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France spends 8.4 billion euros to help companies with energy bills
France will spend 8.4 billion euros ($8.67 billion) to help companies pay their energy bills, in a bid to cushion the impact of rising electricity and gas prices and help them compete with German businesses, its finance minister said on Saturday.
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Germany wants to boost gas trading hub credit line to 20 bln euros
Germany wants to give an additional 5 billion euros' ($5.1 billion) worth of credit to the nationwide gas market trading hub to enable forward sales from gas storage facilities, according to a finance ministry document seen by Reuters.
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New Italian government's budget to boost spending to fight energy crisis
Italy's new right-wing government plans to announce some 30 billion euros in new spending on Monday in a budget for next year, mainly focused on curbing the impact of high energy prices while postponing some of its most lavish election promises.
read more... 22/11/2022
Daily (21.11.2022): Brent crude plummeted by 2.4% on Friday due to weaker demand following an increase in Covid-19 cases in China
Oil prices declined on Friday as the increase in Covid-19 cases in China, the world’s major crude importer, put pressure on oil demand. Hence, Brent crude fell by 2.4% to settle at $87.62 a barrel. WTI crude lost 1.9% to end at $80.08 a barrel.
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Czech lawmakers back $3.4 billion power revenue cap plan
The Czech lower house of parliament on Friday approved a government plan to cap revenues of power firms as part of efforts to fund measures to ease the burden of soaring prices on households and businesses.
read more... 21/11/2022