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00:21 and a rise of 22%.
00:24 According to the HCP, this is due to,
00:28 on the one hand, sales rising in the food products wholesale market,
00:32 and the wholesale market for household goods,
00:34 and on the other hand, sales falling in the wholesale market
00:38 for other industrial equipment.
00:40 Employment would have been stable, according to 79% of business leaders.
00:45 The stock of goods would have been at a normal level, according to 86% of wholesalers.
00:52 And the trend of observing sales prices would have shown stability,
00:57 according to 55% of business leaders,
01:00 and a decrease, according to 36% of them.
01:03 Still in Morocco, and in a context where the cement domestic market
01:07 has experienced a contraction of nearly 4.6%,
01:11 the Farge All Seed Morocco has made a turnover of 4.13 billion dirhams
01:17 in the first half of the year.
01:18 The group has thus recorded a 3% growth
01:22 compared to the same period in 2022.
01:25 Regarding the current operating result,
01:28 it has reached 1.46 billion dirhams,
01:32 a slight increase of 0.3%
01:35 compared to the same period in the previous exercise.
01:38 The return on capital invested by the Farge All Seed Morocco
01:41 has maintained a solid level of 10% for the first half of the year.
01:47 In international news, and more precisely in the eurozone,
01:51 the return to the target of inflation at 2% will take time.
01:55 This is a statement made this Wednesday
01:58 by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,
02:02 who sees in the persistence of strong inflation
02:05 a major economic challenge for the continent.
02:08 The annual inflation rate in the 20 countries of the eurozone
02:13 rose to 5.3% in August,
02:16 after reaching 10.6% in October 2022.
02:20 The price increase in consumption remains still very high
02:24 above the 2% target set by the European Central Bank.
02:30 The European Commission announced
02:32 that it was still planning an annual inflation rate
02:35 of 2.9% in 2024.
02:39 Von der Leyen congratulated itself
02:42 on the drop in gas prices in Europe
02:44 since the highest levels reached last year.
02:47 They went from 300 euros per megawatt-hour a year ago
02:52 to around 35 euros.
02:55 We stay in Europe and look at the automotive sector in Belgium.
02:58 The number of fully electric cars
03:01 has almost doubled between 2022 and 2023,
03:05 with an increase of 93.6% according to official data.
03:10 In 2022, the number of electric cars was more than 71,000.
03:16 This number is now up to nearly 140,000 in 2023.
03:22 However, 80.8% of these cars are cars for companies.
03:27 On their side, hybrid cars currently represent
03:31 8.9% of the total number of vehicles.
03:35 As for the number of diesel cars,
03:38 they keep falling,
03:40 with a drop of 9.2% compared to last year.
03:45 And we continue with the British economy,
03:47 which has contracted 0.5% between June and July.
03:52 According to the British Office of Statistics,
03:54 the weather is exceptionally rainy
03:56 and the strikes have affected spending and economic activity.
04:01 The drop in gross domestic product
04:03 was more significant than the 0.2% forecast by economists.
04:09 On its side,
04:10 the production of services dropped by 0.5% in July.
04:15 The strikes in the health sector
04:18 have contributed to this downperformance.
04:21 According to official figures,
04:23 manufacturing production has fallen by 0.8%,
04:28 with a decline in the construction sector.
04:32 However, the British Office of Statistics
04:35 is still optimistic
04:37 and believes that the overall picture of the country is more positive.
04:41 To close this edition, we go to the United States,
04:45 where household revenues fell by around $2,000 last year.
04:50 That's what the US Census Bureau said.
04:53 According to analysts,
04:55 this drop is due to inflation.
04:58 Let's remember that inflation has reached its highest level in 40 years.
05:03 It slowed to 3.2% in July,
05:07 down more than 9% in 2022.
05:11 Unemployment has also remained stable,
05:13 while the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates.
05:18 This data makes some economists hope
05:21 that the downward trend in income
05:23 will slow down or stop this year.
05:26 That's the end of this edition.
05:27 Thank you for watching.
05:28 See you next time on Mediantv.
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