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Yen jumps on reports of Katayama-Bessent talks

Depot comparison 2026

https://www.finanzfluss.de/vergleich/depot/ I was thinking about switching my depot from my old provider and was looking for a new one here. What surprised me extremely: The S-Broker takes fourth place, well ahead of Trade Republic. Very low costs, large selection of trading venues (including American and Asian ones, i.e. trading around the clock), huge number of ETF savings plans, many investment products and interesting order options (significantly more than pure limit orders, e.g. One Canc

Energy: RWE wants to take over the majority in the network operator Amprion

The DAX group is increasing its stake in Amprion to 55 percent and paying 3.6 billion euros for it. The Handelsblatt had already reported exclusively on the plans.

How we save for equity as a couple and what we have changed so far

Hello everyone, my girlfriend and I are in our mid-20s and have set ourselves the goal of having equity for an apartment or a house together in five to six years. We now approach the whole thing almost like a project: cooking ahead on Sundays, taking a can to the office, shopping more consciously at Aldi and Lidl instead of spontaneously at Rewe, comparing and changing insurance policies via Check24. We get drugstore and household stuff via tiktok when product offers are on, which saves us around 15 to 20 euros

Thoughts on the Getty Images/OpenAI deal this morning

Getty Images jumped 200% this morning on an OpenAI deal. The announcement didn't include a single dollar figure. No annual minimum. No per-query fee. No revenue share. No training terms. Just a multi-year agreement that puts Getty's licensed content into ChatGPT search and discovery experiences. The market celebrated anyway. That's the actual story. Not that Getty got a huge check, we don't know that. The story is that the market is so starved for proof that AI companies will negotiate licensed

Controversial bicycle trade fair: Eurobike at the end

The concept of the Eurobike bicycle trade fair ignores the needs of the local industry. A restart is needed.

End of Eurobike?: The bicycle industry is planning a new leading trade fair in Cologne

Two days before the opening, the Frankfurt Eurobike becomes an obsolete event. The bicycle industry wants to continue in Cologne in the future. For a good reason.

U.S. Airlines Set To Pocket $40 Billion As Jet Fuel Prices Crash

U.S. airlines stand to save billions in dollars on jet fuel costs after the US-Iran peace deal sent oil prices sharply lower. Brent crude was trading at $79.22 per barrel at 6.05 am ET on Monday, nearly $20/bbl lower after Washington and Tehran agreed to a ceasefire and committed to 60 days of negotiations, while jet fuel spot prices fell to $2.85 a gallon, down sharply from $4.88. The dip in fuel costs could slash the U.S. airline industry’s annual fuel bill by more than $40 billion, easing the

Silicon Saxony: After the opening is before the opening

The US chip manufacturer Globalfoundries is expanding its factory in Dresden for 1.1 billion euros. The plans for the next rounds of expansion are already in the drawers.

As Europe rearms, can it decouple its military supply chains from China?

Europe’s defence industry would gradually reduce its reliance on China during the continent’s ongoing rearmament drive, rather than decouple completely, analysts said. On Wednesday, during the Group of Seven summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, the leaders of France, Germany, the UK, Italy, the US, Canada and Japan signed a declaration on securing supply chains for critical minerals. Without naming China, the leaders agreed to “significantly reduce” their dependency on a “single supplier outside..

Real estate: Bafin takes action against Deutscher Finance – 50,000 investors affected

The financial regulator sends a representative to the investment house and requests documents. The focus is on 20 funds with a volume of 1.5 billion euros. Many of them lack current annual financial statements.

State restructuring: Magyar announces purge and new constitution for Hungary

Orban's loyalists are to leave, a new authority is tracking down suspected embezzled millions of euros. Peter Magyar explains for the first time exactly how this should work.

Heatwave, Hormuz Threats and Qatar Blast Push European Gas Prices Higher

Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices rose by nearly 2% on Monday morning in Amsterdam as a heatwave in Europe is raising short-term power demand and the U.S.-Iran talks continue amid conflicting messages about the negotiations and renewed threats from U.S. President Donald Trump. The front-month Dutch TTF Natural Gas Futures, the benchmark for Europe’s gas trading, were up by 1.75% at $49.04 (42.83 euros) per megawatt-hour (MWh) early on Monday in Amsterdam trade, reversing some of the declines

Comment: Andy Burnham must dare to return home to Europe

Six prime ministers in ten years – the kingdom is still stuck in its self-inflicted Brexit trap. Does Starmer's possible successor have the courage to draw the right conclusions from this?

Pharmaceutical industry: Abbvie acquires biotech company Apogee for $10.9 billion

With its largest acquisition in more than five years, Abbvie is strengthening its own drug pipeline. By purchasing the company, the pharmaceutical company is securing access to several active ingredients.

Best options (low risk and for beginners) to keep 15k of savings for a year?

Hi, I'm new to investing, I have 15k on an account that I plan to keep untouched (and continue to save on it) for a year, after the year I will need the money. Currently have it in a savings account where it is earning 2%, so below inflation. I currently do not have a lot of time to nerd out on this stuff or do super complicated strategies, what is something safe and simple? even if its not the best earnings, I just need to keep it above inflation. Chat GPT suggested Euro Money Market Fund (MMF)

Christine Lagarde: Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament

Service consolidation: Provided means not used - authorities hardly use the new systems

The federal government wanted to standardize its IT, with central solutions for files, personnel and more. Ten years and 836 million euros later, the Court of Auditors draws a sobering conclusion.

Pharma: AbbVie swallows biotech company Apogee for $10.9 billion

With the acquisition of Apogee Therapeutics, AbbVie is strengthening its immunology portfolio and focusing on new growth drivers.

Emergency call from the leading associations: Municipal cash loans are growing rapidly

Big city, small community, rural district: money is missing everywhere, a lot of money. The municipal family expects deficits of almost 30 billion euros per year - up to and including 2029.

War robots invade Eurosatory 2026 as interest grows in UGVs after use in in Ukraine

Ukrainian firms, especially, showed off combat-proven unmanned ground vehicles, but at least one experts isn’t convinced of a wider use-case, yet.

Defense giant KNDS moves closer to IPO after France-Germany stake deal

France and Germany agreed on a KNDS framework as Germany seeks a 40% stake ahead of a potential multibillion-euro IPO.

China rejects trade criticism after Merz backs global yuan action

China pushed back against criticisms of its trade practices after the German chancellor became the latest world leader to voice complaints amid surging trade imbalances. “China never actively pursues a trade surplus,” Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang said on Monday at the opening of a supply-chain expo in Beijing. “The greatest obstacle to China increasing its imports does not lie within itself, but rather with certain countries that abuse export controls.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday..

Eurobike: Riese und Müller is planning an in-house exhibition instead of Eurobike

The Frankfurt bicycle trade fair has been written off for the German premium manufacturer. The Hessian company puts a lot of energy into developing the segment of particularly light e-bikes for the city.

Germany backs EU’s tough China line with call for ‘Plaza Accord’ talks on yuan

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz signalled a major shift in Berlin’s economic relations with Beijing on Friday, saying the Chinese currency was undervalued by 30 per cent, well above the International Monetary Fund’s estimate of “about 16 per cent”. submitted by /u/Any-Original-6113 [link] [comments]

Hong Kong to roll out measures boosting offshore yuan trading in July: finance chief

As Hong Kong marks the 29th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on July 1, the South China Morning Post talks to the city’s senior officials about the administration’s achievements so far and what may lie ahead. Authorities are expected to roll out measures to strengthen Hong Kong’s role as an offshore Chinese yuan hub next month, the finance chief has revealed, with the government pushing to increase the number of listed firms trading stocks in renminbi. Financial Secretary Paul Chan...

Hot Take: Gold may underperform in the next few months but is poised to up in the next few years.

Hot Take: Gold may underperform in the next few months but is poised to up in the next few years. Gold has come down significantly from its peak of 5500 earlier this year now trading at around 4100. First off the decline was warranted. Gold ran up WAY too much before the start of Iran war. For an asset class worth close to $25 trillion to rally $1000 in two weeks(happened in January) is an indication of an over extended trade. Having said that futures market isn’t the full picture and hold deman

Saving instead of investing for years – what would you do today if you were me?

Hello everyone, I am currently 34 years old and only started getting serious about investing when I was 33. Looking back, this is probably one of my biggest financial mistakes. Especially in my early 20s, I should have started much earlier. I was afraid of investing for years. On the one hand because I didn't know enough about it, on the other hand because I was afraid of losing money. That's why I just left my money in the bank account where

After Anthropic ban: Europe's way out of the AI ​​trap

Donald Trump denies foreigners access to the best AI models. Now Europe is waking up.

Equinor Expands Giant Troll Field as Europe Hunts for More Gas

Equinor and its partners are investing more than NOK 4 billion ($390 million) to expand the Troll field, a giant North Sea asset that supplies around 10% of Europe's natural gas and contains 40% of Norway's remaining gas reserves. The project is expected to unlock around 11 billion cubic meters of natural gas, equivalent to roughly 69 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), further strengthening one of Europe's most important sources of energy. Known as TWIN (Troll West Increased Gas Recovery N