JT Economie - 03/07/2024
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00:00Hello everyone, and welcome to your newspaper of the economic news.
00:10We start our edition today with this new record, 9.4 billion dirhams, it is the amount
00:18of travel receipts in May.
00:20An increase of 11% compared to May 2023, according to the Ministry of Tourism, Crafts
00:27and Social Economy at the end of May.
00:30The sector thus accumulated a total of 41.3 billion dirhams, i.e. a global progression
00:37of 1.6% compared to 2023 and 45% compared to 2019.
00:43Note that these receipts have been growing for two months in line with the forecasts
00:49of the Ministry of Tourism.
00:51In national economic news, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
00:57has reaffirmed its support for the energy transition in Morocco, through the grant
01:02of nearly 150 million dirhams to a company that provides subcontracting services
01:08to the OCP group.
01:09Concretely, the financing of the European Bank will be used to buy new equipment
01:14for the extraction and transport of phosphate to treatment facilities
01:18from several mines, indicates the institution based in London.
01:23Morocco, which is a founding member of the European Bank, became a beneficiary of the
01:27bank's resources in 2012.
01:29To date, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has invested more than 4.6
01:36billion euros in the country through 103 projects.
01:39Direction now Turkey, inflation has slowed to 71.6% on a year in June, against 75.45%
01:49in May, after months of acceleration according to official figures.
01:53The increase in consumption prices fuelled by depreciation of Turkish liqueur has been
01:58established at 1.64% over a month, the price fluctuation concerns health in particular
02:05with 78.5% over 12 months, housing with 94.7%, hotel and restaurant with 90.7% and education
02:16with more than 107.1%.
02:19According to Turkish Central Bank forecasts, inflation will be at 43.5% at the end of 2024
02:26and at 25.5% at the end of 2025.
02:30In international economic news, also the airline Qatar Airways has announced
02:35to have released a net profit record of $ 1.7 billion during its exercise 2023-2024,
02:43an increase of 39% over a year for a progressive turnover of 6%.
02:48This is the best financial performance of its 27 years of history, congratulated the company,
02:54adding to having transported more than 40 million passengers, a 26% increase compared to the previous exercise.
03:01The latter was disappointing with a 21% drop in net profit to $ 1.21 billion,
03:09despite the Qatar hold of the World Cup football.
03:12During the exercise 2021-2022, Qatar Airways had already released a record annual profit of $ 1.54 billion
03:21after two years of losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
03:25We continue our newspaper, in Spain, Microsoft will invest 2.2 billion euros
03:31in a new project of Detail Center in the Aragon region.
03:35This envelope, which is added to other projects already announced in recent years by the American giant,
03:40in this sector, has a total amount of 6.7 billion euros of investments planned by the group in the region.
03:47It comes six weeks after the announcement of Amazon Web Services,
03:51an entity responsible for managing Amazon's cloud,
03:54which unveiled a project of investment of 15.7 billion euros over 10 years
03:59to increase the capacity of its data centers in the same region.
04:02Microsoft had announced in October this new Data Center project
04:06intended to provide computer services dematerialized to companies and European public organizations.
04:13We stay in Spain, where tourist arrivals know a notable progression
04:18with a record figure of 33.2 million tourists between January and May.
04:23According to the National Statistics Institute,
04:26growth over the first five months of the year was recorded on all emitter markets,
04:31with an increase of 13.6% compared to the same period of the previous year.
04:37A historical record was also recorded in terms of expenses of foreign tourists,
04:41which reached 43,200 million euros, an increase of 21.8%.
04:47For the only month of May, the number of tourists arriving in Spain reached 9.3 million,
04:5211.5% more than in May in 2023.
04:57These visitors spent 11,687 million euros in the country,
05:02or 19.7% more than the previous year.
05:07This is the end of our edition today.
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