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President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion (€6.6 billion) in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities. He also criticised Republicans who want to gut his policies to address climate change. Seeking re-election in November, Biden said, "Despite the overwhelming devastation in red and blue states, there are still those who deny the climate is in crisis." He took specific aim at supporters of former President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement. "My MAGA Republican friends don't seem to th...
Euronews (English)
Paris (AFP) - L'encours des Livrets A et des Livrets de développement durable et solidaire (LDDS) a progressé au mois de mars, mais moins vite qu'en début d'année, selon les chiffres publiés mardi par la Caisse des dépôts (CDC). Dans le détail, les dépôts sur les Livrets A ont dépassé les retraits de 1,53 milliard d'euros le mois dernier, et de 910 millions d'euros pour les LDDS. La somme de ces deux montants dits de "collecte nette", 2,44 milliards d'euros, est deux fois inférieure au mois de mars 2023 (5,99 milliards d'euros), mais constitue un retour aux moyennes pré-Covid pour un mois de m...
AFP (Français)
Music giant Spotify has unveiled its first quarter results for 2024. Spotify, the global streaming platform, has marked a significant milestone in the first part of the new financial year, with a record-breaking 239 million paying premium subscribers. Spotify records positive financial hitsDaniel Ek, the enigmatic Chief Operating Officer said “We’ve talked about 2024 as the year of monetization and we’re delivering on that ambition.“ Total revenue for the Swedish company was up by 20% compared to the previous financial year. Overall income was up by €168 million ($179 million). Ek continued on...
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The volume of Russian assets frozen in Switzerland due to sanctions following the onset of the war in Ukraine has shrunk, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) reported on Tuesday. This is mainly due to the loss in value of investments, for example due to share price declines and exchange rate fluctuations, it said. The volume fell from 7.5 billion Swiss francs ($8.2 billion) to 5.8 billion Swiss francs within a year by the end of 2023. Investigations into funds worth 140 million francs revealed that the legal requirements for a freeze were not met in those cases. Over the course o...
DPA Breaking News
Paris (AFP) - "Modèle économique difficilement soutenable", "lieu de réserves dont le coût a fortement dérapé": la Cour des comptes épingle le Centre Pompidou dans un rapport rendu public mardi. L'institution estime ainsi que la fermeture pour travaux de 2025 à 2030 du Centre national d'art Georges Pompidou, l'un des plus importants musées d'art moderne et contemporain au monde, "constitue une opportunité" pour "rattraper son retard" dans plusieurs domaines, comme le développement de sa fréquentation ou la gestion de ses ressources humaines. Le "modèle économique du Centre Pompidou apparaît di...
AFP (Français)
The European Commission today (April 22) launched a European Energy Efficiency Financing Coalition to mull ways to finance the implementation of EU legislation designed to reduce energy consumption by linking member states with financial institutions. The coalition aims to assist financing related to legislation like the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) adopted in July last year, and the European Buildings Performance Directive (EPBD), adopted in April. Ever since the onset of the European Green Deal, energy efficiency has been a fundamental pillar of the green transition, hailed as a key ena...
Euronews (English)
On Friday (April 19) at approximately 8:10 p.m. EDT, the much-anticipated Bitcoin halving occurred. The event happened when ViaBTC mined block number 840,000, reducing the reward rate from 6.25 Bitcoins to 3.125. Bitcoin remained stable over the weekend, staying within the US$63,000 to US$65,000 range. As of Monday (April 22) at 10:45 a.m. EDT, it was at US$66,243, up 2.2 percent in the past 24 hours and 2.7 percent compared to a month ago. While Bitcoin's price stayed relatively stable, the cryptocurrency's trading volume experienced significant fluctuations through the weekend, with a 45 per...
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The chief investigator in Germany's cum-ex tax fraud scandal, Anne Brorhilker, has resigned and criticized the handling of the case. Brorhilker has asked to be dismissed from her position as a civil servant, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Cologne said on Monday in response to a dpa inquiry. The authority did not comment on Brorhilker's reasons. The senior public prosecutor played a central role in the prosecution of cum-ex tax fraudsters. Brorhilker told German broadcaster WDR: "I have always put my heart and soul into being a public prosecutor, especially in the area of whi...
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The chief investigator in Germany's cum-ex tax fraud scandal, Anne Brorhilker, has resigned and criticized the handling of the case. Brorhilker has asked to be dismissed from her position as a civil servant, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Cologne said on Monday in response to a dpa inquiry. The authority did not comment on Brorhilker's reasons. The senior public prosecutor played a central role in the prosecution of cum-ex tax fraudsters. Brorhilker told German broadcaster WDR: "I have always put my heart and soul into being a public prosecutor, especially in the area of whi...
DPA Breaking News
The financial services industry is in the midst of a talent recruiting crisis. Despite signs that the labor market is finally slackening after years of abnormal tightness, financial companies — and nonfinancial employers looking to staff up their money-minded teams — continue to struggle with retention and recruitment. It’s not that careers in finance are suddenly less rewarding than they have been. They’re still as lucrative as before and retain their appeal for a certain subset of highly motivated, ambitious, and competitive workers. But in the new normal, “appeal for a certain subset” is no...
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