Industrial companies in the eurozone further increased their prices in August. Compared to the same month in 2020, their products became 13.4 percent more expensive. Prices rose sharply, especially at energy companies. Now that the recovery from the corona crisis is going fast, shortages of materials, parts and labour […]
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Investment fraud caused damage of more than 13 million euros in the first nine months of this year, says the Fraud Helpdesk. This concerns both people who accepted an advertisement and victims who were approached by email or telephone with different products. For the whole of 2021, the organization […]
The dire fuel shortages at many petrol stations in the UK could continue for weeks. According to the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), the British petrol station industry association (PRA), it will take even longer before the situation normalizes and petrol stations have sufficient supplies again. Due to the shortage […]
German inflation rose above 4 percent for the first time in 28 years in September. This is according to an initial estimate by the German Federal Statistical Office. The annual currency depreciation amounted to 4.1 percent. A change in the VAT rate partly caused a sharp increase in inflation. […]
Rolls-Royce only wants to build and sell electric cars by 2030. BMW’s luxury car brand is currently conducting test drives with the first all-electric car that the company plans to mass-produce. This model, called Specter, is expected to go on sale in the last quarter of 2023. Car brand […]
The widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, spends billions of dollars on climate change. An amount of 3.5 billion dollars will be invested in a foundation that will help disadvantaged communities affected by climate change. The climate foundation is called Waverley Street Foundation. The money will […]
The Tokyo stock market closed sharply higher on Friday. Japanese investors returned after a day off and caught up after Thursday’s brisk recovery in global markets. Hopes that the global economic recovery will not be derailed by the debt problems of the Chinese real estate developer China Evergrande Group […]
European companies are becoming increasingly concerned about China’s new economic course. They see “worrying signs” that the country’s economic focus is increasingly inward, the president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said. Jörg Wuttke believes that there are “significant doubts about the country’s future growth”. The […]
More than a decade after creating the audio-sharing platform, Uber expects to make a profit from its core business for the first time. It concerns the gross result (EBITDA) in the third quarter, without many costs. Expanding globally, Uber has burned billions of dollars in recent years with the […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating the video game publisher Activision Blizzard. The SEC wants to know whether the company has provided investors with timely notices about the issues surrounding sexual harassment and unequal treatment of male and female employees. According to the business newspaper The Wall […]
