Міністерство фінансів оприлюднило результати діяльності державних банків за перший квартал 2020 року. У пресслужбі відомства пояснили, що дані з’явилися із запізненням через карантинні обмеження.

«За підсумками І кварталу 2020 року банки державного сектору отримали прибуток у розмірі 11,1 млрд грн (на 37% більше, ніж за відповідний період минулого року (8,1 мільярда гривень), з нього 94%, або 10,4 мільярда гривень – прибуток акціонерного товариства комерційного банку «Приватбанк», – повідомляє міністерство.

Збільшення розміру активів державних банків Мінфін пояснює зростанням обсягу міжбанківських кредитів на 25% (тобто на 22 мільярда гривень), фінансових активів, що рефінансуються Нацбанком на 13%, або на 19 мільярдів, та обсягу кредитів і заборгованості клієнтів на 5% (12 мільярдів гривень).

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«Звітний квартал також характеризувався зростанням коштів клієнтів (на 6%, або на 35 мільярдів гривень), яке відбулось внаслідок збільшення обсягів коштів фізичних осіб – на 9%, або на 30 мільярдів гривень (зростання коштів юридичних осіб склало 0,5%, або 1,2 мільярда гривень)», – йдеться в заяві відомства.

2 червня Мінфін повідомив про розміщення номінованих у національній валюті облігації внутрішньої державної позики (ОВДП) зі строком погашення 3, 6, 9 місяців та 1 рік.
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With the coronavirus threat, the US is taking an urgent look at vote-by-mail in this presidential election year
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China raised its emergency warning to its second-highest level and canceled more than 60% of the flights to Beijing on Wednesday amid a new coronavirus outbreak in the capital. It was a sharp pullback for the nation that declared victory over COVID-19 in March and a message to the rest of the world about how tenacious the virus really is.
New infections spiked in India, Iran and U.S. states including Florida, Texas and Arizona as authorities struggled to balance restarting economic activity without accelerating the pandemic.  
European nations, which embarked on a wide-scale reopening this week, looked on with trepidation as the Americas struggled to contain the first wave of the pandemic and Asian nations like China and South Korea reported new outbreaks.
Chinese officials described the situation in Beijing as “extremely grave.”  
“This has truly rung an alarm bell for us,” Party Secretary Cai Qi told a meeting of Beijing’s Communist Party Standing Committee.  
After a push that began June 14, the city expects to have tested 700,000 people by the end of the day, said Zhang Qiang, a Beijing party official. About half of them were workers from the city’s food markets, nearby residents and close contacts.
The party’s Global Times said 1,255 flights to and from the capital’s two major airports were scrapped by Wednesday morning, about two-thirds of those scheduled.  
Since the virus emerged in China late last year and spread worldwide, there have been more than 8.1 million confirmed cases and at least 443,000 deaths, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Experts say the true toll is much higher, due to the many who died without being tested and other factors.
The U.S. has the most infections and deaths in the world, with a toll that neared 117,000 on Wednesday, surpassing the number of Americans who died in World War I.
Arizona reported a daily high of nearly 2,400 new infections for a total of more than 39,000, while in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott insisted the state’s health care system could handle the fast-rising number of new cases and hospitalizations.  
Tuesday marked the eighth time in nine days that Texas set a new high for COVID-19 hospitalizations at 2,518. State health officials reported 2,622 new cases.
“It does raise concerns, but there is no reason right now to be alarmed,” Abbott said.  
Texas began aggressively reopening its economy May 1. Abbott noted that Texans may have become lax in wearing masks or practicing social distancing and urged people to stay home as much as possible.
Canada and the U.S. extended to July 21 a deal to keep their border closed to nonessential travel, with many Canadians fearing cases arriving from the U.S.
As the U.S. struggles with the first wave of the virus, other countries where it was widely thought to be under control faced disturbing developments.
In South Korea, authorities reported 43 new cases amid increased public activity. Authorities said 25 of them came from around Seoul, where hundreds of infections have been linked to nightclubs, church gatherings, e-commerce workers and door-to-door salespeople. Twelve of the new cases came from international arrivals.
Not long after declaring itself virus-free, New Zealand saw a reemergence of the virus. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern assigned a top military leader to oversee the border quarantines after what she described as an “unacceptable failure” by health officials.
Two New Zealand citizens who had returned from London to see a dying relative were allowed to leave quarantine before being tested. After the women tested positive, New Zealand began tracing their potential contacts to ensure the virus is contained.
Their cases raised the specter that international air travel could ignite a new surge of the virus just as countries seek to boost devastated tourism industries.
China also limited other travel around the capital, keying in on hot spots. Beijing had essentially eradicated local transmissions until recent days, with 137 new cases since last week.
On Wednesday, the city of 20 million raised its threat level from 3 to 2, canceling classes, suspending reopenings and strengthening requirements for social distancing. China had relaxed many lockdown controls after the Communist Party declared victory over the virus in March.
India, with the fourth-highest caseload after the U.S., Brazil and Russia, added more than 2,000 deaths to its tally after Delhi and Maharashtra states included 1,672 previously unreported fatalities. Its death toll of 11,903 is now eighth-highest in the world. India has reported 10,000 new infections and more than 300 deaths each day for the last two weeks.
Iran’s latest outbreak  comes after a major Muslim holiday last month and as travel and lockdown restrictions were relaxed. Health Minister Saeed Namaki said he realized the extent of the challenge when he took a domestic flight.  
“Many people have become careless, frustrated with wearing masks,” he said. “They did not observe (social) distancing in the flight’s seating and the airliner’s ventilation system was not working.”
In Europe, which has seen over 184,000 virus-related deaths, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the country will hold a ceremony July 16 to honor its more than 27,000 dead.  
German officials said 400 people at a large western meatpacking plant had tested positive for COVID-19. The industry has seen several outbreaks in recent weeks, prompting the government to impose stricter safety rules.
Denmark’s health minister urged anyone who joined a large racial injustice protest on June 7 to be tested “whether you have symptoms or not” after one person in the crowd was found to be infected.
“As long as we have the virus in Europe and in Denmark, it will flare up. We are dealing with a very, very contagious disease,” said Health Minister Magnus Heunicke.
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Addressing weeks of growing national outcry over police violence, U.S. President Donald Trump Tuesday signed an executive order on policing. The order came alongside separate efforts from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress focused on police reforms, and the Supreme Court’s decision not to re-examine the legal doctrine that shields law enforcement officers accused of misconduct. White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has this story.
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China’s capital imposed new coronavirus restrictions Wednesday to try to control a new outbreak, while Brazil reported a record daily increase in confirmed cases and the number of deaths in the United States surpassed those the country suffered in World War One. Among the steps taken in Beijing were canceling dozens of domestic flights, requiring stricter social distancing efforts and making those entering some residential areas undergo temperature checks and registration. There have been at least 137 new cases in Beijing since late last week linked to a wholesale food center. Brazilian health officials reported Tuesday 34,918 new confirmed cases during a 24-hour period.  The country now has more than 900,000 total cases, trailing only the United States. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has dismissed the severity of the virus while urging businesses to reopen. His Chief of Staff Walter Braga Netto said Tuesday, “There is a crisis, we sympathize with bereaved families, but it is managed.” “Brazil has 23% of all cases and 21% of all deaths in our region, and we are not seeing transmission slowing down,” Pan American Health Organization Director Carissa Etienne said in a briefing Tuesday.  “That is, the cases in almost all countries in Latin America, and a few in the Caribbean, are rising” Peru has also been hit hard by the coronavirus, reporting Tuesday its death toll had surpassed 7,000 people. And in Honduras, President Juan Orlando Hernandez announced late Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with COVID-19.FILE – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez holds a news conference at the Presidential House in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Oct. 3, 2019.The United States has more than 2.1 million confirmed cases and about 117,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University statistics. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Wednesday she assigned a top military leader to oversee “all quarantine and managed isolation facilities” after two citizens who arrived from Britain to visit a sick relative were allowed to leave quarantine without being tested, and later tested positive. The development came more than three weeks after the country’s previous positive test, and the prime minister said she could not allow New Zealand to squander the gains it has made in stopping the spread of the virus. “This case represents an unacceptable failure of the system,” Ardern told reporters.  “It should never have happened, and it cannot be repeated.” As work continues in numerous labs around the world toward the creation of a coronavirus vaccine, the World Health Organization on Tuesday welcomed initial clinical results that showed the drug dexamethasone can help treat those who are critically ill with COVID-19. A University of Oxford team gave the drug to more than 2,000 critically ill COVID-19 patients, and reported that among those who were so sick they needed a ventilator to breath the drug reduced deaths by 35 percent. Patients who needed less help, only oxygen to help them breathe better, the drug reduced deaths by about 20 percent. The researchers reported no benefit from the drug for patients who were mildly sick. 
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced the U.S. Open tennis tournament is on schedule to be held this year in Queens, N.Y. from Aug. 31 to Sept. 13 without spectators due to health concerns associated with the coronavirus.  Cuomo said the United States Tennis Association (USTA) “will take extraordinary precautions to protect players and staff, including robust testing, additional cleaning, extra locker room space and dedicated housing and transportation.”  The USTA said they are “incredibly excited” by Cuomo’s approval to push ahead with the U.S. Open.  “We recognize the tremendous responsibility of hosting one of the first global sporting events in these challenging times, and we will do so in the safest manner possible, mitigating all potential risks,” said Mike Dowse, USTA Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director.Dowse also described “tennis as the ideal social distancing sport,” and “a boost for the City of New York and the entire tennis landscape.”  The green light for the U.S. Open makes it the first of the Grand Slam tournaments to be held after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.  The French Open, originally scheduled for May 2020, was moved to September and London’s famed Wimbledon tournament was cancelled.  
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Brazil reported nearly 35,000 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday the same day a top government official declared the outbreak there was under control.  The 34,918 total for Tuesday is the highest daily number reported so far in the South American country. Brazil, the world’s No. 2 coronavirus hotspot after the United States, is fast approaching 1 million cases. Experts say the true number is likely higher due to patchy testing. Brazil also registered 1,282 COVID-19 deaths since its last update on Monday, the Health Ministry said, bringing confirmed fatalities in the country to 45,241. Brazil trails only the United States for the most cases overall. As of Tuesday, more than 2 millions Americans have been infected by the virus, and more than 116, 125 have died, according to Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, wearing a face mask amid the new coronavirus pandemic, stands amid supporters taking pictures with cell phones as he leaves his official residence of Alvorada palace in Brasilia, May 25, 2020.Doctors at Britain’s Imperial College London say they will start testing a coronavirus vaccine this week. Three hundred healthy people will be given shots. The vaccine uses synthetic parts of a genetic code based on the coronavirus. The body’s own cells will then make copies of a protein that scientists hope will trigger an immune response. French President Emmanuel Macron Tuesday toured a Sanofi laboratory – the company that caused an uproar in France last month after it said it would put the United States first in line for its COVID-19 vaccine because of the money the U.S. invested in vaccine research.  Sanofi later backed down from that statement and promised to make the vaccine available to everyone when it’s ready. Macron announced the government would invest 200 million euros, or more than $225 million, to help French laboratories develop a vaccine so France is less dependent on foreign companies for vaccines and other medicines. Macron said coronavirus vaccines should be thought of as a “common good” for humanity and not dependent on who can pay. Meanwhile, France is about to reopen the one symbol that says “This is Paris” above all others – the Eiffel Tower. Tickets to the tower go on sale Thursday and officials expect to reopen to tourists next week. The tower has been closed to visitors since March, but the top of the tower will still be off-limits for now. The elevators will remain out of service and visitors will be allowed to climb the stairs only as high as the second floor.  The director of the tower says he hopes the entire structure can be reopened by August.  
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Wall Street ended Tuesday with big gains after the government reported the biggest monthly jump in retail sales in history, combined with news from Britain of a potential coronavirus treatment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 527 points – a 2% gain. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes were also 2% higher. At one point Tuesday, the Dow was up more than 700 points after the government reported that retail sales in May grew at a record 17.7%, as more and more businesses emerge from COVID-19 lockdowns. “Looks like a big day for the stock market and jobs!” President Donald Trump tweeted.  Investors were also cheered by news from Britain that a widely available steroid can help critically ill coronavirus patients and cut hospital deaths by a third. That news also sent European stocks soaring, with major indexes in London, Frankfurt and Paris all up 3%.  Asian markets also bounced back from big losses Monday.  Tokyo’s Nikkei index was up 5%, while Sydney was 4% higher and Hong Kong climbed nearly 3%. 
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London and Beijing are engaged in a heated dispute over plans to make it easier for some Hong Kong residents to emigrate to Britain. The British government announced the proposal in response to China’s attempt to impose a new security law on the territory, following violent anti-government protests. Hong Kong is meant to be semi-autonomous from Beijing — but critics say the new law threatens that status. Henry Ridgwell reports from London.Camera: Henry Ridgwell
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Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here​. Daily DebunkClaim: “They’ve come out of this at a level that’s really inconceivable. By the way, the regular flu, other flus, other things, SARS or H1N1, any of them, if you look at the young people they were affected like everybody else, but for whatever reason with respect to COVID, the numbers are very, very low.” — President Donald Trump, June 15.Verdict: MisleadingRead the full story: 
We’re beginning to understand the mechanism behind this relatively common symptom.
— Scientific American, June 13
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Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here​. Daily DebunkClaim: Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus.Verdict: MisleadingRead the full story at: 
Researchers fear that breakthroughs from abroad will be too slow or inequitably shared to benefit the global south.
— Nature, June 12
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На українському міжбанківському валютному ринку після кількох днів посилення американської валюти змінився тренд. Як свідчать дані Finance.ua, станом на 12:40 котирування становлять 26 гривень 73–75 копійок за долар.

Національний банк України встановив опівдні довідкове значення курсу 26 гривень 73 копійки за долар це на 11 копійок менше за офіційний курс на 16 червня.

За даними аналітиків сайту «Мінфін», на користь гривні грає проведення сьогодні аукціону з продажу ОВДП, наближення періоду виплат компаній до бюджету та потенційний продаж валюти «Нафтогазом». У разі надмірної пропозиції долара надлишок валюти викуповує Нацбанк, який уже забрав із ринку 20 мільйонів доларів за ціною 26,74 гривні.

У широкому коридорі 26,5–27 гривень за долар курс перебуває вже понад два з половиною місяці – від кінця квітня.
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