... prices tend to catch up with rising business expenses. This factor becomes particularly pronounced by mid-year, although it is expected that by autumn the effects of the accumulated gap ("shrinkage of the handicap") will ease somewhat. Export Attractiveness. High conditions on external markets make fuel exports more profitable than domestic sales. World prices for oil and petroleum products remained relatively high in 2025, and the exchange rate of the national currency is not as strong as ...

... reductions and increased exports of energy resources from the U.S. to Europe has been achieved. The energy component of the agreement benefits both sides: the EU gains additional guarantees for gas and oil supplies, while the U.S. expands its markets and attracts capital as exports grow. The positive trade signals have translated into increased market confidence regarding stable demand. Concurrently, the U.S. administration continues to ramp up pressure on Moscow. President Trump has significantly shortened ...

... expansion of real use cases—in payments and cross-border transfers—also enhances the fundamental demand for stablecoins. For example, entrepreneurs can accept payments in USDC for export services, bypassing expensive bank transfers, making USD Coin an attractive tool for international settlements. These market factors (trading volumes, integration into payments) do not change the price of USDC (which remains around $1), but they influence liquidity, turnover, and the market capitalization of the stablecoin....

... Thanks to this digital platform, a kind of ecosystem of the digital economy will be formed. And it will promote mutually beneficial cooperation between its participants (Ganichev & Koshovets, 2021). Having the opportunity to develop, this ecosystem can attract not only those participants who were originally planned by the developer company, but also others. At the same time, there are possibilities of organizing international cooperation. The development of a multi-sided platform for instant purchases ...

... favors investments in "green technologies" and the internet. Google stands out as the most successful investment of its kind in history, generating significant returns for numerous stakeholders. The brainchild of Sergey Brin and Larry Page attracted billions of dollars from various venture funds. Naturally, such high-yield investments are rare, and at the time, Google revolutionized the industry. In the context of the venture capital market in Russia, it began gaining traction in the mid-1990s,...