Today, on August 2, an abnormal transaction occurred on the derivative platform Finance Futures. The rate of the quarterly bitcoin futures with momentarily rose by almost 800%, to $99,964.

The European Union is experiencing the largest wave of crisis in the past twenty-five years. The cause of negative economic trends was the global coronavirus pandemic.

It is noted that from April to June this year, 147 large companies with a turnover of more than 50 million euros went bankrupt around the world.

In the second quarter of 2020, the US economy fell by a record 32.9% due to the new coronavirus pandemic, according to the US Department of Commerce.

In the US, Republican senators presented a new package of measures to stimulate the economy in the amount of about a trillion dollars.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the Republican party intends to knock out another trillion on “priority and urgent things” to offset the effects of coronavirus and quarantine...

Russia's income from the sale of precious metal for the first time was higher than the country's earnings from gas supplies. Moscow earned 3.6 billion dollars on gold exports in April and May.