In March this year, the United States imported oil and petroleum products from Iran totaling 1.03 million barrels. This is evidenced by data from the US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA).
This delivery was the second since 1991, when the United States stopped importing Iranian oil. According to the EIA, another supply of oil and petroleum products from Iran was registered in October 2020. Its volume is 1.11 million barrels.
It is worth recalling that in May 2018, the United States withdrew from the agreement with Iran on the nuclear program and again imposed sanctions against Tehran, including secondary ones, i.e. against other countries doing business with Iran.
SoftServe is expanding its presence and opening new office spaces in four cities — Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Uzhhorod, and Odesa. They are available for 250 people working in these regions as well as other employees. The coworking in Vinnytsia where SoftServe has around 50 employees is already fully operating. Odesa is the next — office space […]
COMBINE ROAD AND COMFORT Shell is launching a new coffee brand Shell Café all over Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (to replace […]
Radisson Hotel Group is proud to be the world’s first hotel group to make all meetings and events across 400+ hotels in its EMEA portfolio carbon negative. For every event taking place at its participating hotels, Radisson Hotel Group will offset double the carbon footprint, to ensure that every meeting has a positive impact on […]
During trading on Monday, October 11, the price of a barrel of Brent oil rose by 2% to $ 84.01. She reached this mark for the first time since October 2018. US WTI oil rose by $ 1.62 to $ 81.3 – the highest price since 2014, according to Reuters. It is noted that Brent […]
The agreement on a single corporate tax rate of at least 15 percent was signed by 136 states, which account for more than 90 percent of world GDP. The agreement is aimed at combating tax evasion by international corporations. The initiative was also signed by countries that were initially opposed to tax reform, such as […]
The savings of Ukrainian citizens outside the banking system are estimated at $ 30-35 billion. This estimate was given by the chairman of the National Bank Kyrylo Shevchenko during the Kyiv Economic Forum. There are different estimates of the “gray” economy. We in the National Bank believe that this is up to 30% of GDP. […]
During the week, the National Bank of Ukraine bought $ 228 million on the interbank foreign exchange market. At the same time, the central bank did not sell currency on the interbank market. So the NBU continued to buy currency on the interbank market, the bank increased it compared to last week ($ 15 million) […]
The new Tesla factory in Berlin may release the first electric cars next month. CEO Elon Musk stated this. Speaking at the plant, Musk said he hoped to get the green light to begin production in the coming weeks. The last consultation on public concern about the plant ends on October 14, after which the […]
Microsoft`s shares fell slightly on Monday before the opening of trading due to the news of the failure the deal of buying the popular application TikTok in Chinese ByteDance. Through the support of the deal by President Donald Trump, Shares of Oracle, which is considered №1 candidate of buying TikTok increased by 10% before the […]
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During the pandemic, Delta lost three-quarters of its revenue over the same period last year. The company can avoid layoffs if management and the trade unions will be able to conclude an agreement to cut costs, and the White House will continue to provide subsidies to airlines. Currently, the airline employs 11,200 pilots. Back in […]
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The American company Pfizer and the German BioNTech announced that their vaccine against COVID-19 is 91.3% effective for at least six months after the second dose of the drug. “Pfizer and BioNTech today announced updated results of an analysis of 927 confirmed symptoms of COVID-19, which were monitored in a key third phase of the […]
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PIMCO and other investors appealed to the court with the case against Citigroup, due to the fact that the bank is not able to control the mortgage loans, resulting in $2.3 billion of losses. Citigroup will respond in a New York´s state court in Manhattan for actions that not justified the confidence of investors. Now […]
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Facebook is considering the introduction of face recognition technology in smart glasses, which is currently working, writes CNBC, citing the words of the head of hardware Andrew Bosworth. According to him, this feature can be added if customers need it. He added that if people do not need this technology, then use it in the […]
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The offices and apartments of the A-95 consulting group were searched on Tuesday, July 13. The company’s director Serhiy Kuyun connects them with exposing materials about the BRSM-nafta gas station network. “Today in our apartments and the office of the consulting group A-95 were searched, equipment was seized. The last thing they said:” The police […]
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The US Federal Reserve maintained the base interest rate at 0-0.25%, as expected by the market. This is stated in the message of the financial regulator following a meeting of its leadership. “The Committee has decided to keep the target rate range for federal funds at 0-0.25% and considers it appropriate to maintain this range […]
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Latvian airline AirBaltic will resume flights to Ukraine on December 1 and will start a new flight Vilnius-Kiev to Boryspil airport. The schedule includes departures twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays on Airbus A220-300. Flights from Vilnius will depart at 09:00, from Kiev – at 11:15. “Vilnius Airport can be used for transit to […]
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American electric car maker Tesla Inc ended the first quarter of this year with record profits, but the company’s revenue was slightly worse than market forecasts. This is stated in a press release from Tesla. Thus, the company’s net income in January-March was $ 438 million, or $ 0.39 per share, compared to $ 16 […]
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“Petrikov milk” dairy complex got the status of a pedigree farm on breeding Holstein cattle in the area of ??dairy cattle breeding, said the press service of the UkrAgroCom and Hermes-Trading, which owns the complex. This status is assigned to the order of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on December 30, […]
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Half of the 2 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine that the American company Novavax intends to develop, will be manufactured at its Czech plant Praha Vaccines, said on Tuesday at a press conference the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babiš, who visited this enterprise near Prague. “Novavax wants to produce 2 billion coronavirus […]
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The video conferencing service Zoom has announced the creation of its venture fund Zoom Apps Fund, its volume will be $ 100 million, this is stated in a press release from the company. Startups in the fund’s portfolio will receive from $ 250,000 to $ 2.5 million. In this way, the company wants to motivate […]
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The current state of the financial sector is assessed as the best in recent years, and no negative changes are expected in the next six months. The heads of financial institutions of Ukraine gave the corresponding assessment and forecast. This follows from the results of a survey on systemic risks in the financial sector of […]
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AirBaltic will launch a direct flight from Vilnius to Kyiv on October 6. The presented schedule shows that flights will be performed three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays to Boryspil Airport. Herewith departures from Vilnius are scheduled for 6:55, return from Kiev – at 09:10. Travel time will be 1:00 20 minutes. […]
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In Ukraine Boyden Global,one of the leaders in the market of personnel recruitment and provision of consulting services will begin work in the nearest future.Executive Search multi-national company. According to Aleksei Dolgikh,the head of the Ukrainian Boyden office: “the working group of specialists is already created and ready to work”. The former director of Pedersen&Partners […]
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The British government hopes that in the coming weeks the relevant authorities of the country will register two vaccines against coronavirus. Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister announced it in an interview with Sky News on Monday, November 30. “So far, no vaccine has been approved for use by the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency. However, […]
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