PepsiCo was up 0.3 percent in New York trading on Tuesday. The US maker of soft drinks and snacks posted better-than-expected sales and profit last quarter. The group raised its full-year revenue forecast for the second year in a row due to continued strong demand for its products. The mood on Wall Street was calm after the previous day’s defeat. …

Croatia and the European Commission approved the Balkan country’s entry into the eurozone on Tuesday. That means scientist Nikola Tesla’s portrait will be on the country’s euro-adoption coins on January 1 next year. Croatia has been a member of the European Union since 2013 and wants to replace its own currency, the kuna, with the euro. EU countries wishing to …

The last time one euro was equal to one dollar was at the end of 2002. This phenomenon, when two currencies have the same value, is also called parity. The European currency has been under pressure for some time due to the growing risk of an economic disaster in the Eurozone. Bloomberg news agency writes† Investors fear the European Central …

A worker sorts liquefied petroleum gas cylinders in Soweto, South Africa.Image courtesy of Reuters The EU is trying to reduce its dependence on Russian gas by importing as much gas as possible from Africa. That’s fueling outrage and accusations of hypocrisy there, according to Bloomberg News. The West wants African countries to use less polluting fuels to power local populations, …

ANP products † Source: AP Wednesday 29 June 2022 at 15:02 Doha Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that Wednesday’s closed-door talks between Iran and the United States yielded no results. Representatives from the two countries were in Doha to renew the 2015 nuclear deal, but no closer to a new agreement. Iran-US negotiators did not speak directly to each other …

Photo: ANP Twitter’s main focus is on the stock markets this week. Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s takeover of the messaging service now appears to be off. The world’s richest man says Twitter is not complying with the terms of the takeover, but has announced plans to enforce the Twitter takeover through the courts. Investors’ focus shifts from macro to corporate …

Britain’s Prince Harry has won a small court victory in his lawsuit against Associated Newspapers (ANL). In the first ruling on Friday, a Supreme Court judge ruled that an article published in the Mail on Sunday in February was defamatory, several British media outlets reported. The article in question appeared in response to the Prince’s lawsuit against the British Home …

NU.nl provides you with an ongoing overview of the situation in Ukraine. This time: Russian troops shelled residential areas in Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kriviy Rih on Saturday morning. The Ukrainian president visited the city on Friday, where he visited the front line. At the same time, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called on the Chinese secretary to speak …

(Photo: ZZ Leiden Basketball). Leiden, 9 July 2022, 10:27 am By authors Luuk van Bree will play for Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden Basketball for the next two seasons. The 2.03m forward has spent the last two seasons at Leiden. Luuk van Bree moved to America in 2015 via the Canarias Basketball Academy (Spain). There he played four years for Bradley’s …

July 8, 2022 On June 16, the Standing Parliamentary Committees for Economic Affairs and Climate/Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (EZK/LNV) and Infrastructure, Environment and Water Management (IWO) put questions to Minister Jeton for Climate and Energy and the European Commission. In the context of the political debate over the proposal for regulation on fluorinated greenhouse gases. On June 30, the …