedical Agency (FMBA) Veronika Skvortsova, TASS reports.