Almeria, renowned as the ‘orchard of Europe’, has once again demonstrated its success in cucumber production, with exports reaching a record-breaking 667,550 million kilos in 2023. This has generated a staggering €996 million in revenue for Spanish firms, firmly establishing the province as a leader in the market, accounting for 72 per cent of national […]
Americans are down on the economy and believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Yet the metrics of economic health are good, and our friends and rivals in Europe and Asia face more troubling prospects.
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The Chinese government's report for the first quarter of 2024 was a mixed bag of cause for optimism and systemic issues that continue to drag on economic growth.Newsweek charts based on the latest data from China's National Statistics Bureau illustrate three key bellwethers of the world's second-largest economy.GDPAccording to the new data, China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5.3 percent year over year, slightly higher than Q4 2023 and beating many economists' expectations.Though...
Open source is at a crossroads. For the past few years, venture capital has directly or indirectly paid for many of the contributors and much of the infrastructure it needed to keep going. That was until the past 24 months or so, when funding started to slow down, leading to less internal development or funding resources going toward open source. Companies suddenly had to justify themselves, have a real business model, cut costs, and fundamentally start to return something to investors. On the...
Six months of conflict have also taken a heavy economic toll.
The German private sector returned to growth at the start of the second quarter, the latest HCOB ‘flash’ PMI® survey compiled by S&P Global showed, driven by a solid rise in services business activity. Although manufacturing remained in contraction, the rate of decline in factory production eased
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China’s economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter of the year with help from policies and stronger demand, though signs of weakness in the troubled housing market persisted. The world’s second-largest economy expanded at a 5.3 per cent annual pace in January-March, beating analysts’ forecasts of about 4.8 per cent, data released on […]
Electric cars are a key part of Europe’s green transition plans but the road ahead remains littered with obstacles with 10 years to go before a crucial milestone. Despite the fact that the sale of new petrol and diesel cars will be banned in the European Union as of 2035, sales of plug-in “zero emission” […]
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and stakeholders in Canada have concluded plans to meet and brainstorm on possible solutions to the worsening insecurity and economic challenges in Nigeria. According to a statement on Monday, the meeting scheduled for May 3, 2024, at Hilton Garden Inn, is being facilitated by the Read More