outlook Weather change: Lots of snow expected in the mountains The baroque garden of the small castle in Blankenburg (Saxony-Anhalt) is covered in snow. photo © Matthias Bein/dpa The prognosis for the weekend is good. In the new week it will be windy to stormy and changeable overall. At the start of the new week, the weather in Germany will be windy to stormy and changeable overall. The German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach announced on Friday that the snow...
market report Status: 01/27/2023 07:39 a.m After strong trading on Wall Street, the DAX should start the last trading day of the week with gains. Will the leading German index finally achieve the liberation? Thanks to the good specifications from Wall Street, the German stock market is showing slight gains at the end of the week. The broker IG estimates the 40 German standard values 0.3 percent higher at 15,178 points. Important hurdle ahead in the DAX The DAX should...
7:42 a.m .: UN refugee commissioner predicts new wave of displaced UkrainiansWith the push of Russian forces into eastern Ukraine, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees warned Thursday that Europeans should prepare for a likely new wave of displaced people fleeing the fighting.“Any exacerbation of the war is likely to cause new displacements, one way or another, and we must prepare for this,” Filippo Grandi said in an interview with AFP in kyiv. "As we have seen everywhere, in Mariupol,...
Status: 01/26/2023 3:20 p.m In 2023, the insurance industry will turn the price screw. Many auto insurers will increase their rates. Private health insurance and homeowners insurance are also likely to become more expensive. The high rates of inflation are also leaving their mark on the German insurance industry. For example, rising spare parts prices and workshop costs lead to higher claims expenditure, said the President of the General Association of the German Insurance Industry (GDV), Norbert Rollinger, with a...
Traffic resumed faster than expected on Wednesday at the Gare de l'Est in Paris, the day after the "act of sabotage" which put it on hold all day on Tuesday, the repair work having "well advanced", according to SNCF. "Repair work on the facilities damaged by the arson has made good progress overnight and is continuing on Wednesday," the public group said.Traffic has improved since midday, with three out of four trains for the TGV Est. The day had started...
THE ESSENTIALChancellor Olaf Scholz speaks this Wednesday before the German Parliament with, in the key, a possible announcement on the deliveries of heavy Leopard tanks to Ukraine, which demands them with insistence to defend itself against the Russian invasion. Lsource site
market report Status: 01/25/2023 07:32 a.m A continuation of the stock market rally will not take place today either. The leading German index is likely to start trading with a moderate minus. Investors are currently looking primarily at business figures. According to pre-market indications, the DAX is expected to be at 15,065 points at the start of trading on XETRA. This corresponds to a minus of 0.2 percent. The mark of 15,000 points is once again dangerously close. Wall Street...
The Verdi union announces a day-long warning strike. About 300 take-offs and landings with 35,000 passengers were planned. source site
Status: 01/23/2023 1:49 p.m A speed limit could protect the climate more than previously assumed. According to a study by the Federal Environment Agency, this would save 6.7 million tons of CO2 per year. A speed limit is therefore an important component "without additional costs". According to a study by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), a speed limit of 120 kilometers per hour on motorways can save around 6.7 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. "A speed limit on...
Flight operations at BER will probably come to a standstill on Wednesday: the Verdi union has called on the majority of employees to go on a all-day warning strike. According to Verdi, the background to this is the collective bargaining that has so far been unsuccessful. Due to a warning strike, no passenger flights are expected to take off or land at the capital's Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) on Wednesday. "In this situation, the airport company must assume that no regular...
