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Russia plans to halt natural gas flows to Germany again.
Gazprom, Russia’s government-owned power large, is anticipated on Wednesday to briefly cease pure fuel flows by way of Nord Stream 1, the vital pipeline that connects Russia to Germany, elevating recent worries about European power provides.
Gazprom, Russia’s government-owned power large, stated the cutoff was needed for upkeep, though the German authorities and power executives take into account it to be politically motivated. After three days, Gazprom stated, the pipeline will restart “offered that no malfunctions are recognized.” It stated flows would resume at 20 p.c of capability, the identical lowered degree it has offered since late July.
Power markets shall be intently watching to see if provides do resume as scheduled. In July the pipeline was shut down for 10 days, once more for upkeep.
Like different European international locations, Germany is dashing to fill pure fuel storage amenities earlier than winter as insurance coverage towards cutoffs by Russia. The Russian authorities seems to be attempting to hinder that effort in addition to create uncertainty over future fuel deliveries.
To date, the outcomes have been blended. German fuel storage amenities have reached greater than 83 p.c of capability and seem prone to meet the federal government’s objective of 90 p.c by Nov. 1.
However, the cutoffs of flows and worries about provides within the coming months have pushed pure fuel costs in Europe to report ranges in latest weeks, inflicting a few of the financial harm that the efforts to retailer up fuel are geared toward stopping.
Gazprom is just not solely aiming at Germany. On Tuesday, Engie, a big French utility, stated that Gazprom had knowledgeable the corporate that it was slicing fuel provides over a contract dispute. “Russia is utilizing fuel as a weapon of struggle and we should put together for the worst case state of affairs of an entire interruption of provides,” France’s power transition minister, Agnes Pannier-Runacher, informed France Inter radio, Reuters reported.
On Monday, Uniper, a German utility that’s one among Europe’s largest pure fuel consumers and suppliers, stated that it had already exhausted a 9 billion euro credit score facility from the German authorities and was asking for €4 billion extra.
Uniper stated that with contracted provides from Gazprom down 80 p.c, it was having to purchase fuel available on the market at considerably larger costs to provide prospects, resulting in losses that it stated exceed €100 million a day.
Uniper agreed to a bailout in July that would come with the federal government taking a stake within the firm, however additional steps together with approval from the European Union are wanted earlier than it may be put totally in place.
The corporate’s chief govt, Klaus-Dieter Maubach, stated in a press release that Uniper was working with the German authorities on “a everlasting resolution to this emergency.” In any other case, he warned, the corporate wouldn’t be capable to fulfill what he known as its “system-critical operate” as a provider of pure fuel to municipalities and factories.
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Visa, Google, JetBlue: A Guide to a New Era of Antitrust Action
President Biden’s top antitrust enforcers have promised to sue monopolies and block big mergers — a cornerstone of the administration’s economic agenda to restore competition to the economy.
Below are 15 major cases brought by the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission since late 2020 (including cases against Google and Meta initially filed during the Trump administration just before Mr. Biden took office).
The government has won several but not all the cases. And with only a few months remaining for the current administration, the number of suits is climbing, as regulators go after dominant companies in tech, pharmaceuticals, finance and even groceries.
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Miners at Pinyon Plain uranium mine, Arizona.
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Video: Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates for the First Time in Four Years
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Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates for the First Time in Four Years
Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, said that the central bank would take future interest rate cuts “meeting by meeting” after lowering rates by a half percentage point, an unusually large move.
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Today, the Federal Open Market Committee decided to reduce the degree of policy restraint by lowering our policy interest rate by a half percentage point. Our patient approach over the past year has paid dividends. Inflation is now much closer to our objective, and we have gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent. We’re going to take it meeting by meeting. As I mentioned, there’s no sense that the committee feels it’s in a rush to do this. We made a good, strong start to this, and that’s really, frankly, a sign of our confidence — confidence that inflation is coming down.
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