National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 04/07/22
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of July 04
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
Pope Francis would like to visit Kyiv and Moscow after his trip to Canada, which is scheduled for the end of July.
In an interview with Reuters, Francis said that first of all he would like to visit Moscow in order to serve the “cause of peace” and persuade the Russian leadership to end the war against Ukraine.
“I would like to go (to Ukraine), and I wanted to go to Moscow first. We exchanged messages about this because I thought that if the Russian president gave me a small window to serve the cause of peace. The first thing is to go to Russia to try to help in some way, but I would like to go to both capitals,” the Pope said.
Initial registrations of new passenger cars in June of this year amounted to 2.9 thousand units, which is 14% more than in May of this year, but three times (or 67%) less than in the same month of last year, according to “Ukravtoprom”. According to information on the association’s website, Toyota became the leader of the month (as in May of this year and June last year) with the registration of 456 cars, which is 11% more than in May 2022 (but 2.8 times less than in June 2021). ).
Second place belongs to Renault, which increased sales by 14% by May 2021 (but reduced by three times by June 2021) to 327 units.
The third most popular brand was the German brand Volkswagen, whose new cars were purchased by 263 Ukrainians – 56% more than in May. According to the statistics of Ukravtoprom, in June 2021 the brand was ranked 7th in the ranking with 384 cars registered, and in May 2022 it was fourth (169 cars).
Hyundai has the fourth result – 172 units, which is 7% more than in May, and closes the top five in June with a drop of 10% Skoda (in May it was the third in the ranking), whose car was chosen by 168 buyers.
Next in the ranking are Mitsubishi with 162 car registrations (in June 2021, 10th place with 367 cars), BMW with 120 cars (13th place with 260 units), Nissan with 102 car registrations (391 cars a year earlier and 6 place) and Mercedes with 94 units. (14th place with 248 cars).
The bestseller of the month was Renault Duster with 168 registrations.
According to Ukravtoprom, in total, in January-June, 17.8 thousand new cars received their first registration numbers, which is 2.7 times less than in the first half of 2021.
As reported, in 2021, the market for new passenger cars, according to Ukravtoprom, grew by 21% to 103.3 thousand units.
Oil prices could soar into the stratosphere and reach $380 per barrel in a worst-case scenario in which Russia cuts fuel supplies in response to Western sanctions, J.P. analysts predict. Morgan Chase & Co.
The Russian Federation can afford to cut production by 5 million barrels per day without causing excessive harm to the economy, Bloomberg quoted bank analysts as saying. Moscow may take such a measure due to various possible measures by the West, including imposing a ceiling on the price buyers pay for Russian oil.
At the same time, the consequences of such actions for the rest of the world will be catastrophic. A 3 million bpd production cut would push Brent oil prices up to $190 per barrel, while in a worst-case scenario, if production falls by 5 million bpd, prices will soar to $380 per barrel, experts say.
“The most obvious and likely risk associated with imposing a price cap is that Russia may decide not to participate in this scheme and instead retaliate by cutting exports,” the analysts wrote. “It is likely that the government may retaliate by cutting production to harm the West. The lack of supply in the world oil market is playing into the hands of Russia.”
September futures for Brent crude on the London ICE Futures exchange by 10:23 Moscow time are trading at around $111.8 per barrel, futures for WTI oil for August on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) by this time are about $108.6 per barrel. barrel.
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