The article deals with the issues of Eurasian monetary integration. The topic is especially time-relevant today, for the deepening of the integration in Eurasia is really dependent upon the development of European Economic Union regarding a potential currency union. These regional economic relations require a common monetary market. The prospects of the future regional monetary market of the EEU member states have been proven in the article by an identified link between the mutual trade flows and the currency pair trading at the Moscow Exchange. The author strongly believes that the Eurasian monetary market is going to be an additional and transitional step on the path to achieving the integration in banking, financial and monetary spheres of the EEU member states in the unified economic environment. The author founded his conclusions on the hypothesis that this integration stage can be accomplished through the trading of the national currencies of the EEU member states at the Moscow Exchange.

Liberalisation of the global financial market in 90-s last century and early in XXI has resulted in increasing dependence of many countries (both advanced and developing ones) on external financing and significant growth of the sovereign external debts that has become a real threat to the stable development of the world economy. The paper is focusing on the problem of growing external debt of many countries. It has an analysis of the methods aimed at settling and managing the external debt by the state authorities. I paid special attention to the problem of predicting the possibility of the sovereign external debt default. The author concludes that an aggravation of the global external debt problem may become one of the main triggers of a deep financial and economic crisis not only in separate countries or a group of related countries but on a global scale.

To characterise the studied economic wars and aggression, the author of this article uses the prefix “global”, not “geo”. There are at least three reasons for that. First, an economy, but not the territory or political system, is the direct goal of aggression. Second, aggression is carried out regardless of the territorial location of its victim, and aggression, as a rule, is carried out by several entities. That is, it has a global character. Third, the term “geo-economic aggression” is already used to refer to the theory of a new geopolitical struggle. The word “aggression” in the title of this paper it is used in the article because those wars are declared, but global-economic acts are usually committed secretly. Global-economic wars and aggressions have been waged for centuries, and there is no reason to expect them to end soon. For this reason, it is useful to know the explicit and implicit principles, which their initiators and organisers are guided. Ten principles of global economic war and aggression are discussed in this article.

For many years researchers have been arguing on whether active investing is superior to passive investing by giving theoretical and empirical rationale underlying their beliefs. A desire to over-perform passive investing by utilising fundamentally-justified methodology has led to the development of numerous active and semi-active strategies, such as Fundamental indexation established in 2005 by Arnott et. al. In their research, the authors suggested constructing investment portfolios by assigning the weights of each asset concerning the values of its fundamental indicators. This approach has met heavily critique for the lack of theoretical rationale, by not being able to connect the values of selected fundamental indicators to the future performance of the portfolio. In this research, the thesis of passive investing superiority has been challenged by constructing an active investing strategy based on Fundamental Index described by Arnott et al. (2005) - Modified Fundamental Index and testing it on the UK stock exchange companies. The resulted portfolio showed superior performance compared to the cap-weighted index while also having lower risks and higher diversification. Also, I suggested some ideas for further research concerning MFI.

Today the 4th Industrial revolution (also called the Digital revolution) embraces the global economy rapidly, becomes a vital part of almost every sphere of life. In the article, a description of the main aspects arousing the development of the Digital revolution if given; its most vital driving factors, challenges and threats for the present economy are characterised. Also, the ambiguity effect of the 4th Industrial revolution is considered; much attention is paid to the outcomes which can be observed today or with the high degree of possibility will arise in the near future in the most important spheres of life: economic, political and socio-cultural ones. The possible ways of overcoming the risks and reducing the influence of threats caused by the 4th Industrial revolution are described. Overall, the problem of digitalisation is considered from the historical perspective.