On Monday, we’ll pick up on the fallout from Italy’s incursion to the right after wrapping up an ill-tempered election campaign. The Financial Times started early on with Big Read. What it means to run the far right for the rest of Europe.
We also have elections in Latvia, Bulgaria, Kuwait and Bosnia and Herzegovina this week. But the big round will be on Sunday with the first round of the Brazilian presidential election. The frontrunner in the race is the former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da SilvaBut the incumbent is Jair Bolsonaro away from the race. tensions running high.
A smaller but important vote takes place on Thursday, when a City of London councilman decides the next Lord Mayor. This largely ceremonial role will be key to promoting the UK’s financial center, so it is important. Hopefully the ballot will not be as controversial as Last few years.
Aside from the elections, it’s a solid week for space travel. On Monday, NASA will be spacecraft crash to an asteroid at 23,000 kilometers per hour in order to divert its course. The $300 million Dart mission, short for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, chose an asteroid called Dimorphos as its target because it orbits another asteroid instead of the Sun.
The US space agency will be busy again the day after the launch of Artemis I, the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to create a permanent human base on the Moon.
If that wasn’t enough, the week will end with the London Marathon returning, albeit six months later than it was normally scheduled in April, to enable it to happen at all after the disruption caused by the pandemic.
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Continuing the theme of play, Puzzle Games (The name is derived from the Danish phrase leg gout, or “play well”) announced the semi-annual results on Wednesday. The toy maker directed analysts to expect sales normalization afterwards Pandemic boom But expectations are high that sales will continue to outpace competitors in this segment.
For petrol chiefs, Thursday is an exciting day because getting involved Porsche Trading will begin on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange after the long-awaited flotation of the luxury car brand.
It’s a bleaker week for silver screen fans. Sick House movie series Cineworld He will announce his semi-annual results on Friday. Although the group is expected to post a profit, unlike last year’s loss, focus will shift to its latest cash position and level of net debt after the company filed for bankruptcy protection in the US earlier this month.
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This will be a week to see how the economies are performing and how the public expects them to perform with GDP numbers from the US, Canada and UK as well as several consumer confidence surveys.
We will also get more insights into the battle in Europe to cool inflation with the release of CPI and PPI readings from Germany, France and Italy.
Read the full calendar for the next week over here.
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