XtockImages/iStock via Getty Images France’s annual consumer inflation rate accelerated to a preliminary 2.4% in May 2026, up from 2.2% in April, according to provisional data released by the statistics agency INSEE on Friday. While the reading landed marginally below the 2.5% market consensus, it marks the fourth consecutive monthly increase and pushes consumer price momentum to its highest level...
XtockImages/iStock via Getty Images France’s annual consumer inflation rate accelerated to a preliminary 2.4% in May 2026, up from 2.2% in April, according to provisional data released by the statistics agency INSEE on Friday. While the reading landed marginally below the 2.5% market consensus, it marks the fourth consecutive monthly increase and pushes consumer price momentum to its highest level since February 2024. The increase was driven mainly by higher energy prices, particularly gas, amid the conflict with Iran. Meanwhile, food inflation remained unchanged from the previous month, while prices for manufactured goods and tobacco increased at a steady rate. More on iShares MSCI France ETF EWQ: France An Excellent Diversifier, Here's Why U.S. Tariffs: A New Trade War? France's Q1 GDP revised downward to -0.1% contraction Norway to join France's nuclear deterrence initiative Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on iShares MSCI France ETF
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Bear markets have a way of separating solid investments from noise. When prices are climbing, everything looks like a winner. When they’re not, you start asking important questions, like whether the coin you’re looking at actually offers utility, or has upside potential. XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is in the middle of that conversation in 2026, and ... Should Beginners Buy XRP (Ripple) in 2026?
European Energy A/S: Q1 2026 report Company announcement 9/2026 (29.05.2026) European Energy announces its financial report for the first quarter of 2026. Highlights: Revenue and earnings below expectations: Q1 2026 revenues were EUR 80.3m, a decrease of EUR 127.5m compared to Q1 2025 (EUR 208m). Q1 2026 EBITDA was EUR 5.3m, compared to EUR 59.0m in Q1 2025, mainly as a result of postponed sales o...
European Energy A/S: Q1 2026 report Company announcement 9/2026 (29.05.2026) European Energy announces its financial report for the first quarter of 2026. Highlights: Revenue and earnings below expectations: Q1 2026 revenues were EUR 80.3m, a decrease of EUR 127.5m compared to Q1 2025 (EUR 208m). Q1 2026 EBITDA was EUR 5.3m, compared to EUR 59.0m in Q1 2025, mainly as a result of postponed sales of energy parks and projects. Outlook 2026 maintained: The outlook announced 27 February 2026 with EBITDA expected in the range of EUR 200-300m for 2026 is maintained. Energy sales slightly below expectations: The total electricity production in Q1 2026 of 486 GWh was a decrease of 10 GWh or 2% compared to Q1 2025. Gross profit from sale of energy in Q1 2026 totalled EUR 24.7m, a decrease of 14% compared to Q1 2025, mainly as the result of the beforementioned lower production. Project sales postponed: Sale of assets, generating EUR 3.3m in gross profit down from EUR 48.9m in Q1 2025. Major project sale to be concluded primarily in the second half of 2026. Financial position strengthened: During Q1 2026, the Group strengthened its financial position through additional debt issuance under our bond programme. At the same time, we maintained a disciplined approach to cost and investment management. Construction activity with focus on BESS : A total of 1.2 GW of projects were under construction at the end of Q1 2026 with 813 MW of solar, 68 MW of wind parks and 296 MW of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and PtX of 6 MW. Construction activities are ongoing across 35 sites in nine European countries and Australia in a combination of solar, wind, BESS and PtX. In Q1 2026, we grid-connected a 106 MW solar park in Australia and inaugurated the Kvosted facility in Denmark, Northern Europe’s largest combined solar-and-battery park with a capacity of 50MW/200MWh. : BESS rollout starting a new income stream: The rollout of battery storage across our portfolio is becoming an increasin...
(RTTNews) - Paratus Energy Services (PLSV.OL) reported, under US GAAP, first quarter net income from continuing operations of $19.4 million compared to a loss of $13.3 million, prior year. Profit per share from continuing operations was $0.12 compared to a loss of $0.08. Operating income increased to $33.0 million from $19.0 million. On management reporting basis, net income from continuing operat...
(RTTNews) - Paratus Energy Services (PLSV.OL) reported, under US GAAP, first quarter net income from continuing operations of $19.4 million compared to a loss of $13.3 million, prior year. Profit per share from continuing operations was $0.12 compared to a loss of $0.08. Operating income increased to $33.0 million from $19.0 million. On management reporting basis, net income from continuing operations increased to $19.4 million from $16.0 million. Adjusted EBITDA was $45.6 million compared to $49.6 million. On management reporting basis, contract revenues were $74.9 million compared to $73.5 million. Paratus said its Board of Directors has authorized a quarterly cash distribution of $0.22 per share for first quarter. For more earnings news, earnings calendar, and earnings for stocks, visit rttnews.com. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
Nearly a year after launching its robotaxi service in Texas, Tesla has just 42 vehicles on the road, compared with Waymo's fleet of 577. The figures come from newly available records on the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles website, which were disclosed as part of a new state authorization process for autonomous-vehicle companies that took effect on Thursday. The records show Tesla has a smaller ...
Nearly a year after launching its robotaxi service in Texas, Tesla has just 42 vehicles on the road, compared with Waymo's fleet of 577. The figures come from newly available records on the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles website, which were disclosed as part of a new state authorization process for autonomous-vehicle companies that took effect on Thursday. The records show Tesla has a smaller Texas fleet than other autonomous-vehicle operators, including Avride, which has 317 vehicles, and Nuro, which has 47. Tesla launched a pilot of its robotaxi service in the state last June, initially offering rides to a limited group of invited users in Austin. Though the vehicles are intended to be fully self-driving, the company kept employees in the front passenger seat as an added safety measure. In January, Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's vice president of AI software, said that some of its robotaxis in Austin have begun operating without a human chaperone. "Starting with a few unsupervised vehicles mixed in with the broader robotaxi fleet with safety monitors, and the ratio will increase over time," he wrote on X. Beyond Austin, Tesla says on its website that its robotaxi service is available in parts of Dallas and Houston. In contrast, Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving unit, launched its own driverless service in Austin through a partnership with Uber in March 2025. Waymo's Texas service also extends to Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, though it temporarily suspended rides in those cities in the past month amid concerns about how its vehicles respond to flooded roads.
This is access-all-areas viewing, with this four-parter talking at length to Nadal, his wife, his coaches and opponents. But that doesn’t necessarily make it insightful… There’s a lovely sequence in the second episode of this four-part documentary about the career of Spain’s greatest ever tennis player. It’s 2007 and Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal are walking on to Wimbledon’s Centre Court to play t...
This is access-all-areas viewing, with this four-parter talking at length to Nadal, his wife, his coaches and opponents. But that doesn’t necessarily make it insightful… There’s a lovely sequence in the second episode of this four-part documentary about the career of Spain’s greatest ever tennis player. It’s 2007 and Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal are walking on to Wimbledon’s Centre Court to play the first of the many finals they would contest. Federer is poised and slightly smug; hair flopping perfectly over his headband, dressed in an immaculate white blazer. Nadal trails behind him, wearing a vest and baggy shorts, shaggy hair flowing and eyes wild, looking for all the world like a beautiful young caveman. It captures his initial appeal perfectly: in his early years, Nadal was elemental, athletic beyond description and impossibly charismatic: equal parts tennis player, action hero and acrobat. It feels like our sporting legends are increasingly reluctant to leave the stage. Lionel Messi (38) and Cristiano Ronaldo (41) will both be at this summer’s football World Cup. One of England’s greatest ever cricketers, James Anderson, turns 44 this year and is still plying his trade in the County Championship. Becoming unsurpassably brilliant at something requires laser focus, but unlike music or acting or writing, there’s a definitive best before date. And once that date has passed, a big, scary void looms. If the miracles of modern medicine allow you to continue, it’s clearly incredibly hard to walk away. Rafa is on Netflix Continue reading...
Pixelbizz/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Nikon ( NINOF ) ( NINOY ) plans to compete with ASML ( ASML ) by pricing its semiconductor photolithography equipment lower than its rival, Nikon’s new CEO Yasuhiro Ohmura told Nikkei. The lithography equipment maker produces many of its parts in-house, allowing it to price its products lower while still achieving profit, according to Ohmura, who was pre...
Pixelbizz/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Nikon ( NINOF ) ( NINOY ) plans to compete with ASML ( ASML ) by pricing its semiconductor photolithography equipment lower than its rival, Nikon’s new CEO Yasuhiro Ohmura told Nikkei. The lithography equipment maker produces many of its parts in-house, allowing it to price its products lower while still achieving profit, according to Ohmura, who was previously head of Nikon’s chipmaking unit. Nikon and ASML are the only companies that produce ArF lithography equipment. Intel ( INTC ) has previously made up 80% of Nikon’s ArF lithography orders. "We lacked a sufficient track record [aside from Intel] and our support capabilities hadn't earned trust," Ohmura said. Nikon has set its semiconductor equipment business as a key growth driver in its medium-term plan announced in May. The company is talking to multiple U.S. and Asian chipmakers and is "nearing purchase orders" for its argon fluoride lithography equipment, Ohmura told Nikkei. More on ASML Holding, Nikon Corporation ASML: Why Europe's AI Giant Is Not The Best Chip Buy ASML: The Question Is Whether Its Monopoly Can Outrun Its Premium Valuation ASML: Potential Bull Trap As AI Super Cycle Continues - Reiterate Hold Goldman Sachs sees funds fleeing software for semiconductors as tech trade evolves Notable analyst calls this week: Lam Research, Zscaler and Alcoa among top picks
Magnus Carlsen, the 35-year-old world No 1, has won the annual Norway Chess elite tournament, for six of the past seven years. However, he was shocked in Monday’s opening round by Alireza Firouzja, who had finished last at Bucharest the previous week in the Grand Chess Tour event won by Germany’s Vincent Keymer. The Frenchman, 22, defeated Carlsen for the first time in classical chess despite play...
Magnus Carlsen, the 35-year-old world No 1, has won the annual Norway Chess elite tournament, for six of the past seven years. However, he was shocked in Monday’s opening round by Alireza Firouzja, who had finished last at Bucharest the previous week in the Grand Chess Tour event won by Germany’s Vincent Keymer. The Frenchman, 22, defeated Carlsen for the first time in classical chess despite playing with a sprained ankle, caused by falling off a stage at Bucharest. It was the most high-profile success by a physically injured grandmaster since Tilburg 1985, where England’s Tony Miles shared first prize playing prone from a massage table after injuring his back. Carlsen has a deserved reputation for a pragmatic approach to his clock time, but in this game he slipped into time pressure in the critical moves leading up to the move 40 time control. 31... Qb7 was better than Carlsen’s 31...Qd7, and 32... Qb5 was better than Carlsen’s 32...Re8, but the decisive error came at move 33. Instead of the fatal blunder 33...Kg8?, after which Firouzja’s central pawns advanced decisively up the board, 33...Nxe3! would have held: 34 Qg6+ Kh8 and if 35 Ra7 Nd1!! 36 Bd2 (not 36 Rxd7?? Rxe1 mate) 36...Qxa7 37 Qxe8+ Kh7 and although Black is a pawn down, his queen and knight combine better than White’s queen and bishop (queen and knight against two rooks and a bishop is even better for the Q+N pairing). After 13 years in Stavanger, Norway Chess has moved to the Deichman Bjørvika library in central Oslo. The significance for Carlsen’s bad day at the office on Monday is that he has often declared that he prefers not to play in the capital to avoid hometown pressures, while one of his worst career results occurred in 2019 when he lost the final of the Fischer Random world championship (since rebranded as Freestyle) to Wesley So by the disastrous margin of 13.5-2.5 in a match played in the Oslo area. View image in fullscreen 4026 Gudmundur Sigurjonsson v Jan Timman, Wijk aan Zee 1980. Blac...
This article is part of the Guardian’s 2026 World Cup Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from three countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June. The plan The 2022 hosts’ preparations for the tournament were disrupted as the US-Iran war caused the cancella...
This article is part of the Guardian’s 2026 World Cup Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from three countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June. The plan The 2022 hosts’ preparations for the tournament were disrupted as the US-Iran war caused the cancellation of valuable friendlies against Serbia and champions Argentina in March. The coach, Julen Lopetegui, had wanted as many minutes as possible with his players, having only been appointed in May 2025. Worryingly, they had won only one out of 11 games under the former Spain and Real Madrid manager before the World Cup warm-up games. Lopetegui did what he had to do though, making sure Qatar reached the World Cup finals, but it was a close call. The Maroons finished fourth out of six teams in the main qualifying group before – aided by home advantage and a favourable schedule – drawing 0-0 with Oman and beating UAE 2-1 to ensure qualification. Quick Guide Qatar: Group B fixtures Show 13 June v Switzerland, San Francisco (noon local, 8pm BST) 18 June v Canada, Vancouver (3pm local, 11pm BST) 24 June v Bosnia and Herzegovina, Seattle (noon local, 8pm BST) Was this helpful? Thank you for your feedback. The Spanish coach, the latest of several Iberian appointments (Félix Sánchez, Bruno Pinheiro, Carlos Queiroz, Tintín Márquez and Luis García) has tried out several different formations but is likely to go with a 4-2-3-1 when the tournament starts. The lessons from the last World Cup have been debated at length. Then, it was over pretty much before it had started as the hosts, perhaps burdened by a buildup that lasted 12 years, went 2-0 down within 31 minutes of their opening game to Ecuador, and it could have been even more. Expect a more solid set-up this time around; a focus on keeping things tight and looking to hit group opponents Canada, Switzerland and Bosnia and Herzegovina...
The comedy legend, who adopted his silent persona because of stage nerves, did occasionally address his audience, as revealed by a new archive release Groucho was the cigar-chomping wit with the improbable moustache, Chico was the piano-playing rustic grifter and Zeppo played the straight man and the lover. But as any Marx Brothers fan knows, Harpo was the pantomime, who cracked up the audience wi...
The comedy legend, who adopted his silent persona because of stage nerves, did occasionally address his audience, as revealed by a new archive release Groucho was the cigar-chomping wit with the improbable moustache, Chico was the piano-playing rustic grifter and Zeppo played the straight man and the lover. But as any Marx Brothers fan knows, Harpo was the pantomime, who cracked up the audience without saying a word, dressed in his tattered raincoat and curly wig. His persona was childlike and mischievous but also musical – he let his harp and his taxi horn do the talking. But now we get to see, or rather hear, a new side to Harpo Marx. A very special recording has been unearthed of Harpo in 1964 speaking to an audience, in character. Arthur “Harpo” Marx was born Adolph Marx in New York in 1888. He started performing with his brothers in 1910, and his nickname probably came about because of his instrument of choice – he was an entirely self-taught musician. By 1915, due to his nerves around speaking on stage, Harpo reinvented himself as a mute clown, and stayed that way, even when he was offered $50,000 to speak a single word (“Murder!”) in the Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca (1946). Continue reading...