Seems to be reducing. But there are also concerns about the wider us economy that led to a wider sell off on us markets, as ritika gupta explains. The snp 500 saw its biggest slide since an early august meltdown, ending the session down 2%. This comes after a rally that put the benchmark within a striking distance of its all time highs. Technology stocks, the gauges most influential group, took the brunt of the decline. The nasdaq index closed down by 3%, while the dowjones index slipped by 1. 5%. One of the biggest losers on the day was nvidia, the high flying artificial intelligence darling, which raised more than $240 billion in market value. The chip maker shares closed down over 9%. 0ther semiconductor stocks, including micron, intel and advanced micro devices, fell in sympathy. The market also took a leg lower after manufacturing production data shrank for a fifth month in august. The institute for supply management manufacturing gauge edged up to 47. 2. A reading below 50 indi
after 30 hours of marathon talks, the european union has reached an agreement to strengthen and expand its carbon market boosting one of the bloc s main tools to fight climate change. emissions trading will be extended to heating, road transport and shipping in the continent s biggest climate policy. sofie defour who is the climate director forthe campaign group transport and environment. she explained whether the costs of carbon trading will be passed on to consumers 01’ companies. it is mainly an obligation on the companies, for example if you look at ordering a television from say china that would add about 3 cents to the cost of your television. so next to nothing for consumers, however for the next to nothing for consumers, howeverfor the shipping next to nothing for consumers, however for the shipping company that transports your television china to europe, the shipping company would be incentivised either
festive period and the last six nations, this will be huge for the economy here in south wales and cardiff. the first minister has come under criticism over whether or not this is actually a u turn by the welsh government. have they accepted that they did not need to put these restrictions in place. he has said they were necessary. had they not be put in place, the figures would be far higher here. today, the 0ns figures showed that there was an increase of people getting 0micron here in wales, howeverfor the second day in a wrote the number going into hospital with the virus has decreased. let s talk a bit more about those 0ns figures now. what should be be reading into these
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