MEDI1TV Afrique : JT Economie - 08/10/2024
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00:00Hello and welcome to this new edition of your newspaper in Morocco.
00:14The bank liquidity deficit has exceeded 130 billion dirhams in the first 8 months of 2024.
00:22According to a note from Tijali Global Research, the bank liquidity deficit is growing at the
00:28rate of more than 44 billion dirhams in one year at 133.5 billion dirhams, reaching a new historical high.
00:37In addition, the same source emphasizes that the decision of Statucco of Bancal Marib
00:42during its third Monetary Policy Committee of the year 2024, even if in contrast to the market consensus,
00:50has not induced significant pressure on the monetary market.
00:54According to the same source, the monetary rates have slightly stretched to more than 2.73% this week against 2.7% a week earlier.
01:04Interbank rates, meanwhile, remain in line with the director rate at 2.75%.
01:11On top of the economic news, also, the intra-Arab exchanges of goods and services
01:17during the year 2023 have dropped from 3.7% to 3.4 billion dollars.
01:25According to a new report published by the Arab Society for Investment and Credit Guarantee,
01:32this decrease is mainly attributed to a drop in exports of 9.2% reaching 1.8 billion dollars,
01:41while goods trade fell 7.2% during the same period, reaching 2.6 billion dollars.
01:50As for imports of goods, an increase of 1.6% has been recorded to reach 1.2 billion dollars,
01:59while the commercial surplus of goods has decreased by 50.8% to reach 232.1 billion dollars during the previous year.
02:11Let's now look at Italy, which brought its public deficit to 3.4% of gross domestic product in the second quarter of the year,
02:21against 5% during the same period of 2023 as a result of an increase in tax revenues.
02:28The public administration has accumulated 247.4 billion euros in tax revenues over these three months,
02:36against 242.5 billion a year before, while expenses were 1.3% to 265.5 billion.
02:46According to the National Statistical Institute, tax pressure has risen to 41.3% of GDP,
02:53or 0.7 points more than in the second quarter of the previous year.
02:58Over the first six months of the year, the public deficit reached 5.8% of GDP,
03:04against 7.9% during the same period in 2023.
03:08The Italian government had previously announced that it wanted to bring back the public deficit
03:13as early as 2026 below the 3% GDP ceiling set by the European Commission's Stability Pact.
03:22Let's now look at the price of the Brent oil barrier, which surpassed the symbolic $80 mark on Monday.
03:32Many speculative operators have bet massively on the price of black gold until mid-September,
03:39but the strikes of Iran on Israel and the long-awaited return of the latter have tightened the market.
03:45Investors fear an Israeli attack on Iranian oil production infrastructure.
03:51Iran is one of the top ten oil producers and has the third-largest proven oil reserve in the world,
03:58behind Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.
04:01According to the International Energy Agency, Iran produced 3.4 million barrels per day in August.
04:07OPEC Plus has maintained its plan to increase production to 2.2 million barrels per day,
04:14from December.
04:17Now let's look at France, where the amount of seized goods from crime is breaking records each year.
04:24In 2023, the French Customs seized or identified 163.2 million criminal goods.
04:32According to the National Anti-Fraud Office, the French Customs saw their means to be considerably strengthened
04:39by the law of July 18, 2023, to fight new threats and adapt their legal means
04:45to fight effectively against financial infractions.
04:49According to the Ministry of Justice, European-scale capital laundering has risen to 188.5 billion euros,
04:58or 1.3% of the GDP of the European Union.
05:02This is the end of our edition today. Excellent follow-up of the programs on our antenna.
05:15Transcribed by ESO, translated by —