Description
Added on the 08/12/2014 16:30:57 - Copyright : Reuters EN
Poland signed on Wednesday a $4.75 billion (3.8-billion-euro) contract to purchase a US-made Patriot anti-missile system, a move that is likely to irk Russia as East-West tensions rise. IMAGES
The deal gives the U.S.' largest wireless carrier AOL's technology for selling ads and its trove of web video. Fred Katayama reports.
South Africa’s finance minister forecasts the economy will grow by 4.8 percent, a revision to the 5.1 percent growth previously forecast. While presenting the country's 2022 budget to parliament, minister Enoch Godongwana says "Commodity prices... also, violent unrest in July; restrictions imposed to manage the third wave of Covid-19 further eroded the gains made in the first half of the year." SOUNDBITE
Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for Economy, revises the eurozone's 2021 growth forecast "markedly" to 4.8 percent. Brussels had been expecting a 4.3 percent growth rate as the single-currency area recovers from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and associated lockdowns. SOUNDBITE
Tokyo, Mar 9 (EFE/EPA).- Japan's economy contracted by 4.8 percent in 2020, according to revised data published Tuesday by the government, which maintained its initial estimate, although it reported a lower investment and revised down the growth in the last quarter of the year.The revised report released by the Cabinet Office on Tuesday confirms the first contraction in the country's GDP since the record 5.7 percent decline it registered in 2009.That year, the Asian country's economy was impacted by the financial crisis sparked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and last year by the coronavirus pandemic. (Camera: ARCHIVE).B-ROLL OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN TOKYO, JAPAN.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
