Bloomberg Members of the House committee investigating the US Capitol attack by supporters of Donald Trump promised further revelations, after an ex-White House staffer’s portrayed the former president’s outbursts of rage. “We are following additional leads,†Representative Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation†on Sunday. “I think those leads will lead to new testimony.†...
Read More »US labour demand to show resilience as economy cools
Bloomberg Employers in the US probably added workers at a more moderate yet still healthy pace last month as the jobless rate held near its lowest level in decades, suggesting resilient labour demand even as the economy cools. The government’s latest payrolls tally is projected to show a 273,000 increase for June, based on the Bloomberg survey median. The ...
Read More »Italy readying plan to extend fuel tax holiday
Bloomberg Italy’s government plans further measures to cushion the impact of high energy prices, including extending a fuel tax holiday to the beginning of October, Il Messaggero newspaper reported. The package, likely to be approved in the second half of July according to the newspaper, would be worth around 8 billion euros ($8.3 billion). The cost would be covered ...
Read More »Germany’s union head warns of collapse of entire industries
Bloomberg Top German industries could face collapse because of cuts in the supplies of Russian natural gas, the country’s top union official warned before crisis talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz starting Monday. “Because of the gas bottlenecks, entire industries are in danger of permanently collapsing: aluminum, glass, the chemical industry,†said Yasmin Fahimi, the head of the German Federation ...
Read More »UK house sales slow in May
Bloomberg The number of UK house sales fell in May, the latest sign that the red-hot property market is starting to cool. Sales agreed in May were down 13% year-on-year, according to Zoopla’s UK House Price Index report. The average time to agree a sale is also rising — taking 22 days in May, from 20 days in March. ...
Read More »Volvo to build EV plant in Slovakia
Bloomberg Volvo Car AB plans to build a $1.3 billion electric-vehicle factory in Slovakia, the company said. The new plant will be able to produce 250,000 electric cars per year, part of the company’s goal of reaching annual sales of 1.2 million cars by 2025 and switching its entire lineup to battery-powered vehicles by the end of the decade. ...
Read More »Euro zone inflation rises to fresh record
Bloomberg Euro area inflation surged to a fresh record, surpassing expectations and bolstering calls for the kind of aggressive interest-rate increases being deployed central banks across the world. Driven once more by soaring food and energy costs, consumer prices jumped 8.6% from a year earlier in June — up from 8.1% in May. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg saw a ...
Read More »Hyundai is quietly dominating the EV race
Bloomberg Pipe down for a second Elon, the hottest things in the auto industry — the most electric electrics — now come from Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. Earlier this year, the South Korean carmakers rolled out two new battery-powered cars — the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and its sibling, the Kia EV6 — which promptly tore up the ...
Read More »Google to give cloud customers tools to check carbon footprint
Bloomberg Google’s cloud-computing division is preparing to reveal the carbon footprint for its Workspace apps, including Gmail and Docs, as it builds out its suite of tools to help customers assess their impact on the environment. The move by Alphabet Inc-owned Google Cloud expands measures unveiled last year to help clients measure and reduce the gross carbon emissions of using ...
Read More »Sony takes a leap into PC gaming gear with Inzone brand
Bloomberg Sony Group Corp is launching a new gaming gear brand called Inzone, trotting out headphones and displays for the PC to try and expand its reach beyond the PlayStation. The new brand is the Tokyo-based firm’s effort to capture a slice of the peripherals market, augmenting its plans to release more former PlayStation exclusives on the Windows platform. Sony ...
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