For Wall Street, the glass is half full. Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) is once again winning over users and investors, but emerges weak from 2022, the first year its advertising revenue has declined since the social media giant went public in 2012.Its annual revenue fell 1% to $116.61 billion, according to its earnings release. Its title still jumped 19% during electronic trading after the closing of the Stock Exchange on Wednesday, because the market expected a more brutal fall for...
Since the first steps of the pension reform, the deputies of the majority scour the television sets to defend the decisions of the government. According to them, shifting the retirement age to 64 would be fairer for the population as a whole. Conversely, lowering the retirement age to 60, as part of Nupes wishes, would create many inequalities.At the microphone of BFMTV, the deputy Renaissance Mathieu Lefèvre mentioned the alternatives to this reform. “When I hear that I am being...
Survey of non-swimmers To learn how to swim? It also depends on the income of the parents Learning to swim can also be a lot of fun. More children are learning it in higher-income households than in poorer families, a new survey shows. © Roland Weihrauch Learning to swim is vital. But many children in Germany cannot, or only insufficiently, do it. There are a number of reasons for this, one of which appears to be parental income. Why do...
In the financial sector, so goes a bon mot, communism was brought to completion: Employees and managerial staff of banks and savings banks have always been extremely good at negotiating adequate salaries, while the shareholders often get nothing or the customers pay high fees. That was the case again in 2021: The number of employees in banks and investment companies in Germany who receive annual total remuneration of more than one million euros rose by around ten percent, like the...
It is an agreement “unprecedented in France”, a mechanism which will allow a real jump “of more than 27% compared to the lowest current net minimum income” of VTC drivers. Since the arrival of platforms like Uber, the precariousness of drivers, both on their own and subject to the policies of the application, has often been pointed out. And in recent years, the Covid crisis and then the soaring fuel prices have completed the financial health of drivers.From February 1,...
Several unions of VTC drivers and platforms have agreed to impose a minimum income of 7.65 euros per trip, but the agreement signed on Wednesday is far from unanimous among the trade unions in the sector where social dialogue remains still stammering.The agreement, which provides for the implementation of a minimum income per trip from February 1, would raise the price of the smallest trip to around 10.20 euros for the passenger on an application like Uber, including the fees....
Status: 01/10/2023 3:11 p.m High energy prices have recently brought enormous profits to the oil and gas companies. They are to be skimmed off with an excess profit tax. But how high the income will be is completely unclear. The annual tax law was passed in December last year. Part of it: an excess profit tax for energy companies to absorb random profits in the electricity sector. These companies will have to pay 33 percent tax for the fiscal years...
broadcasting fee Citizens' allowance recipients do not have to pay - who can still be exempted? The list of those who are entitled to a GEZ exemption is long (symbol image) © Markus Mainka / Picture Alliance At the turn of the year, the requirements for exemption from the broadcasting fee also changed. In addition to recipients of citizen income, many other population groups do not have to pay. You should know these requirements, forms and applications. This article first...
Status: 05.01.2023 1:03 p.m Since this year, the unemployed have received the new citizens' allowance instead of Hartz IV. According to an analysis by Check24, the standard rate provided for energy is not sufficient to pay the electricity bill. According to calculations by the online portal Check24, the new citizen's income does not cover the recipient's electricity costs any more than Hartz IV did before. In the item for living and energy - without rent - the basic income standard...
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