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Financial Times - Aug 23
The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not validated these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Headings - AstraZeneca threatens to move UK vaccine producing to US - Alzheimer's drug authorized by UK regulator but too costly for NHS - Nestlé chief executive Mark Schneider to step down - Gatwick airport waits for approval to expand as service booms - Deutsche Bank settles with 60% of claimants in more than decade-long Postbank case Introduction - AstraZeneca has actually warned it might relocate its vaccine manufacturing site from Merseyside to Philadelphia amid a deadlock in settlements with the UK Labour government over strategies to cut state aid assured to the task. - A drug that can slow the decline in patients with early-stage Alzheimer's disease will not be available to NHS clients in England, the healthcare costs guard dog has ruled, in spite of the UK medicines regulator authorizing it. - Nestlé revealed that president Mark Schneider was stepping down, and will be succeeded by company veteran Laurent Freixe, following a period of underperformance at the world's largest food maker. - UK's Gatwick airport stated it has been experiencing among its busiest summers, as growing demand for air travel, along with brand-new long-haul routes, helped drive up guest growth by nearly 8% in the first half of the year. - Deutsche Bank has reached settlements with 60%. of claimants in a more than decade-long conflict over its. acquisition of Postbank.
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SAS cabin crew go on strike in Norway as wage talks collapse
Cabin crew at Scandinavian airline company SAS in Norway went on strike on Friday to press their need for better wage and working conditions after wage talks broke down overnight, labour unions said. Some 120 SAS staff members went on strike at first and the conflict is expected to grow in the coming days when more staff members are set up to join the picket line, the two labour unions associated with the talks stated. It was not instantly clear how the strike would impact SAS flights. Norway's government-appointed wage arbitrator said he had been not able to bridge the divide in between the two sides. There was no option that could be anticipated to be advised by both celebrations, mediator Mats Wilhelm Ruland stated in a statement.
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British Company - Aug 23
The following are the leading stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not attest their accuracy. The Times - Serco has actually landed a $320 million agreement with the U.S Area Force. - Gatwick airport is experiencing what it calls among its busiest summers, with 19.9 million travelers taking a trip through its 2 terminals during the first half of the year. The Guardian - British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been validated dead by search and rescue authorities after his private yacht sank off the coast of Sicily throughout a violent storm, according to authorities. - Unions are to push the government for pay remediation deals that would award above-inflation pay rises to public sector employees who have suffered a years of real-term income cuts. The Telegraph - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is to consider restoring the ditched High Speed 2 (HS2) rail routes north of Birmingham after a Labour-commissioned study suggested a. sweeping program of facilities costs. Sky News - Former Post Workplace software provider Escher Group, which. delisted from the junior AIM market in 2018, is dealing with. Singer Capital Markets on a potential IPO.
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China trials freight drone with greatest payload capacity yet
Chinese air travel logged a. new milestone with a test flight of an unmanned civilian drone. capable of carrying approximately 3.2 metric tons of cargo, as drone. makers trial larger and larger drones in anticipation of future. domestic demand. The unmanned SA750U developed by a drone maker based in. southern Hunan province finished a 40-minute test flight on. Thursday early morning, the official Hunan Daily reported on Friday,. adding the aircraft can run as high as 7,300 metres (24,000. feet) and fly as far as 2,200 kms (1,367 miles). Manufacturers worldwide's leading drone-making country are. increase test flights as China loosens up airspace curbs and. present rewards to develop a low-altitude economy which. authorities say could become a 2-trillion-yuan ($ 280 billion). market by 2030, a four-fold gain from 2023. The test flight of SA750U came rapidly on the heels of the. trial of a drone previously this month by a Sichuan-based. maker that boasted a payload capability of 2 tons. Two. months back, state-owned Aviation Market Corp of China tested a. drone with a capacity of just 700 kg. Cargo drones promise much shorter delivery times and lower. transport costs, Chinese market insiders say. They can likewise. remove or land at websites that lack traditional air travel. infrastructure, such as rooftop areas in greatly built-up. cities. China has actually already started industrial deliveries by drone. In. May, a company under delivery giant SF Express started delivering. fresh fruit from the island of Hainan to Guangdong. In a report this year, the government identified the. low-altitude economy as a new growth engine for the first time,. with vertical movement viewed as a new efficient force in areas. such as traveler and freight transportation.
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Iceland volcano appears, spewing lava water fountains
A volcano in southwestern Iceland emerged on Thursday, the meteorological office said, spraying redhot lava and smoke in its sixth outbreak given that December. Research studies had actually shown lava accumulating underground, triggering cautions of new volcanic activity in the area situated simply south of Iceland's capital Reykjavik. The most current eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula, home to some 30,000 people or nearly 8% of the country's total population, ended on June 22 after gushing fountains of molten rock for 24 days. The eruptions show the obstacle dealt with by the island country of almost 400,000 individuals as researchers caution that the Reykjanes peninsula could deal with repetitive outbreaks for decades and even centuries. Because 2021, there have been 9 eruptions on the peninsula, following the reactivation of geological systems that had actually been dormant for 800 years. In action, authorities have actually built man-made barriers to redirect lava streams away from crucial facilities, including the Svartsengi geothermal power plant, heaven Lagoon outside day spa and the town of Grindavik. Grindavik, home to one of Iceland's essential fishing ports and almost 4,000 people, has actually been mainly deserted since late last year when residents were first bought to evacuate. Volcanic outbreaks in the Reykjanes peninsula are so-called crack eruptions, which do not normally interrupt air traffic as they do not cause big explosions or significant dispersal of ash into the stratosphere. Iceland, which is roughly the size of the U.S. state of Kentucky, boasts more than 30 active volcanoes, making the north European island a prime location for volcano tourist - a. specific niche segment that attracts thrill hunters.
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NATO air base in Germany raises security level due to 'possible risk'
The NATO air base in the German town of Geilenkirchen has raised its security level based on intelligence information indicating a prospective threat, it said late on Thursday. All non-mission essential personnel have been sent home as a. preventive measure, the base stated in a statement on the. social media platform X, without giving information. The safety of. our personnel is our top concern. Operations continue as prepared. A spokesperson for the NATO base in Geilenkirchen stated. he did not have more details than published in the post. It was the 2nd time the base real estate NATO's fleet of. AWACS surveillance aircrafts raised the security level after an. occurrence last week when a military base in neighboring Perfume was. momentarily sealed off as authorities investigated possible. sabotage of the water system. The same day, the base in Geilenkirchen likewise reported an. attempted trespassing occurrence that triggered a full sweep of the. properties. With regard to the suspected sabotage at the base in. Perfume, the German military later offered the all-clear , saying test outcomes had actually revealed that the tap water was not. polluted. NATO has actually warned in the past of a campaign of hostile activities. staged by Russia, including acts of sabotage and cyberattacks. Russia has actually frequently accused NATO of threatening its security. In June, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stated. the Western military alliance saw a pattern progressing and that. recent attacks were a result of Russian intelligence ending up being. more active. A number of occurrences on NATO territory have actually been treated as. suspicious by experts over the last few years, among them the severance. of an important undersea cable linking Svalbard to mainland Norway. in 2022.
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US Postal Service looks for to conserve $30 billion over 10 years with shipment, other changes
The U.S. Postal Service stated on Thursday it is aiming to implement modifications that it price quotes will save the company approximately $30 billion over the next decade. Proposed changes include the adjustment of pick-up and drop-off times and faster delivery of some classes of mail - all of which will be gone over at a virtual conference, the Postal Service said. The conference will be held next month to look for feedback from stakeholders, consisting of the mailing and shipping community, the Postal Service said. It stated the modifications will not go into impact till after the Nov. 5 basic election and the 2024 peak season in between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. As we integrate our transportation, processing, and delivery network to rationally series the flow of mail and plans by releasing enhanced operating practices in our upgraded facilities network, we expect to enhance service dependability, decrease cost and grow our company, said Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. The Postal Service, which accumulated more than $87 billion in losses in between 2007 and 2020, stated the modifications are expected to conserve about $3 billion every year. It included that the initiative will likewise reduce the number of truck trips, resulting in the company reducing its carbon emissions.
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'Indescribable' team mistakes led to Sicily shipwreck, yacht maker says
A series of indescribable,. unreasonable errors by the crew led to the shipwreck in which. British tech business owner Mike Lynch and 6 others died previously. today, the private yacht maker's CEO told Reuters on. Thursday. The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long (184-foot). superyacht with 22 people aboard - 12 travelers and 10 crew -. capsized and sank on Monday within minutes of being struck by a. pre-dawn storm while anchored off the coast of northern Sicily. The boat suffered a series of indescribable, unreasonable. mistakes, the difficult taken place on that boat ... however it went. down because it took on water. From where, the investigators. will inform, Giovanni Costantino stated in an interview. Costantino helms The Italian Sea Group, which. includes Perini Navi, the Italian high-end yacht maker that. built the Bayesian in 2008. The vessel has actually been refitted twice,. last in 2020, but not by Perini. The CEO eliminated any design or building mistakes, which. he called unlikely after 16 years of hassle-free navigation,. consisting of in more extreme weather condition than on Monday. He blamed the Bayesian's team for the incredible error. of not being gotten ready for the storm, which had actually been revealed in. delivering projections. This is the mistake that sobs out for. revenge, he said. Costantino said travelers should have been summoned out of. their cabins and put together at a point of security while the boat. was being gotten ready for the storm by bring up the anchor,. closing doors and hatches, reducing the keel to increase. stability and other steps. 6 out of 12 guests died in the shipwreck, and 5. bodies were found inside the wreck. Emergency situation services are still. attempting to locate the body of the last missing person, Lynch's. child Hannah. Had right procedures been followed, all passengers would. have gone back to sleep after one hour and the next early morning. they would have gladly resumed their wonderful cruise,. Costantino said. Another private yacht anchored near the Bayesian escaped unhurt. The captain of the sunken luxury yacht and other crew members have not. commented publicly on the disaster, while Italian district attorneys. examining it are because of hold a press conference on Saturday.
U.S. manufacturing output has flat-lined, dampening diesel usage: Kemp
U.S. manufacturing production has actually barely increased since before the pandemic, which describes why diesel intake stays anaemic and has not rebounded in line with expectations at the start of the year.
Production increased by a faster-than-expected 0.9% in May after seasonal adjustments, however that followed back-to-back decreases of 0.4% in April and 0.1% in March, according to price quotes compiled by the Federal Reserve.
Output was basically the same compared to a year earlier and there had actually been no considerable net development considering that 2018.
U.S. production has actually rebounded from the trade war with China in 2018 and the pandemic in 2020 but output is no higher than before those interruptions.
The Federal Reserve determines production in volume terms but the same minimal development is also apparent in value-added procedures prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Inflation-adjusted production value-added deserved $2.29. trillion in 2023 up from $2.21 trillion in 2018, an increase of. simply $77 billion over five years.
Genuine production value-added has increased at a substance. yearly rate of just 0.7% since 2018, well below whole-economy. growth of 2.1% and economic sector development of 2.3%.
For all the talk about a manufacturing renaissance, the. sector's share of whole-economy value-added was up to 10.2% in. 2023 from 11.0% in 2018.
Chartbook: U.S. manufacturing production
More than three-quarters of all diesel and other distillate. fuel oils are consumed by road and rail freight hauliers also. as industrial users.
Given flat-lining manufacturing activity, it is not a surprise. the volume of extract fuel oil supplied to the domestic. market has actually revealed nearly no growth since 2018.
The total volume of distillates from both petroleum and. renewable sources supplied to U.S. clients was up by simply. 42,000 barrels per day (b/d) or 1% in 2023 compared with 2018.
Distillates supplied from petroleum sources in fact fell by. 213,000 b/d (5%) as more fuel was provided by biodiesel and. renewable diesel fuel.
Distillate usage is also being hit by steady. conversion of residential and business heater from. heating oil to natural gas.
On top of that, the exceptionally moderate winter in 2023/24. took a more bite out of extract usage over the last. 12 months.
Given that the start of 2024, the production sector lastly. appears to have been taking out of a long but shallow downturn. in 2022 and 2023, but the recovery has actually been too weak to offer. much of a boost to diesel use.
U.S. manufacturing production is not growing quick enough to. balance out the loss of petroleum need to biofuels and performance. enhancements.
The U.S. Energy Details Administration is not. anticipating any considerable net growth in distillate consumption. in 2024 or 2025 ( Short-term energy outlook, EIA, June 11).
The U.S. manufacturing sector's torpor is among the factors. that have triggered international petroleum consumption to undershoot. forecasts at the start of the year and resulted in the draw back in. oil costs.
Associated columns:
- U.S. refining margins plunge as fuel stocks climb (June 13,. 2024)
- U.S. makers in halting recovery but diesel usage. lukewarm (June 7, 2024)
- Sustainable fuels take bite out of U.S. diesel usage. ( May 10, 2024)
- U.S. manufacturers battle to grow once again without interest. rate cuts (March 5, 2024)
John Kemp is a market expert. The views expressed. are his own. Follow his commentary on X https://twitter.com/JKempEnergy
(source: Reuters)