For a moment, investors hoped that Trump would get to sentences, but the stock markets show that Investors have less and less confidence that Trump will be reflected in his threats for import taxN and cuts. The leading S&P500 index has fallen by more than 8 percent three weeks ago since a record high.
Trump’s comments on Sunday at Fox News will not have helped. He trivialized the risk of a recession and talked about a period of transition. “What we do is very big, we bring prosperity back to America.”
Tech companies in particular went down yesterday. TechIndex Nasdaq fell by 4 percent yesterday. Tesla went down 15 percent and achieved the lowest point since October.
What stood further in the news of this morning:
- Announcement for all travelers: from tomorrow there will be Worked on the railway in the Schiphol tunnel up to and including Thursday 27 March. Fewer traces, fewer trains and the advice not to drive during rush hour.
- If the netting scheme ends in 2027, solar energy is almost worth nothing anymore. Energy company Greenchoice was the first to announce its conditions for 2027 and set the tone with a decrease from 15.2 to 5.2 cents per kWh. Then net 0.25 cents remains, by Ad that this reported this morning. “If you return 3200 kWh with 12 panels per year, your solar panels will only yield 8 euros a year,” says energy expert Geert Wirken from Kaken.nl in the AD.
- Consumer goods and services were in February 3.8 percent more expensive than a year earlierreports the CBS. In January, inflation was 3.3 percent. Foods were 3.8 percent more expensive in February than in the same month last year. Meat, bread and grain products in particular became more expensive.
- VDL is going to make fighter junks with the Swiss company Destinusthat has a branch in Hengelo. It reports that FD. Destinus has been in the Netherlands since 2023, especially for the production of guest turbines. There have been rumors for some time that VDL Drones would build in the former Nedcar factory in Limburg.
- Also from the FD: pension investor APG and PGGM sell their shares in the Rotterdam tank storage company LBC for 1.6 billion On the Japanese shipping company Mitui Osk Lines.
- Home builders get in De Telegraaf Space for their plea. Suppose objectioners personally liable for the deliberately stuck of construction projects, they ask. At the end of 2024, 115,000 homes were not built, and that would usually be a result of storage procedures. The ‘prop’ must be from the housing building pipeline, says director Coen van Rooyen on behalf of WoningbouwersNL, the organization of project developers and construction entrepreneurs.
- The House of Representatives debates this afternoon about climate and energy. There Minister Hermans (VVD, climate and green growth) must explain how she wants to achieve climate goalsof which it was already clear that they would not be achieved without extra money.