Новости за 25.01.2024

CHICAGO, Illinois: After CFO Vikram Luthar was placed on administrative leave following an internal investigation into the accounting practices of the company's Nutrition segment, this week, shares of global grains merchant Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) plunged 24 percent, the largest one-day decline since 1929.

BERLIN, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- For residential construction in Europe's largest economy, 2023 was "another lost year" with falling orders, the Federation of the German Construction Industry said on Thursday.

CHICAGO, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange was basically unchanged on Thursday on higher-than-expected economic data.

BERLIN, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The shortage of teachers at Germany's elementary schools is set to end in the coming decade due to lower birth rates, according to calculations published by Bertelsmann Stiftung on Thursday.

The French president, who will be chief guest at a New Delhi military parade on Friday, toured the city of Jaipur with the Indian PM

A union's fourth work stoppage since November kicked off on Tuesday and is set to last six days

Darya Trepova has been sentenced to 27 years behind bars for the assassination of military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky

With the economy surging, New Delhi has been buying crude from whomever offers the lowest price, an Oilprice report notes

Microsoft will lay off 8% of the workers at its gaming unit

Microsoft is cutting around 1,900 employees in its gaming unit Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing an internal memo from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer.

The layoffs, which will eliminate around 8% of Microsoft Gaming's 22,000 staff, are part of a larger "execution plan" that will reduce "are

The Swiss government has adopted an anti-Russian stance on European security, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said

An Israeli attack killed at least 20 people and wounded another 150 at a traffic roundabout in Gaza City on Thursday as Palestinians waited for humanitarian aid, Hamas health officials said.

Baku, Azerbaijan - Efforts to free investigative journalist Hafiz Babali from prison in Azerbaijan failed last week when the Baku Court of Appeal denied a motion to release him to house arrest.

LONDON/WASHINGTON - Britain and the United States on Thursday said they had sanctioned four senior Houthi officials for their roles in supporting or directing attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy grew at an unexpectedly brisk 3.3% annual pace from October through December as Americans showed a continued willingness to spend freely despite high interest rates and price levels that have frustrated many households.

Pentagon - The United States and Iraq will start talks to end the U.S.-led international military coalition in Iraq and transition to a bilateral partnership, continuing the process that has been stalled by the Israel-Hamas war.

JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the country's central bank, on Thursday decided to maintain its repurchase rate at the current level of 8.25 percent as the country's inflation rate continued to fall.

WASHINGTON D.C.: On January 19, U.S. President Joe Biden canceled student debt worth nearly US$5 billion for an additional 74,000 borrowers, with over half serving for more than ten years as public servants, such as teachers, nurses, and firefighters.

WASHINGTON D.C.: In a strong show of bipartisan support for a mainly revenue-neutral measure, on January 19, U.S. lawmakers advanced a bill, known as the "Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024," which aims to provide improved tax breaks for businesses and low-income families.

ABIDJAN, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Ivory Coast will no longer be able to export untraced cocoa to the European Union (EU) starting from 2025, according to Fadiga Mamadou Deye, the delegate of the Coffee-Cocoa Council (CCC) for the Ivorian region of Haut-Sassandra.

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said that its foreign exchange reserves had increased by 243 million U.S. dollars.

KUNMING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- As of 8:04 p.m. Thursday, all missing people in a landslide that struck a mountainous village in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Monday had been confirmed dead, bringing the death toll to 44, according to local authorities.

NAIROBI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Kenya on Thursday put up for sale an infrastructure bond worth 70 billion shillings (about 430 million U.S. dollars) -- the largest ever in recent terms -- as the government ramps up borrowing from both domestic and external sources.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2.5 percent in 2023, with the fourth quarter increasing at an annual rate of 3.3 percent, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis reported on Thursday.

HONG KONG, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's value of total exports of goods increased by 3.3 percent quarter on quarter in December 2023, while the value of imports of goods rose 2.6 percent, official data showed Thursday.

ANKARA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Turkish central bank on Thursday raised its key interest rate by 250 basis points to 45 percent, in line with market expectations.