... inflation, customers are less willing to purchase durable goods, making gasoline and diesel, de facto, essential goods (at least for car owners). The profitability of this segment depends on whether Wildberries can purchase fuel on the exchange, where prices are significantly lower than in wholesale. Additionally, in Russia, unlike many European countries, excise duties are paid by oil refineries, not gas stations, which also benefits fuel retail. Overall, the company is desperately looking for new opportunities to increase the profitability of its core business. This is rational behavior, but a real improvement in the situation is unlikely to occur ...

... will not exceed $500 per thousand cubic meters in August 2024, after which they will begin to correct, despite the approaching winter season. MOSCOW, August 9 - PRIME. The risk of reduced gas supplies through the "Sudzha" gas measurement station (GMS) has led to an increase in gas prices. The September futures for natural gas at the TTF hub rose by 4% on August 8, 2024, reaching $423 per thousand cubic meters. It is likely that the price increase will also be observed on August 9, but the average monthly prices will not exceed ...

....3% for AI-92 and 7.6% for AI-95 since early June. Summer and early autumn are peak demand seasons for gasoline, during which retail prices usually show the most significant growth. Moreover, over the last two years, it was at the end of summer that gas station prices caught up with the national average inflation level. At the beginning of June, Anton Rubtsov, the director of the Oil and Gas Complex Department of the Ministry of Energy, reported that the Russian market was fully supplied with gasoline and diesel ...

... refineries. Tereshkin believes that oil companies will keep gasoline and diesel prices in check until the end of the year, but a price surge may occur in early 2025 due to the lifting of the export embargo and the annual excise tax increase. Fuel prices at gas stations will continue to rise slowly, following inflation, according to Kotov. He believes that gas stations have returned to a "relatively normal" level of profit due to the drop in wholesale prices. Kaufman expects a slowdown in retail price ...

... channels: the EU has established stable supplies of diesel fuel from the Middle East, Asia, and the U.S. to replace lost Russian volumes. As the expensive fuel batches purchased by European importers last winter are consumed and replaced with cheaper ones, gas stations in the EU are gradually beginning to lower retail prices. However, due to high taxes and duties, gasoline in Europe remains expensive for end consumers—with prices in the largest EU economies holding in the range of €1.6–1.8 per liter at gas stations. Overall, the global oil products market is ...