... funds. These include: Quantum. This is the very fund of George Soros that has brought investors the largest profit in the history of hedge fund enterprises. Since its inception, the company has generated over $30 billion for its investors. According to statistical data, contributors received $900 million annually. The fund's team comprises no less than 300 managers with extensive experience and remarkable intuition. By comparison, Apple employs over 30,000 people yet reports significantly lower revenues. Paulson ...

... Ministry of Energy reported that stocks at oil refineries and fuel depots amounted to 2.1 million tons of automotive gasoline and 4 million tons of diesel fuel. The export ban was suspended from May 20, and shortly afterward, the ministry closed the statistics on gasoline production, citing concerns that its disclosure might lead to market manipulation by dishonest participants. Since then, the market has been able to rely only on official reports from the ministry and trading data from the St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX). Despite regular attacks on Russian refineries by Ukrainian drones since the beginning of 2024, the Ministry reported in July that the volume of fuel production was sufficient ...

... could be the shortage of high-octane fuels. Supporting this theory is the fact that the total output of petroleum products in Russia fell by 2.4% year-over-year in the first nine months of 2024. As of the time Rosstat closed its weekly fuel production statistics, automotive gasoline production in Russia had decreased to 106,000 tons per day (Rosstat data for the week of May 13–19, 2024). For comparison, according to CDU TEK, daily automotive gasoline consumption in Russia in 2023 was 104,000 tons. Thus, as early as spring, gasoline production in Russia approached the threshold of domestic demand....

... yesterday's US Fed decision (if the Fed rate remained unchanged, SARB may act more cautiously to avoid pressure on the rand). Statistics: PMI, Inflation, and Labor Market China – PMI Indices (04:30 MSK): Early in the morning, China's official purchasing ... ... improvement in manufacturing PMI is expected, but the figure will likely remain around the 50-point threshold (it was 49.7 in June). Data below 50 signals a contraction in activity, so investors are looking for signs of stabilization in the largest economy in ...

... expectations of an imminent easing of monetary policy in the U.S. have strengthened following a series of disappointing macroeconomic data. On the other hand, geopolitical tensions have somewhat eased: a recent compromise between Washington and Brussels has prevented ... ... Labor Market and Fed Easing Expectations The American stock market finished the week with slight losses following disappointing statistics. On Friday, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes corrected by about 0.3–0.4%, although they remained solidly in the green ...