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Tο Γραφείο Προϋπολογισμού του Κράτους στη Βουλή διατηρεί την πρόβλεψή του για ανάπτυξη 2,2% φέτος, επισημαίνοντας στην έκθεσή του για το 4ο τρίμηνο ότι η ελληνική οικονομία συνεχίζει να αναπτύσσεται παρά τις δυσκολίες προερχόμενες τόσο από το εξωτερικό περιβάλλον (γεωπολιτικές εντάσεις, τιμές ενέργειας κ.ά.) όσο και από το εγχώριο περιβάλλον (φυσικές καταστροφές, όπως οι πλημμύρες και οι δασικές πυρκαγιές) διατηρώντας θετικούς ρυθμούς μεγέθυνσης.

Ικανοποίηση για τα δημοσιονομικά δεδομένα και τους ρυθμούς ανάπτυξης εκφράζει η Κομισιόν στην 3η μεταμνημονιακή έκθεσή της για την Ελλάδα, στέλνοντας παράλληλα μηνύματα για τα κόκκινα δάνεια.

Oil futures extended a decline Thursday after news reports said Angola announced plans to exit the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries after being required to lower its production quota in a contentious meeting earlier this month.

China, the world’s top processor of rare earths, on Thursday banned the export of technology to extract and separate the strategic metals, in a further step towards protecting its dominance in several strategic metals

Honda Motor’s American unit is recalling about 2.5 million vehicles over risks of fuel pump failure that can cause an engine stall while driving and increase the chances of a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said.

Angola is leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) because membership is not serving its interests, oil minister Diamantino Azevedo said on Thursday.

The U.S. economy expanded at a revised 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, a surprising burst of growth that appears to have tapered off at year end.

Japan’s government on Thursday slightly raised its economic growth projections for this fiscal year from its previous estimates, as external demand is likely to more than offset weak domestic consumption, the Cabinet Office said.

The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week inched up to 205,000, indicating layoffs remain very low during the holiday season and jobs aren’t especially hard to find.

STOCKHOLM, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Tesla faces an inquiry by Norway’s traffic safety regulator into suspension failures in the company’s electric cars that could result in a recall, the agency told Reuters.

Oil futures pulled back early Thursday after a build in U.S. petroleum supplies and record domestic production cooled a rally sparked by disrupted shipments in the Red Sea.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies gained on Thursday—despite an absence of major crypto catalysts—as traders remained bullish on the momentum behind digital asset prices into the end of the year.

The sharp fall came after Toyota announced a recall of about a million vehicles on Thursday.

CarMax stock rose sharply after the used-car retailer reported a mixed quarter, and resumed share buybacks.

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, suffered major outages in the early hours of Thursday morning that left users unable to access the site.

The Biden administration is looking into increasing tariffs on Chinese electric-vehicle exports to improve the U.S.’s clean energy standing, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Shares of BlackBerry fell 1.7% after hours on Wednesday after the security-software maker forecast fourth-quarter sales that were below Wall Street’s expectations. 

 Boeing is set to restart deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner to China within days, a source told Reuters, a step that could pave the way for China to also end a more than four-year freeze on deliveries of Boeing’s profit-making 737 MAX.

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