Good morning! The weekend is near, we already collect the economic news for you for one day.
What did we notice this morning?
- The number of passengers to and from Dutch airports is still not at the level of for the Coronapandemie. In 2024, 76.2 million people traveled to and from Schiphol and the airports of Maastricht, Eindhoven, Rotterdam and Groningen. More than in 2023, less than in 2019. That reports the CBS This morning.
- Tonight Amazon presented good gradespartly due to a sales peak during the holidays in December. The win in the fourth quarter amounted to 20 billion dollars (19.2 billion euros), compared to $ 10 billion a year earlier in that period. However, most attention was to the announcement that Amazon About 100 billion dollars in AI applications will pump this year. Amazon thus surpasses the intentions of Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft: the tech companies have tid to each other in recent weeks with billions of plans for AI. The Financial Times this morning in a row That these companies want to invest in total in artificial intelligence in a total of around $ 300 billion in artificial intelligence, including in data centers.
- Nowadays no morning passes without an announcement from Donald Trump – of which you should see later how serious it was. In the economic field this morning: the president wants close a gap in tax legislation What private equity funds are eager to use. That Can lead to a clash With these parties, the Financial Times writes this morning.
- Ever worth more than Ford, now according to The Wall Street Journal close to the abyss: the American start-up in electric truck Nikola. A bankruptcy is approaching for the companythat never completely got rid of the scammers image after it turned out that the trucks had let a slope roll to pretend that the technology was working. (Ford is not really going well either: last night the group came up with a profit warning and the rate dropped more than 7 percent).
- And last night: the large American industrial group Honeywell, known for thermostats, wants to split itself In three parts. It is one of the last large industrial congregationsand seems to want to repeat the plans of General Electric a few years ago. The announcement fits in with years of trend of conglomerates to break itself up, the model is completely ‘out’, investors want focus.
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