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Market Momentum Stalls: Technology Sector Pulls Stocks Down

Reddit Stock Surges on Positive Earnings Report

Shares of⁤ Reddit (RDDT) experienced a 5% increase on ​Wednesday following the company’s optimistic first-quarter earnings announcement. The social media platform anticipates strong sales growth and improved profitability in the ⁣current quarter.

Revenue ‌and Earnings Expectations Exceeded

In its recent release,⁤ Reddit revealed that it foresees second-quarter revenue between $240 million‌ and $255⁢ million, surpassing​ Wall Street’s ⁣projections of $228 million. Additionally, the company expects adjusted EBITDA to range from $0 to $15 million, contrasting with the anticipated $13 million loss.

Increased User Engagement

Reddit reported a 9% inc

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Global oil prices are back on the rise

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Hespress – dpaMonday, May 6, 2024 – 11:41

After declining last week, oil futures prices began the new week’s trading today, Monday, in Asia, with a noticeable increase after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced that it would raise the selling prices of various types of its crude in Asia for the third month in a row, which indicates confidence in the “OPEC Plus” group’s decision to reduce… Oil production.

Bloomberg News Agency reported that Brent crude, the global oil standard, approached $84 per barrel, after falling by more than 7% last week, recording the largest weekly decline since last February. The price of West Texas Intermediate crude, the US oil stand

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ACM: additional solar panel supply costs not prohibited | RTL News

#ACM #additional #solar #panel #supply #costs #prohibited #RTL #News

This is the conclusion of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM). research.

According to the regulator, households with solar panels cause higher costs for energy companies than households without solar panels. Energy suppliers spend more money on purchasing costs, imbalance costs and costs caused by the netting scheme for this group of customers.

No extra margin on customers with solar panels

The four energy suppliers examined (Budget Energy, Vattenfall, Eneco and Engie) base the additional costs for their customers on the above three cost items. They make no extra m

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Senegal publishes a list of boats authorized to fish in its waters

Fishing professionals and environmental defenders welcomed, Tuesday, May 7, the publication by the Ministry of Fisheries, the day before, of a list of boats authorized to fish in Senegal’s waters. “This is a big step for transparency in the management of fisheries resources”, Aliou Ba, head of the “Ocean” campaign for Greenpeace Africa, told AFP. Fishing directly or indirectly supports around 600,000 Senegalese people, for a population of around 18 million inhabitants, according to the UN.

Read also | In Senegal, fishermen’s income is falling due to the practices of bottom trawlers

NGOs have been calling for the p

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US Stocks to Follow on Wall Street (Updated) – 05/08/2024 at 1:25 pm

Principales valeurs à suivre mercredi à Wall Street :          * SEMICONDUCTEURS - Les États-Unis ont révoqué les licences qui permettaient à des entreprises comme INTEL  INTC.O  et QUALCOMM  QCOM.O  d'exporter des puces au fabricant chinois Huawei Technologies, sanctionné, ont déclaré trois personnes familières avec le sujet.              * UBER  UBER.N  recule de 8,7% dans les échanges d'avant-marché après avoir déçu les attentes sur ses réservations au premier trimestre et ses prévisions de réservations au deuxième trimestre.                 * Les livraisons de l'iPhone d'APPLE  AAPL.O  en Chine ont augmenté de 12% en mars, portées par les réductions de prix, selon les données de recherche d'un cabinet affilié au gouvernement chinois.             * META PLATFORMS  META.O  a déclaré mardi qu'elle élargirait sa suite de produits publicitaires d'IA générative pour offrir des outils capables de créer automatiquement des variations d'images et d'y superposer du texte.              * La Commission européenne a déclaré mercredi avoir demandé au réseau social X  TWTR.MX  des informations sur la diminution des ressources allouées à la modération de contenu, dans le cadre de la loi sur la réglementation des services numériques.             * OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM  OXY.N  a fait état d'un bénéfice supérieur au consensus mardi, la société pétrolière et gazière ayant bénéficié d'une production de pétrole plus élevée.          * BOEING  BA.N  - Un avion construit par le groupe a atterri sans utiliser son train d'atterrissage avant mercredi à l'aéroport d'Istanbul, a déclaré le ministère des Transports turc.          * PFIZER  PFE.N  - Un jeune patient est décédé d'un arrêt cardiaque après avoir reçu la thérapie génique expérimentale du groupe pour la maladie musculaire dite dystrophie musculaire de Duchenne, a déclaré le fabricant de médicaments à Reuters mardi.              * ARISTA NETWORK  ANET.N  progresse de 7,5% en avant-bourse après que le spécialiste des services en cloud a annoncé mardi prévoir des ventes au premier trimestre supérieures aux attentes.             * INTERNATIONAL PAPER  IP.N  - La société brésilienne Suzano  SUZB3.SA  a exprimé son intérêt pour une acquisition entièrement en numéraire de près de 15 milliards de dollars, selon des personnes familières avec le dossier.          * RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE  RIVN.

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Uber Falls Short of Market Expectations in First Quarter Performance

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(New York = Yonhap News) Reporter Ji-heon Lee = It was found that the total booking performance of Uber, an American ride-hailing company, in the first quarter did not meet market expectations. Uber’s stock price plunged at the market open on the 8th (local time).

In the performance report released today, Uber announced that reservations in the first quarter totaled $37.7 billion.

This is an increase of 20% compared to the same period last year, but is lower than the forecast ($38 billion) presented by the company when announ

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Buying a house: You should ask these 5 questions when viewing

There are 5 questions you should definitely ask before buying a house. picture alliance / Monkey Business 2

Asking costs nothing. This is especially true when buying a house. Because if you don’t ask questions, you could have to pay larger sums out of your own pocket due to ignorance.

The seller must disclose all defects, but only those that he himself is aware of. This can cause difficulties later.

We’ll tell you 5 questions that everyone should ask when viewing a house – it’s about easements, building law pitfalls and damage.

As they say? Who dont asks stays dump. The phrase from Sesame Street applies more than ever when buying a home. Not asking questions is not only stupid, but can also be very expensive. There are several aspects that are best clarified during the viewing.

Because: Sellers only have to disclose hidden defects to interested parties that they themselves are aware of. This obligation generally applies even if the defects are a criterion that speaks against a purchase, writes Immoscout24. Such defects could be, for example, the presence of wood fungus or carcinogenic asbestos in the house.

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Setting up your house for viewing: You should avoid these 7 mistakes if you want to sell your house

Risk of fraudulent misrepresentation by the seller

If sellers conceal such information, they are guilty of “malicious misrepresentation”. If the deception and breach of the obligation to provide information are noticed, compensation or the reversal of the purchase contract can be demanded.

However, there are also defects for which the buyer must be liable. This applies to things that were not noticed during the inspection, for example. It is usually difficult to prove afterwards that the defects already existed. This makes a thorough inspection all

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Azerbaijan is a key energy partner of Bulgaria
– 2024-05-08 18:11:06

Relations at the highest level are a stable basis for the development of bilateral relations, not only in the interest of Bulgaria and Azerbaijan, but also to strengthen the stability of the Caucasus and the Black Sea region, to strengthen the energy security of Europe. This was said by the head of state Rumen Radev in a statement to the media in Baku. The President is visiting Azerbaijan at the invitation of his colleague Ilham Aliyev.

Earlier today, the two presidents held a “four eyes” meeting and signed a number of documents of mutual interest to strengthen bilateral cooperation.

Azerbaijan and Bulgaria are linked by traditional friendship, understanding and mutual trust. An expression of these relations is the strategic dialogue at the highest political level, Radev emphasized.

He noted that Azerbaijan has become a key partner of Bulgaria in the field of energy and has made a significant contribution to the diversification of gas supplies for the Bulgarian economy. The President recalled that in the fall of 2022 in Sofia, in the

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“Surplus” of 19,259 businesses in the four months [πίνακας]
2024-05-08 19:11:30

More specifically, with regard to the total number of active businesses, of these 950,083, the majority are in the wholesale and retail trade – repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (250,246 businesses).

The following are businesses included in the following Activity Codes (ACNs): accommodation and service activities (134,144), construction (71,505), manufacturing (63,373), professional, scientific and technical activities (55,021), other service activities (35,967) , transportation and storage (34,257), administrative and support activities (27,189), information and communication (23,457), real estate management (22,669), arts, entertainment and recreation (17,245), education (17,149), electricity, natural gas , steam and air conditioning (16,672), financial and insurance activities (14,721), human health and welfare activities (11,933), agriculture, forestry and fisheries (8,276), water supply, sewage treatment, waste management and remediation activities (2,078), public administration and defense – compulsory socia

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“Surplus” of 19,259 businesses in the four months [πίνακας] 2024-05-08 19:11:30

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