According to the U.S. intelligence agency, there’s no evidence that the app TikTok is being used for espionage by Chinese intelligence agencies. That’s what the organization’s analysts told president Donald Trump, according to The New York Times. The CIA was recently asked to investigate TikTok’s dangers to national security. This would have led to a two-pronged...
Eurozone manufacturing activity will pick up again this month. British market researcher Markit says this in preliminary figures. It is the first time since the corona crisis that growth has returned. Industrial activity was hit hard by the corona measures, especially in April and May, after which an ever smaller contraction was measured. The purchasing managers index, which shows activity, came...
The silver price has reached its highest level since October 2013, while the gold price is also on the rise. The demand for the precious metals is increasing because investors are looking for safe havens to invest in because of the turmoil caused by the corona crisis. The price of a troy ounce of silver (31.1 grams) climbed to $ 22.83 on Wednesday morning. The silver price is also rising due to...
Car sales in Europe may be a quarter lower this year than initially thought. Due to the corona pandemic, the number of passenger car registrations dropped sharply between mid-March and May. After easing preventive measures against the coronavirus, sales are likely to pick up, but according to European industry association ACEA, that is nowhere near enough to make up for the previous year. For the...
Global oil demand will not return to pre-corona crisis levels until 2022 at the earliest. This was reported by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in a new report on the oil market. Demand for oil has come under severe pressure from the crisis and measures to address the coronavirus outbreak. The organization says that the drop in oil demand was somewhat less than feared due to the lockdown...
Chinese industrial production increased in May compared to a year earlier, but less than expected. This was revealed on Monday from data from the national statistics office. Production grew 4.4 percent year-over-year, with economists generally expecting 5 percent growth. According to experts, the figures show that the Chinese economy is able to cautiously focus after the corona crisis, although...
Consumer confidence in Germany is picking up somewhat from a previous historical decline due to the corona crisis, although German consumers still remain very pessimistic about the economy. Market researcher GfK announced it. The index, which reflects consumer confidence in Europe’s largest economy, stands at minus 18.9 from an all-time low of minus 23.1. In a previous measurement that was...
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB) went into temporary isolation last week after being in contact with a person infected with the corona virus. Insiders say it to the Bloomberg news agency. The ECB declined to comment, but said that Lagarde worked from her office this week. Lagarde is holding preliminary video conferences to discuss the ECB’s measures to tackle...
The number of passengers at Frankfurt airport has fallen sharply due to the crisis surrounding the corona virus. According to airport operator Fraport, the number of processed travelers at the airport plummeted by nearly 75 percent to 331,353 between March 16 and 22. The number of flight movements at Germany’s largest airport shrank by more than 58 percent to 3,960. In freight transport...
French President Emmanuel Macron fully supports the new measures taken by the European Central Bank (ECB) to mitigate the economic damage caused by the corona crisis. Late after an emergency meeting, the ECB launched a new bond buying program worth € 750 billion late Wednesday evening. “Full support for the exceptional measures taken by the ECB,” Macron wrote on Twitter. “It is...