Plans by the US Federal Reserve to raise rates have reduced the interest of institutional investors in palladium, finversia.ru writes. The total assets of all exchange-traded funds are at a level below 900 thousand troy ounces, which is the ...
The German government worsened the country's GDP growth forecast for 2018 to 1.8% from the previously expected 2.3%. For 2019, the forecast has also been lowered to 1.8% from 2.1%. The German economy ended 2017 with an economic growth of 2.2%. ...
US senators drafted a bill providing for the allocation of $1 billion to assist European countries in ensuring their energy security and reducing dependence on Russian energy. As Deutsche Welle reported, the authors of the bill under the heading ...
Industrial production in the UK increased by 0.2% in August from July, ONS reported. Compared with the July rise of 0.4%, growth in August slowed. Analysts had predicted a rise of 0.1%. In annual terms, the volume of industrial production grew ...
The number of the richest people in China, whose wealth is at least 2 billion yuan, in 2018 decreased by 11% compared with 2017 at a record decline rate for 20 years, finversia.ru reported. The number of Chinese yuan billionaires this year ...
The material damage from the natural disasters that took place in the world over the past 20 years, which claimed the lives of 1,300,000 people, amounted to over 2 trillion 900 billion dollars, the report of the United Nations Office for Disaster ...
For the period from June to August 2018, the UK economy increased by 0.7% compared to the previous three months, data from the ONS showed. UK GDP in August increased by 1.5% in annual terms, slowing growth rates compared with a rise of 1.7% ...
A spokesman for American Proctor&Gamble, one of the leaders in the global consumer goods market, told Reuters that the company was exempted from 25 percent duties imposed by the United States on steel imports from Japan and Sweden. Proctor&Gamble ...
In September, producer prices in the United States increased by 0.2% compared with August, when the figure unexpectedly fell by 0.1%, the country's Department of Commerce reported. The rise in prices in August coincided with the forecasts of ...
Oil prices on Wednesday accelerated their negative movement, the fears related to the approach of Hurricane Michael, which is expected to be the strongest for the state of Florida in the last 14 years, did not prevent the fall. Official data ...
In September, consumer prices in Greece increased by 1.1% year-on-year, which was the highest since November 2017, the Hellenic Statistical Authority reported. In August, inflation was at 1%. The acceleration of inflation in the country has ...
According to the US Department of Commerce, wholesale inventories in the country increased by 1% in August after rising 0.6% a month earlier. In annual terms, the growth of reserves amounted to 5.3%. Expected further growth in wholesale stocks ...
In Hong Kong, they plan to solve the problem of housing shortages by adding artificial islands, on the territory of which they will build on a large scale. According to Demographia, the property market in Hong Kong over the past 8 years is ...
The suspension of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico due to the approaching hurricane “Michael” raised concerns about a possible shortage of fuel in the market and pushed oil prices to further increase. It is expected that hurricane “Michael” ...
Experts at Macquarie Research predict Tesla shares will grow by more than 70%. Macquarie assigned a “better than market” rating to the American automaker, noting that investors should regard Tesla as a technology company, not as a car manufacturer. ...
The economic optimism index in the US rose in October to 57.8 points from 55.7 points a month earlier, data from the Investor’s Business Daily and TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics showed. The growth of the index, which is noted ...
Ford’s chief financial officer, Bob Shanks, said in an interview with NBC News that the American automaker, as part of a strategic plan to improve the company's operations, intends to make the staff more compact by reducing the number of jobs. ...
The capitalization of the Chinese Internet company Tencent has decreased by 38% since January 2018, when the value of its shares jumped 100-fold after the initial public offering of shares in Hong Kong in 2004. This is the most significant ...
A number of large institutional investors, such as Blackstone and H&F private equity funds, plan to file a joint application for the acquisition of Nielsen Holdings, which provides data and marketing information, the Financial Times reports, ...
Sales of German automaker Volkswagen in September fell by 18.3% compared with the same month last year and amounted to 485 thousand cars. Such a sharp drop in sales was caused by the introduction of a new procedure for testing passenger cars ...