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Proceeds will fund the Aurora Link subsea interconnector and substation upgrades through 2031.\",\n \"summary\": \"## The deal\\n\\nBaltic transmission system operator Elvara raised 2.4 billion euros on Tuesday in its largest green bond sale to date, the company said. The 12-year bond drew orders of more than 7 billion euros, leaving the book close to three times covered. Wire Alpha and Agence Gamma reported the 2.4 billion euro figure, the French agency writing it as 2,400 million euros. MarketPulse Daily described a 24 billion euro transaction, ten times higher and at odds with the order book its own report acknowledged. Elvara's sale is the third benchmark green issue from a Baltic utility this year, according to Wire Alpha. The company operates electricity transmission infrastructure in the Baltic region; MarketPulse Daily described it as a grid group. The gap between demand and the amount raised exceeded 4.6 billion euros.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Demand and pricing\\n\\nThe bond priced at 98 basis points over mid-swaps, tightening from initial guidance of 115 basis points. Agence Gamma independently confirmed the 98 basis point spread and the twelve-year maturity. The 17 basis point tightening let Elvara lock in cheaper funding than first indicated. MarketPulse Daily gave no spread but said the deal priced inside guidance, with the book several times covered. Chief financial officer Marta Ruane said the order book included 214 institutional accounts, the only investor count in any of the reports. Analysts cited by MarketPulse Daily called the result a sign of strong demand for green bonds in the Baltic market.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Where the money goes\\n\\nProceeds are earmarked for the Aurora Link, a subsea electricity interconnector, and for upgrades to substations scheduled through 2031. Wire Alpha and Agence Gamma tied the financing to those two workstreams; MarketPulse Daily referred to the Aurora Link cable and a package of substation work. The 2031 horizon is the only dated milestone in the reports and gives Elvara a multi-year schedule over which to deploy the funds. None of the reports provides a project-by-project breakdown of the proceeds. None says which countries the Aurora Link will connect or when the cable is due to enter service.\\n\\n## Where the reports differ\\n\\nBeyond the headline number, the two newswire accounts agree on every material term: the more than 7 billion euro order book, the 98 basis point spread, the twelve-year maturity, the use of proceeds and the 214 institutional accounts. MarketPulse Daily called its version of the deal one of the biggest the region has ever seen, attributing that assessment to people watching the transaction. It offered no breakdown supporting the 24 billion euro figure, and neither of the other outlets reported anything close to it. On the available record, 2.4 billion euros is the figure supported by two independent reports and by the company's own statement as carried by Wire Alpha. 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Proceeds will fund the Aurora Link subsea interconnector and substation upgrades through 2031.", "summary": "## The deal\n\nBaltic transmission system operator Elvara raised 2.4 billion euros on Tuesday in its largest green bond sale to date, the company said. The 12-year bond drew orders of more than 7 billion euros, leaving the book close to three times covered. Wire Alpha and Agence Gamma reported the 2.4 billion euro figure, the French agency writing it as 2,400 million euros. MarketPulse Daily described a 24 billion euro transaction, ten times higher and at odds with the order book its own report acknowledged. Elvara's sale is the third benchmark green issue from a Baltic utility this year, according to Wire Alpha. The company operates electricity transmission infrastructure in the Baltic region; MarketPulse Daily described it as a grid group. The gap between demand and the amount raised exceeded 4.6 billion euros.\n\n\n\n## Demand and pricing\n\nThe bond priced at 98 basis points over mid-swaps, tightening from initial guidance of 115 basis points. Agence Gamma independently confirmed the 98 basis point spread and the twelve-year maturity. The 17 basis point tightening let Elvara lock in cheaper funding than first indicated. MarketPulse Daily gave no spread but said the deal priced inside guidance, with the book several times covered. Chief financial officer Marta Ruane said the order book included 214 institutional accounts, the only investor count in any of the reports. Analysts cited by MarketPulse Daily called the result a sign of strong demand for green bonds in the Baltic market.\n\n\n\n## Where the money goes\n\nProceeds are earmarked for the Aurora Link, a subsea electricity interconnector, and for upgrades to substations scheduled through 2031. 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It offered no breakdown supporting the 24 billion euro figure, and neither of the other outlets reported anything close to it. On the available record, 2.4 billion euros is the figure supported by two independent reports and by the company's own statement as carried by Wire Alpha. 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For the whole continent it was the second hottest June, at 19.14°C. Globally, June 2026 ranked second after June 2024, with an average surface air temperature of 16.54°C: 0.56°C above the 1991-2020 norm and 1.39°C above the estimated pre-industrial average for 1850-1900. Average sea surface temperature across oceans outside the polar regions reached 20.86°C, the highest ever for the month, 0.01°C above the 2024 mark.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Three heatwaves in quick succession\\n\\nThe June record was driven by an intense heatwave in the second half of the month that broke monthly and, in several countries, all-time daily temperature records. It came only weeks after an early heatwave in May pushed felt temperatures to between 35°C and 40°C in western Europe, and another episode was already forming in early July. 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Severe drought fed fires across southern Europe and triggered EU emergency mechanisms; the burned area is 56% above the usual average for this point in the year. In France, flames destroyed more than 35,000 hectares, four times the seasonal average, and a 22-year-old firefighter died during an intervention in the Alps. Spain lost more than 55,000 hectares to fire, and Barcelona set an all-time record of 40.5°C on Wednesday 8 July. The drought also raised risks in eastern Europe.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Britain's record run of hot days\\n\\nOn Thursday 9 July the United Kingdom logged its eighth day of 2026 above 34°C, measured at Wisley in Surrey: a record for the most days at 34°C or more in a calendar year, the Met Office said on X. The previous record of seven days dated from both 2020 and 1976. England had already recorded its hottest June since measurements began in 1884. 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For the whole continent it was the second hottest June, at 19.14°C. Globally, June 2026 ranked second after June 2024, with an average surface air temperature of 16.54°C: 0.56°C above the 1991-2020 norm and 1.39°C above the estimated pre-industrial average for 1850-1900. Average sea surface temperature across oceans outside the polar regions reached 20.86°C, the highest ever for the month, 0.01°C above the 2024 mark.\n\n\n\n## Three heatwaves in quick succession\n\nThe June record was driven by an intense heatwave in the second half of the month that broke monthly and, in several countries, all-time daily temperature records. It came only weeks after an early heatwave in May pushed felt temperatures to between 35°C and 40°C in western Europe, and another episode was already forming in early July. High pressure created a \"heat dome\" effect, like a lid on a boiling pot, and humidity meant little relief at night, said Samantha Burgess, strategic climate lead at ECMWF, which operates Copernicus.\n\nIt was extremely humid, which then meant we people didn't get relief at night. So we had a number of tropical nights in a row.\n\nThe Mediterranean went through its hottest marine heatwave on record and Atlantic coasts saw hot spells, putting ecosystems at risk. More than two-thirds of Europeans, 410 million people, endured temperatures above 35°C during the June heatwave, according to AFP.\n\n## Deaths, drought and wildfires\n\nThousands of deaths were linked to the heatwave, mostly in France, Spain and Belgium; the heat also forced school closures and transport disruptions. Belgium's heatwave, which ran from 18 June to 1 July, caused 1,747 additional deaths, an excess mortality of 47.8%. Severe drought fed fires across southern Europe and triggered EU emergency mechanisms; the burned area is 56% above the usual average for this point in the year. In France, flames destroyed more than 35,000 hectares, four times the seasonal average, and a 22-year-old firefighter died during an intervention in the Alps. Spain lost more than 55,000 hectares to fire, and Barcelona set an all-time record of 40.5°C on Wednesday 8 July. The drought also raised risks in eastern Europe.\n\n\n\n## Britain's record run of hot days\n\nOn Thursday 9 July the United Kingdom logged its eighth day of 2026 above 34°C, measured at Wisley in Surrey: a record for the most days at 34°C or more in a calendar year, the Met Office said on X. The previous record of seven days dated from both 2020 and 1976. England had already recorded its hottest June since measurements began in 1884. The country is in its third heatwave of the year, which could last up to ten days, and two-thirds of the population have suffered severe insomnia during tropical nights, according to a recent survey. Emergency authorities appealed for maximum caution to prevent new fires.\n\n\n\n## A climate system accumulating heat\n\nEurope is the world's fastest-warming continent, and Copernicus said changes in atmospheric circulation are making heatwaves more frequent and more intense. The bulletin partly attributed the global figures to the returning El Niño in the equatorial Pacific, where conditions are expected to intensify rapidly in the coming months. Arctic sea ice extent in June was about 5% below the monthly average. Scientists say such extremes are becoming more frequent and intense because of human-driven climate change.\n\nThese records indicate a climate system that continues to accumulate heat. 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He had surgery, was racing again four months later, won his first professional race at the 2024 Tour de Suisse and spent four days in the red jersey at last year's Vuelta a Espana, finishing ninth overall.\\n\\nIt is, of course, a bit of a boyhood dream coming true. A good day at work, as one would say.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Pogacar's calculated rest day\\n\\nPogacar, who had taken yellow with the 22nd Tour stage win of his career on Monday, made no effort to keep it. Handing over the jersey spares him podium and media duties he said cost an hour and a half on Monday and can stretch to two hours, recovery he wants before Thursday's mountain stage over the Col du Tourmalet to the foot of the cirque de Gavarnie. The Slovenian called regaining the lead a goal but conceded the deficit is sizeable and praised Traeen's climbing.\\n\\n## Racing in a furnace\\n\\nTemperatures again climbed above 40 degrees Celsius, and riders spent the stage spraying each other with water and stuffing ice into their bib shorts. The UCI and organisers ASO relaxed feeding rules, allowing extra water bottles and more drinks motorbikes on a trial basis, with the heat expected to persist in coming days. Even Pogacar suffered.\\n\\nWhen the stage began I had a really terrible headache and I thought: this is going to be a long day. But then we kept splashing each other with water, and it was okay again.\\n\\nThe professional riders' union judged the response insufficient.\\n\\nIt's the least worst option. 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A 34-rider breakaway formed early on the 181.9-km hilly stage from Carcassonne and was allowed to build a lead that never came back. Ten riders survived the four classified climbs to contest the finish after the Category Two Col de Montsegur (6.9 km at 6.6%), 34 km from the line, and three of them were from Lidl-Trek: Pedersen, Simmons and Mathias Vacek. Vacek drove the pace under the flamme rouge and, although France's Kevin Vauquelin swept through the final corner first after a late attack, Pedersen unleashed the stronger sprint.\n\nThis was I would say a masterpiece of teamwork. They were just machines to the finish.\n\nIt was the 30-year-old former world champion's third Tour stage victory, his 12th in a Grand Tour and his first at the Tour since 2023. He also took the green points jersey from Tadej Pogacar for the first time in his career, dedicating the win to departing Lidl-Trek manager Luca Guercilena.\n\n\n\n## Cancer survivor takes yellow\n\nTorstein Traeen, eighth on the stage, was the best-placed escapee overall and inherited the yellow jersey as the peloton rolled in around 13 minutes down. The 30-year-old Uno-X Mobility rider leads American Sean Quinn by 28 seconds, Vacek by three minutes 50 seconds and Pogacar by 7:53, with Jonas Vingegaard on the same time as the Slovenian. He is the third Norwegian to lead the Tour after Alexander Kristoff (2020) and Thor Hushovd (2004, 2006, 2011), now his team boss at Uno-X.\n\nThe jersey completes a comeback from the testicular cancer diagnosed in May 2022, revealed when a routine anti-doping control detected a hormone that stimulates testosterone production. He had surgery, was racing again four months later, won his first professional race at the 2024 Tour de Suisse and spent four days in the red jersey at last year's Vuelta a Espana, finishing ninth overall.\n\nIt is, of course, a bit of a boyhood dream coming true. A good day at work, as one would say.\n\n\n\n## Pogacar's calculated rest day\n\nPogacar, who had taken yellow with the 22nd Tour stage win of his career on Monday, made no effort to keep it. Handing over the jersey spares him podium and media duties he said cost an hour and a half on Monday and can stretch to two hours, recovery he wants before Thursday's mountain stage over the Col du Tourmalet to the foot of the cirque de Gavarnie. The Slovenian called regaining the lead a goal but conceded the deficit is sizeable and praised Traeen's climbing.\n\n## Racing in a furnace\n\nTemperatures again climbed above 40 degrees Celsius, and riders spent the stage spraying each other with water and stuffing ice into their bib shorts. 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The Pulse poll for SKAI, conducted 3-7 July 2026 on a sample of 1,108 citizens, puts the governing party at 26% in voting intention and ELAS at 15%, with PASOK third at 10% and Maria Karystianou's Hope for Democracy fourth at 7.5%. Greek Solution follows with 7%, the KKE with 6%, Course of Freedom with 4.5% and Voice of Reason with 3%, while undecided voters slipped from 12% to 11%. In the vote estimate, after the undecided are distributed, New Democracy reaches 30% and ELAS 17%, a gap of 13 points, with PASOK at 11.5%. SYRIZA (2%), the Kasselakis party (1%) and NIKI (1%) would stay outside a nine-party parliament.\\n\\n\\n\\n## MRB points the same way\\n\\nThe MRB 'Trends' poll for OPEN, released earlier on Thursday, shows a similar picture with lower raw figures and a larger grey zone. New Democracy leads voting intention with 23.8% against 14.4% for ELAS and 9.1% for PASOK, with undecided, blank and abstention votes totaling 18%. In MRB's vote estimate, New Democracy rises to 29% and ELAS to 17.6%, a lead of 11.4 points. The same survey records wear for the government: 69.5% say there should be a change of government, only 25.8% believe New Democracy deserves a third term, and 51.3% doubt the party will recover against 38.6% who think it will. Kyriakos Mitsotakis stays first as most suitable for prime minister, at 30% in Pulse and 25.1% in MRB, ahead of Tsipras at 17% and 15.1%; 'no one' scores 17% and 16% respectively.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Voters eye a 2026 ballot\\n\\nPulse finds 46% of respondents want national elections within 2026, against 33% who prefer the government to complete its four-year term in 2027 and 16% with no preference. The split follows party lines: 72% of New Democracy voters want the 2027 timeline, while 78% of ELAS voters, 64% of Hope for Democracy voters and 60% of Greek Solution voters back snap polls this year. On the shape of the next government, 45% prefer a single-party majority and 38% a coalition, with 91% of New Democracy voters choosing single-party rule.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Coalition math and the Samaras factor\\n\\nIf no party wins an outright majority, 52% of New Democracy voters want PASOK in a coalition government, despite the refusal of PASOK's Harilaou Trikoupi headquarters to cooperate with the governing party. PASOK's own voters are cooler: 32% reject any cooperation, 20% choose New Democracy and 18% ELAS. Among ELAS voters, 45% name PASOK as the ideal partner, 11% Karystianou's party, 9% Course of Freedom and just 1% SYRIZA; 55% of ELAS's current electorate had voted SYRIZA in the last elections. The poll also measures a potential new party from former prime minister Antonis Samaras: potential influence rose from 11% to 13%, 5% would definitely vote for it (up from 3%), and 79% would probably or definitely not.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Cost of living dominates concerns\\n\\nHigh prices remain the dominant issue. In the Pulse data, 89% rank the cost of living as the most important problem (46%) or one of the most important (43%). In MRB, inflation tops the problem list at 49.5%, ahead of health care (34.7%), low wages and incomes (33.5%), transparency and corruption (24.5%), and housing, which appears in the list for the first time at 17.1%. Relations with Turkey worry 56% of respondents a lot or quite a bit, with 22% moderately concerned and 17% little or not at all.\",\n \"keyPoints\": [\n {\n \"title\": \"ND leads both polls, but 69.5% want change\",\n \"description\": \"Pulse (SKAI) puts New Democracy at 30% and ELAS at 17% in the vote estimate; MRB (OPEN) has 29% vs 17.6%. 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The Pulse poll for SKAI, conducted 3-7 July 2026 on a sample of 1,108 citizens, puts the governing party at 26% in voting intention and ELAS at 15%, with PASOK third at 10% and Maria Karystianou's Hope for Democracy fourth at 7.5%. Greek Solution follows with 7%, the KKE with 6%, Course of Freedom with 4.5% and Voice of Reason with 3%, while undecided voters slipped from 12% to 11%. In the vote estimate, after the undecided are distributed, New Democracy reaches 30% and ELAS 17%, a gap of 13 points, with PASOK at 11.5%. SYRIZA (2%), the Kasselakis party (1%) and NIKI (1%) would stay outside a nine-party parliament.\n\n\n\n## MRB points the same way\n\nThe MRB 'Trends' poll for OPEN, released earlier on Thursday, shows a similar picture with lower raw figures and a larger grey zone. New Democracy leads voting intention with 23.8% against 14.4% for ELAS and 9.1% for PASOK, with undecided, blank and abstention votes totaling 18%. In MRB's vote estimate, New Democracy rises to 29% and ELAS to 17.6%, a lead of 11.4 points. The same survey records wear for the government: 69.5% say there should be a change of government, only 25.8% believe New Democracy deserves a third term, and 51.3% doubt the party will recover against 38.6% who think it will. Kyriakos Mitsotakis stays first as most suitable for prime minister, at 30% in Pulse and 25.1% in MRB, ahead of Tsipras at 17% and 15.1%; 'no one' scores 17% and 16% respectively.\n\n\n\n## Voters eye a 2026 ballot\n\nPulse finds 46% of respondents want national elections within 2026, against 33% who prefer the government to complete its four-year term in 2027 and 16% with no preference. The split follows party lines: 72% of New Democracy voters want the 2027 timeline, while 78% of ELAS voters, 64% of Hope for Democracy voters and 60% of Greek Solution voters back snap polls this year. 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The reading is up from 2.2% in May, a jump of 1.9 percentage points in a single month, and is the highest inflation reading in the currency bloc since 2023. The pace is close to double the May rate. Core inflation, the measure that strips out energy and food, also moved higher, rising to 2.6% from 2.4%. The contrast between the two moves, 1.9 points for the headline against 0.2 points for the core, locates most of the acceleration in the volatile energy component rather than in broad-based price growth.\\n\\n## Energy and the Strait of Hormuz\\nThe statistics office attributed most of the jump to energy base effects, the arithmetic impact of comparing current price levels with those of a year earlier. Alongside that, transport fuel prices rose 9.8% year on year following the shipping disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, the largest single contribution identified in the release. Both the English-language report from Wire Alpha and the German-language report from Kurier Beta identify the same pairing of causes: base effects in energy plus the Hormuz-driven rise in fuel costs. Kurier Beta described the overall increase as unexpected. Because the figure is a flash estimate, it is an early reading that precedes the more detailed final data.\\n\\n\\n\\n## A wide miss against forecasts\\nEconomists polled before the release had expected a headline figure of 2.9%. The actual print of 4.1% overshot that consensus by 1.2 percentage points. Even the expected figure would have represented an acceleration from May's 2.2%, so forecasters did anticipate some pickup from energy. What they did not capture was the scale of it. 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Markets now price a September rate increase.\",\n \"keywords\": [\n \"eurozone inflation\",\n \"June flash estimate\",\n \"core inflation 2.6%\",\n \"Strait of Hormuz shipping disruption\",\n \"September rate increase\",\n \"transport fuel prices\"\n ],\n \"hashtags\": [\"#Eurozone\", \"#Inflation\", \"#InterestRates\", \"#FuelPrices\"]\n },\n \"qualityScore\": 7\n}", "output": { "title": "Eurozone inflation jumps to 4.1% in June, highest since 2023, as Hormuz disruption lifts fuel prices", "shortHeadline": "Eurozone inflation jumps to 4.1% on energy shock", "ultraShortHeadline": "Eurozone inflation hits 4.1%", "lead": "Consumer prices in the eurozone rose 4.1% year on year in June, up from 2.2% in May, after energy base effects and a 9.8% rise in fuel prices linked to the Strait of Hormuz shipping disruption, the statistics office's flash estimate showed.", "summary": "## What the data shows\nConsumer prices in the eurozone rose 4.1% year on year in June, the statistics office said in its flash estimate published on Friday. The reading is up from 2.2% in May, a jump of 1.9 percentage points in a single month, and is the highest inflation reading in the currency bloc since 2023. The pace is close to double the May rate. Core inflation, the measure that strips out energy and food, also moved higher, rising to 2.6% from 2.4%. The contrast between the two moves, 1.9 points for the headline against 0.2 points for the core, locates most of the acceleration in the volatile energy component rather than in broad-based price growth.\n\n## Energy and the Strait of Hormuz\nThe statistics office attributed most of the jump to energy base effects, the arithmetic impact of comparing current price levels with those of a year earlier. Alongside that, transport fuel prices rose 9.8% year on year following the shipping disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, the largest single contribution identified in the release. Both the English-language report from Wire Alpha and the German-language report from Kurier Beta identify the same pairing of causes: base effects in energy plus the Hormuz-driven rise in fuel costs. Kurier Beta described the overall increase as unexpected. Because the figure is a flash estimate, it is an early reading that precedes the more detailed final data.\n\n\n\n## A wide miss against forecasts\nEconomists polled before the release had expected a headline figure of 2.9%. The actual print of 4.1% overshot that consensus by 1.2 percentage points. Even the expected figure would have represented an acceleration from May's 2.2%, so forecasters did anticipate some pickup from energy. What they did not capture was the scale of it. The core rate's rise to 2.6% from 2.4% added a second, smaller layer of firmness beyond the energy story, showing that underlying price pressure ticked up as well rather than holding steady.\n\n\n\n## Markets reprice the September meeting\nMoney markets moved after the release to price a higher probability of an interest rate increase at the September meeting. That repricing follows directly from the size of the forecast miss: a 2.9% outcome would have left the policy debate broadly intact, while 4.1%, the highest since 2023, puts a rate response on the table. Fuel costs remain tied to developments in the Strait of Hormuz, where the shipping disruption pushed transport fuel prices up 9.8%, so the path of energy prices between now and September will shape how persistent the spike proves. For now, the flash estimate stands as the first June data point, and the final reading with fuller detail will follow. 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The three affected districts are Nordholm, Esteby and Varn. The breach followed two days of record rainfall over the province. The civil protection agency coordinated the evacuations, moving people out of low-lying parts of Nordholm and Esteby as the water rose. In Varn, the evacuation was precautionary, with residents taken to shelters when a levee showed signs of seepage. Two bridges remain closed.\\n\\n## Evacuation counts by district\\n\\nThe agency said 340 people were moved from low-lying parts of Nordholm and 280 from Esteby, alongside 190 precautionary evacuees from Varn. The three published counts cover a combined 810 evacuations, but because of the overlap the combined figure may count some residents twice. The agency declined to give an overall figure of its own, saying the counts were changing hourly. Some residents returned home during the day while others left voluntarily, keeping the totals in flux. Officials later repeated that the district-level counts were provisional and overlapping, since some residents were counted in more than one district after moving between shelters. Nordholm's 340 is the largest single district figure published.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Gauge at highest since 1987\\n\\nWater levels at the Orla gauge reached 4.6 metres, the highest since records began in 1987. The 4.6-metre level was reached after two days of record rain over the province. The flood crest passed through Nordholm on Thursday night. Emergency shelters in the district took in evacuees through the night as the crest moved through. Officials repeated that the figures were provisional, noting that residents moving between shelters could be counted in more than one district.\\n\\n## Livestock losses in Esteby\\n\\nFarmers reported livestock losses in the Esteby lowlands, the first indication of the flood's cost to agriculture in the province. No figure for the losses has been published. The affected lowlands lie in the same district from which 280 people were evacuated on Thursday. The lowlands are the farming part of the district, where producers were already counting animal losses on Thursday. Damage assessments are to begin once the water recedes.\\n\\n## What comes next\\n\\nThe meteorological office said rainfall would ease by Saturday. The forecast is for the first easing after two days of record rainfall and Thursday's breach. Until the water recedes, damage assessments in the Esteby lowlands cannot begin. Two bridges closed on Thursday remain shut. The levee at Varn, which showed signs of seepage, prompted the precautionary evacuation of 190 residents and remains a focus of the response. 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Evacuations in three districts, a 4.6-metre gauge, the highest since 1987.\",\n \"keywords\": [\"Orla river flood\", \"Vestland evacuations\", \"Nordholm flooding\", \"Esteby livestock losses\", \"record rainfall Vestland\"],\n \"hashtags\": [\"#OrlaFlood\", \"#Vestland\", \"#FloodEvacuations\", \"#RecordRainfall\"]\n },\n \"qualityScore\": 5\n}", "output": { "title": "Flooding on the Orla river forces evacuations in three Vestland districts as water hits 4.6-metre record", "shortHeadline": "Orla river flooding forces evacuations across three Vestland districts", "ultraShortHeadline": "Orla flood displaces hundreds", "lead": "The Orla river burst its banks on Thursday after two days of record rainfall, forcing evacuations in Nordholm (340 people), Esteby (280) and Varn (190); the gauge hit 4.6 metres, the highest since 1987.", "summary": "## River bursts its banks\n\nRising floodwaters forced authorities to evacuate residents across three districts of Vestland province on Thursday after the Orla river burst its banks. The three affected districts are Nordholm, Esteby and Varn. The breach followed two days of record rainfall over the province. The civil protection agency coordinated the evacuations, moving people out of low-lying parts of Nordholm and Esteby as the water rose. In Varn, the evacuation was precautionary, with residents taken to shelters when a levee showed signs of seepage. Two bridges remain closed.\n\n## Evacuation counts by district\n\nThe agency said 340 people were moved from low-lying parts of Nordholm and 280 from Esteby, alongside 190 precautionary evacuees from Varn. The three published counts cover a combined 810 evacuations, but because of the overlap the combined figure may count some residents twice. The agency declined to give an overall figure of its own, saying the counts were changing hourly. Some residents returned home during the day while others left voluntarily, keeping the totals in flux. Officials later repeated that the district-level counts were provisional and overlapping, since some residents were counted in more than one district after moving between shelters. Nordholm's 340 is the largest single district figure published.\n\n\n\n## Gauge at highest since 1987\n\nWater levels at the Orla gauge reached 4.6 metres, the highest since records began in 1987. The 4.6-metre level was reached after two days of record rain over the province. The flood crest passed through Nordholm on Thursday night. Emergency shelters in the district took in evacuees through the night as the crest moved through. Officials repeated that the figures were provisional, noting that residents moving between shelters could be counted in more than one district.\n\n## Livestock losses in Esteby\n\nFarmers reported livestock losses in the Esteby lowlands, the first indication of the flood's cost to agriculture in the province. No figure for the losses has been published. The affected lowlands lie in the same district from which 280 people were evacuated on Thursday. The lowlands are the farming part of the district, where producers were already counting animal losses on Thursday. Damage assessments are to begin once the water recedes.\n\n## What comes next\n\nThe meteorological office said rainfall would ease by Saturday. The forecast is for the first easing after two days of record rainfall and Thursday's breach. Until the water recedes, damage assessments in the Esteby lowlands cannot begin. Two bridges closed on Thursday remain shut. The levee at Varn, which showed signs of seepage, prompted the precautionary evacuation of 190 residents and remains a focus of the response. 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The rate remains 9.3 percentage points below the OECD average of 72.1%, leaving Italy among the lowest in the group, with the gap particularly marked among women and young people. The organisation also warns that employment growth has slowed significantly over the past year, unlike the sustained increase seen in other Southern European countries.\\n\\nUnemployment moved the other way, falling to 5% in May 2026, a record low in line with the OECD average of 4.9% and 1.5 percentage points below a year earlier. The decline runs against the broader trend: unemployment has risen in about two-thirds of OECD countries, and Italy belongs to a small Southern European group, alongside Spain, Portugal and Greece, where it has continued to fall.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Pay packets lose ground\\n\\nMore jobs have not restored purchasing power. Real wages grew 1.3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, mainly thanks to low inflation, but they remain 6.1% lower than in the first quarter of 2021, the widest gap among large OECD economies. The recent surge in energy prices, which the organisation links to the Middle East conflict, is pushing inflation up and real wages down again.\\n\\nAndrea Garnero, senior economist at the OECD's employment directorate, explained the mechanism to Il Sole 24 Ore.\\n\\nInflation in Italy is at levels similar to other countries; the point is that nominal wages here are lower, so as soon as the tide of inflation rises, wages end up underwater. Despite the improvement from contract renewals, real wages remain below 2021 levels. The gap, which was 7-8 points, has narrowed but is still the highest among OECD countries, and corresponds roughly to 20 days of unpaid work compared to 2021, at equal purchasing power.\\n\\nAssuming the Middle East conflict's repercussions stay relatively short-lived, the OECD projects Italian real wages will decline 0.9% in 2026 and rise only 0.2% in 2027, citing the limited number of contract renewals planned for 2027 and persistent labour-market slack. It estimates inflation at 3% in 2026 and 2.2% in 2027, with nominal wages growing about 2.2% and 2.4% respectively.\\n\\n\\n\\n## A divided labour market\\n\\nThe Italy factsheet describes wide territorial disparities.\\n\\nWhere you live determines job opportunities and living standards.\\n\\nUnemployment in the weakest quintile of Italian provinces is more than four times that of the strongest, against an OECD average of about two. The distance has narrowed by 10.4% relative to the national average since early 2010, but internal migration is not closing it: those leaving low-employment areas are on average younger, more educated and more often already employed. Garnero also points to non-compete clauses, which bind almost one in five private-sector employees in Italy, curbing pay growth and mobility.\\n\\n## Resilient markets, weak output\\n\\nIn an Adnkronos interview, Garnero set Italy against resilient labour markets paired with weak GDP.\\n\\nLabour markets in OECD countries have shown in recent years, and continue to show, a certain solidity, in the face of negative GDP performance and various shocks, from tariffs to the war in the Middle East. We are at record levels of employment and participation, and record lows, in the positive sense, for unemployment. 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The rate remains 9.3 percentage points below the OECD average of 72.1%, leaving Italy among the lowest in the group, with the gap particularly marked among women and young people. The organisation also warns that employment growth has slowed significantly over the past year, unlike the sustained increase seen in other Southern European countries.\n\nUnemployment moved the other way, falling to 5% in May 2026, a record low in line with the OECD average of 4.9% and 1.5 percentage points below a year earlier. The decline runs against the broader trend: unemployment has risen in about two-thirds of OECD countries, and Italy belongs to a small Southern European group, alongside Spain, Portugal and Greece, where it has continued to fall.\n\n\n\n## Pay packets lose ground\n\nMore jobs have not restored purchasing power. Real wages grew 1.3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, mainly thanks to low inflation, but they remain 6.1% lower than in the first quarter of 2021, the widest gap among large OECD economies. The recent surge in energy prices, which the organisation links to the Middle East conflict, is pushing inflation up and real wages down again.\n\nAndrea Garnero, senior economist at the OECD's employment directorate, explained the mechanism to Il Sole 24 Ore.\n\nInflation in Italy is at levels similar to other countries; the point is that nominal wages here are lower, so as soon as the tide of inflation rises, wages end up underwater. Despite the improvement from contract renewals, real wages remain below 2021 levels. The gap, which was 7-8 points, has narrowed but is still the highest among OECD countries, and corresponds roughly to 20 days of unpaid work compared to 2021, at equal purchasing power.\n\nAssuming the Middle East conflict's repercussions stay relatively short-lived, the OECD projects Italian real wages will decline 0.9% in 2026 and rise only 0.2% in 2027, citing the limited number of contract renewals planned for 2027 and persistent labour-market slack. It estimates inflation at 3% in 2026 and 2.2% in 2027, with nominal wages growing about 2.2% and 2.4% respectively.\n\n\n\n## A divided labour market\n\nThe Italy factsheet describes wide territorial disparities.\n\nWhere you live determines job opportunities and living standards.\n\nUnemployment in the weakest quintile of Italian provinces is more than four times that of the strongest, against an OECD average of about two. The distance has narrowed by 10.4% relative to the national average since early 2010, but internal migration is not closing it: those leaving low-employment areas are on average younger, more educated and more often already employed. Garnero also points to non-compete clauses, which bind almost one in five private-sector employees in Italy, curbing pay growth and mobility.\n\n## Resilient markets, weak output\n\nIn an Adnkronos interview, Garnero set Italy against resilient labour markets paired with weak GDP.\n\nLabour markets in OECD countries have shown in recent years, and continue to show, a certain solidity, in the face of negative GDP performance and various shocks, from tariffs to the war in the Middle East. We are at record levels of employment and participation, and record lows, in the positive sense, for unemployment. 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two nights of US strikes on 170-plus targets drew Iranian retaliation against bases in four Arab states and cut Hormuz crossings to six freighters on Thursday.\",\n \"summary\": \"## From truce to renewed strikes\\n\\nPresident Donald Trump declared the interim agreement with Iran \\\"over\\\" on Wednesday and ordered fresh strikes, unwinding the June 17 memorandum of understanding meant to open a 60-day window for a final peace deal in a war that began with US-Israeli strikes in late February. The escalation started on Monday, when Iran attacked three merchant ships in Omani coastal waters, among them a Qatari LNG tanker and a Saudi oil tanker; Washington called the attacks a truce violation because the vessels followed a route not agreed with Tehran. The United States first reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil, then launched overnight strikes on more than 80 targets, according to Centcom: air defenses, command networks, coastal radars, anti-ship missile sites and over 60 small Revolutionary Guard boats. Trump said the Pentagon also struck Iran's main oil export terminal on Kharg Island and warned US forces could seize it.\\n\\nThe war will not start again. It will end soon.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Iran's retaliation\\n\\nTehran said eight of its soldiers were killed in the first US wave and responded with missiles and drones against what it called 85 US military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait, also claiming to have downed a US MQ-9 drone; a US official reported no American casualties and no significant damage. In the night to Thursday, Centcom reported around 90 further strikes meant to degrade Iran's ability to attack shipping. Iran's answer widened to US military sites in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Jordan; the Revolutionary Guards said ten ballistic missiles were fired at Jordan's Azraq air base, and Jordan reported eight intercepted projectiles, no deaths and no significant damage. Iran's Health Ministry said at least 14 people were killed and 78 wounded in US attacks over two days. Irna reported that a military facility near Bushehr, close to Iran's only operating nuclear power plant, was hit by what deputy governor Ehsan Jahanian called a \\\"US-Zionist enemy\\\" projectile; a US defense official told AFP that American forces had carried out no new attack in recent hours.\\n\\n## The strait seizes up\\n\\nAbout one fifth of global oil passed through the strait before the war. Only six freighters crossed by 16:30 CEST on Thursday, down from 21 on Wednesday and a two-week average of about 40 ships a day, itself far below the pre-war level of 125 to 140. Just two tankers, the US-sanctioned Iranian supertanker Berg 1 and the Marshall Islands-flagged chemical tanker Well Sail, crossed in the early morning. War-risk insurers advised owners to suspend transits, several ships switched off their AIS transponders, and shipbroker Clarksons judged a durable reopening more fragile. The Qatari LNG tanker Al Rekayyat, shelled on Tuesday evening, remained disabled off Oman after an engine-room fire was extinguished. Oil prices, up roughly 8% since Tuesday, eased on Thursday: Brent fell 0.5% to $77.53 a barrel and WTI to $73.15.\\n\\nTanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has essentially come to a standstill, which at the moment says more about risk perception than any statement from Washington or Tehran.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n## Leverage and politics\\n\\nTehran leans on Point 5 of the June declaration, under which it ensures safe passage and will hold talks with Oman on the strait's future administration; it wants to charge transit fees, which Washington and its Arab allies reject. Trump defended his handling of the war at the NATO summit in Ankara as an \\\"enormous military success\\\" that had decimated Iran's capabilities, and drew mockery for calling Iran the \\\"Islamic Republic of Japan\\\". A June 23 Reuters/Ipsos poll put his approval at 34%, the lowest of his second term, with midterm elections due in November. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who viewed the war as ended prematurely, sees Trump's stop of negotiations as a chance; Israel is preparing new attacks on Iran while still striking Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.\\n\\nTrump has put himself in a box. Whether through military or diplomatic means, he doesn't look likely to gain much from Iran.\",\n \"keyPoints\": [\n {\n \"title\": \"Trump declares June 17 truce 'over'\",\n \"description\": \"After Iranian attacks on three merchant ships from Monday, Trump declared the interim deal 'over' on Wednesday; Centcom said US forces struck more than 80 targets in the first overnight wave and around 90 in the second, including the Kharg Island oil terminal.\",\n \"priority\": \"high\"\n },\n {\n \"title\": \"Iran retaliates across four Arab states\",\n \"description\": \"Tehran said it hit 85 US installations in Bahrain and Kuwait, downed a US MQ-9 drone and fired ten ballistic missiles at Jordan's Azraq air base, eight of which Jordan intercepted; Iran's Health Ministry reported 14 dead and 78 wounded over two days.\",\n \"priority\": \"high\"\n },\n {\n \"title\": \"Hormuz shipping nearly stops\",\n \"description\": \"Only six freighters crossed the strait by 16:30 CEST on Thursday, versus 21 on Wednesday, a recent average of 40 per day and 125 to 140 before the war; war-risk insurers advised owners to suspend transits.\",\n \"priority\": \"high\"\n },\n {\n \"title\": \"Oil rises 8%, then eases\",\n \"description\": \"Crude gained roughly 8% from Tuesday as fighting resumed; on Thursday Brent fell 0.5% to $77.53 a barrel and WTI to $73.15, with just two tankers, the Berg 1 and the Well Sail, making the morning crossing.\",\n \"priority\": \"medium\"\n },\n {\n \"title\": \"Tehran demands Hormuz transit fees\",\n \"description\": \"Citing Point 5 of the June declaration, Iran insists cargo ships coordinate passage with its authorities, plans talks with Oman on administering the strait and wants to charge transit fees, which Washington and its Arab allies reject.\",\n \"priority\": \"medium\"\n },\n {\n \"title\": \"Trump at 34%, Netanyahu eyes new strikes\",\n \"description\": \"A June 23 Reuters/Ipsos poll put Trump's approval at 34%, the lowest of his second term before November's midterms; Benjamin Netanyahu, who saw the war as ended prematurely, views Trump's halt of talks as a chance as Israel prepares new attacks.\",\n \"priority\": \"low\"\n }\n ],\n \"charts\": [\n {\n \"id\": \"c1\",\n \"type\": \"timeline\",\n \"title\": \"Escalation around the Strait of Hormuz, July 6-9\",\n \"unit\": null,\n \"data\": [\n { \"date\": \"2026-07-06\", \"event\": \"Iran attacks three merchant ships off Oman, incl. 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The escalation started on Monday, when Iran attacked three merchant ships in Omani coastal waters, among them a Qatari LNG tanker and a Saudi oil tanker; Washington called the attacks a truce violation because the vessels followed a route not agreed with Tehran. The United States first reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil, then launched overnight strikes on more than 80 targets, according to Centcom: air defenses, command networks, coastal radars, anti-ship missile sites and over 60 small Revolutionary Guard boats. Trump said the Pentagon also struck Iran's main oil export terminal on Kharg Island and warned US forces could seize it.\n\nThe war will not start again. It will end soon.\n\n\n\n## Iran's retaliation\n\nTehran said eight of its soldiers were killed in the first US wave and responded with missiles and drones against what it called 85 US military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait, also claiming to have downed a US MQ-9 drone; a US official reported no American casualties and no significant damage. In the night to Thursday, Centcom reported around 90 further strikes meant to degrade Iran's ability to attack shipping. Iran's answer widened to US military sites in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Jordan; the Revolutionary Guards said ten ballistic missiles were fired at Jordan's Azraq air base, and Jordan reported eight intercepted projectiles, no deaths and no significant damage. Iran's Health Ministry said at least 14 people were killed and 78 wounded in US attacks over two days. Irna reported that a military facility near Bushehr, close to Iran's only operating nuclear power plant, was hit by what deputy governor Ehsan Jahanian called a \"US-Zionist enemy\" projectile; a US defense official told AFP that American forces had carried out no new attack in recent hours.\n\n## The strait seizes up\n\nAbout one fifth of global oil passed through the strait before the war. Only six freighters crossed by 16:30 CEST on Thursday, down from 21 on Wednesday and a two-week average of about 40 ships a day, itself far below the pre-war level of 125 to 140. Just two tankers, the US-sanctioned Iranian supertanker Berg 1 and the Marshall Islands-flagged chemical tanker Well Sail, crossed in the early morning. War-risk insurers advised owners to suspend transits, several ships switched off their AIS transponders, and shipbroker Clarksons judged a durable reopening more fragile. The Qatari LNG tanker Al Rekayyat, shelled on Tuesday evening, remained disabled off Oman after an engine-room fire was extinguished. Oil prices, up roughly 8% since Tuesday, eased on Thursday: Brent fell 0.5% to $77.53 a barrel and WTI to $73.15.\n\nTanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has essentially come to a standstill, which at the moment says more about risk perception than any statement from Washington or Tehran.\n\n\n\n\n\n## Leverage and politics\n\nTehran leans on Point 5 of the June declaration, under which it ensures safe passage and will hold talks with Oman on the strait's future administration; it wants to charge transit fees, which Washington and its Arab allies reject. Trump defended his handling of the war at the NATO summit in Ankara as an \"enormous military success\" that had decimated Iran's capabilities, and drew mockery for calling Iran the \"Islamic Republic of Japan\". A June 23 Reuters/Ipsos poll put his approval at 34%, the lowest of his second term, with midterm elections due in November. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who viewed the war as ended prematurely, sees Trump's stop of negotiations as a chance; Israel is preparing new attacks on Iran while still striking Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.\n\nTrump has put himself in a box. 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Rescue teams recovered the last of the bodies by mid-afternoon on Wednesday, according to the company's statement. Norgran's first count put 12 miners dead and eight injured, with the injured taken to hospital. None of the three reports gives a precise time for the collapse, and none identifies a cause. Wire Alpha and Agence Gamma both based their initial reports on Norgran's account of the accident at the mine.\\n\\n\\n\\n## The rising death toll\\n\\nNorgran's confirmed toll stood at 12 dead and eight injured when Wednesday's rescue operation ended. On Thursday morning, Velmi told reporters the toll had risen to 15, saying three of the injured miners had died in hospital overnight. The mine operator has not confirmed the higher figure, the Regional Courier noted, leaving the company's confirmed count at 12 against the governor's 15. Agence Gamma had already cautioned in its report that the toll could worsen, citing regional authorities who said several of the injured were in a serious condition. Families of the victims gathered at the mine site on Thursday as the governor's revised figure emerged, the Regional Courier reported. The reported toll therefore ranges from 12 to 15, depending on the source.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Safety review and criminal inquiry\\n\\nThe state mining inspectorate said the section of the tunnel that collapsed had passed a safety review in March, Wire Alpha reported. The collapse came about four months after that review cleared the very section of tunnel that failed on Wednesday. Velmi said an independent commission would now review the mine's safety certification, announcing the step at the same Thursday briefing where he gave the revised toll. The regional prosecutor's office has opened a criminal negligence inquiry into the collapse, a step confirmed by both the Regional Courier and Agence Gamma. No report names a suspect in the inquiry. The inspectorate has not publicly explained how a section of tunnel cleared in March failed in July.\\n\\n## Production suspended\\n\\nThe Kirovska site produces about 60,000 tonnes of copper concentrate a year, a figure given independently by both Wire Alpha and Agence Gamma. Norgran, the mine's operator and the source of the first public account of the accident, said operations at the site have been suspended pending an investigation. Agence Gamma likewise confirmed that production at the mine is stopped while the investigation proceeds. Norgran shares closed 4.2% lower following the collapse, Wire Alpha reported. The company has so far given no date for resuming output at the suspended mine. 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No report names a suspect in the inquiry. The inspectorate has not publicly explained how a section of tunnel cleared in March failed in July.\n\n## Production suspended\n\nThe Kirovska site produces about 60,000 tonnes of copper concentrate a year, a figure given independently by both Wire Alpha and Agence Gamma. Norgran, the mine's operator and the source of the first public account of the accident, said operations at the site have been suspended pending an investigation. Agence Gamma likewise confirmed that production at the mine is stopped while the investigation proceeds. Norgran shares closed 4.2% lower following the collapse, Wire Alpha reported. The company has so far given no date for resuming output at the suspended mine. 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Apollo said its proposal would be financed entirely through a combination of committed capital and debt financing.\\n\\n\\n\\n## A month of rejected approaches\\nApollo's entry follows multiple rounds of negotiation over the past month between easyJet and Castlelake, which had repeatedly raised its offer to keep the talks alive. easyJet rejected Castlelake's first four proposals; the third was dismissed as highly opportunistic, made in the context of a temporarily depressed easyJet share price, with the company pointing to the Middle East situation weighing on airlines. The board opened the door to dialogue on 25 June, granting Castlelake access to limited commercial information, and on 5 July announced an agreement in principle at £6.90. That sequence left room for a higher bidder, as Peter Roosenboom, professor of corporate finance, predicted in de Volkskrant this week.\\n\\nIf the bid really is too low, we may well see other bidders being shaken awake.\\n\\n\\n\\n## What Apollo intends to do with easyJet\\nApollo said it believes in easyJet's existing strategy of evolving and strengthening the low-cost carrier model, and named three levers: expanding and modernizing the fleet, raising revenue from ancillary services such as paid baggage, seat selection and loyalty programmes, and developing easyJet Holidays into a structurally differentiated source of revenue. The fund stressed it does not plan to break up the airline, countering the usual association of private equity with cost cuts and asset sales.\\n\\nIdentifying and retaining key figures within the easyJet group will be of the utmost importance.\\n\\nLike Castlelake, Apollo is a US firm and cannot take full control of easyJet under British and European rules requiring majority ownership and control to rest with regional citizens, so it needs a partner structure. easyJet had earlier pressed Castlelake for clarity on exactly this ownership question. The family of founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou remains the largest shareholder, with a 15.3% stake.\\n\\n## Context for the deal\\nMeasured by passenger numbers, easyJet is Europe's fifth-largest airline, behind Ryanair, Lufthansa Group, IAG and Air France-KLM, and carries more than 100 million passengers a year. In May it reported a widened first-half loss in its offset financial year, already citing the consequences of the Middle East conflict. 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The proposal is roughly 3.6% above the £6.90 per share, a £5.5 billion valuation, that Castlelake had agreed with easyJet only days earlier. The board said it was no longer minded to recommend Castlelake's approach and had concluded unanimously that Apollo's financial terms were at a level it would be prepared to recommend to shareholders, provided a firm offer arrives by 7 August. Castlelake has until 3 August to formalize its own bid.\n\nThe proposed cash offer delivers a superior outcome for easyJet shareholders by providing a higher cash value than Castlelake's latest proposal.\n\n## Shares jump in London\neasyJet shares rose 13.67% to £6.69 in the first minutes of London trading, according to ANSA, with La Vanguardia putting the gain at around 14% by mid-morning. Even after the jump, the stock remained below both rival offers, meaning traders are not yet pricing in a completed deal at £7.15. Apollo said its proposal would be financed entirely through a combination of committed capital and debt financing.\n\n\n\n## A month of rejected approaches\nApollo's entry follows multiple rounds of negotiation over the past month between easyJet and Castlelake, which had repeatedly raised its offer to keep the talks alive. easyJet rejected Castlelake's first four proposals; the third was dismissed as highly opportunistic, made in the context of a temporarily depressed easyJet share price, with the company pointing to the Middle East situation weighing on airlines. The board opened the door to dialogue on 25 June, granting Castlelake access to limited commercial information, and on 5 July announced an agreement in principle at £6.90. That sequence left room for a higher bidder, as Peter Roosenboom, professor of corporate finance, predicted in de Volkskrant this week.\n\nIf the bid really is too low, we may well see other bidders being shaken awake.\n\n\n\n## What Apollo intends to do with easyJet\nApollo said it believes in easyJet's existing strategy of evolving and strengthening the low-cost carrier model, and named three levers: expanding and modernizing the fleet, raising revenue from ancillary services such as paid baggage, seat selection and loyalty programmes, and developing easyJet Holidays into a structurally differentiated source of revenue. The fund stressed it does not plan to break up the airline, countering the usual association of private equity with cost cuts and asset sales.\n\nIdentifying and retaining key figures within the easyJet group will be of the utmost importance.\n\nLike Castlelake, Apollo is a US firm and cannot take full control of easyJet under British and European rules requiring majority ownership and control to rest with regional citizens, so it needs a partner structure. easyJet had earlier pressed Castlelake for clarity on exactly this ownership question. The family of founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou remains the largest shareholder, with a 15.3% stake.\n\n## Context for the deal\nMeasured by passenger numbers, easyJet is Europe's fifth-largest airline, behind Ryanair, Lufthansa Group, IAG and Air France-KLM, and carries more than 100 million passengers a year. In May it reported a widened first-half loss in its offset financial year, already citing the consequences of the Middle East conflict. 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The shares, equivalent to 18 million ordinary shares, were priced at a 2.7% premium to the stock's average over the previous three trading days, the company said in a filing to the Korea stock exchange. The sale is the largest in the US by a foreign company, passing Alibaba's $25bn float in 2014, and the second-largest globally after SpaceX's $85.7bn Nasdaq listing in June. Proceeds will finance new factories and equipment as the chipmaker races to meet AI demand.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Demand seven times the shares on offer\\n\\nOrders topped seven times the shares on offer, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg, even as chip stocks have lost momentum in recent weeks on concerns about slower AI spending. SK Hynix's Seoul shares had fallen roughly a quarter over the past fortnight, and the stock has swung more than 5% in either direction on over 50 occasions this year. 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Late last month, SK Hynix and Samsung signed on to a $1tn AI investment initiative announced by President Lee Jae Myung, pledging to invest $518bn with suppliers to build two chipmaking facilities. Yoo Hoi-jun, an electrical engineering professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, put the company's role plainly.\\n\\nAs long as there is demand for graphic processors and AI data centers, SK Hynix is indispensable.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Closing the Micron valuation gap\\n\\nThe listing is also meant to narrow a valuation gap with US rival Micron, which holds less share in key memory products yet trades at a 12-month forward price-to-earnings ratio of 6.66 times against SK Hynix's 5.5. On forecast 2028 earnings, the year analysts expect the boom's revenue to peak, Micron trades at six times versus four for both SK Hynix and Samsung, according to Visible Alpha data cited by the Financial Times. The deal is less than 3% of SK Hynix's $1tn market value, the FT notes, so the gap may persist: the two Korean groups make up just over half of South Korea's market capitalisation. Daniel Newman, CEO of tech research firm Futurum Group, framed the rivalry with Micron.\\n\\nSK Hynix leads on share and Nvidia proximity, Micron competes on power efficiency, US positioning, and momentum from third place.\\n\\nThe debut is already drawing leveraged products: ProShares, Leverage Shares and Rex Shares are among issuers seeking approval for ETFs that would amplify the ADRs' daily moves, importing to Wall Street the bets that have amplified the stock's volatility in Seoul. 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The company said late that evening that the executive board had presented a package of 12 initiatives and its Zielbild 2030 target picture: the model range is to shrink gradually by up to 50% and equipment options by up to 75%. Group capacity, spanning Audi, Skoda, Seat and Porsche, is to fall over time from roughly 10 million to about 9 million vehicles a year. Blume cast the package as renewal under the company's own power.\\n\\nWith our future plan, we are entering the next phase of the transformation under our own power.\\n\\nWhat the statement did not contain was a word on job cuts or plant closures, the issues that had drawn workers into the streets. Industry expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer said no decisions were taken, the goals communicated were largely already known, and on plants and employment there was not a word.\\n\\n\\n\\n## The closures reported but not decided\\n\\nAccording to Der Spiegel, four German plants face closure: Zwickau and Emden within five years, Hannover in 2032 and the Audi plant in Neckarsulm in 2034. Around 40,000 employees work at the four sites, ANSA reports.\\n\\n\\n\\nOn jobs, the figures diverge. Blume has spoken of up to 50,000 departures by 2030, while Manager Magazin reports that as many as 100,000 positions worldwide could be cut, twice the number previously planned. Senior executives are weighing the deeper reduction to achieve 11 billion euros in cost savings by 2030, according to The Independent. Thursday's communique confirmed none of it.\\n\\n\\n\\n## Labor and political resistance\\n\\nWorks council chief Daniela Cavallo demanded that Blume address the workforce on Friday and comment unambiguously on the rumors.\\n\\nEnough! The barrel has overflowed. The board's treatment of the workforce cannot be surpassed in disrespect.\\n\\nAt least 400 workers demonstrated at the Wolfsburg headquarters, with protests at other sites; the IG Metall union vowed fierce resistance to job cuts and, per Il Messaggero, warned of a large-scale social conflict. Unions will accept only voluntary departures, as in the 2024 restructuring agreement, and reject closures categorically. Lower Saxony's Minister-President Olaf Lies, a Social Democrat on the supervisory board, called the meeting very intensive but conceded that no timetable exists. His state holds 11.8% of Volkswagen's capital and 20% of the voting rights.\\n\\nIn fact, the question of when decisions will be made is still unclear.\\n\\nLies rejects closures outright, at least for his own state; Emden mayor Tim Kruithoff has publicly reminded him of that stance. Focus reports that Blume's fallback is to seek shareholder approval past the supervisory board: an extraordinary general meeting, where capital outweighs labor and the state, could be convened if resistance grows.\\n\\n## The strain behind the overhaul\\n\\nGroup deliveries fell 4% to 2.05 million vehicles in the first quarter, dragged by weak business in China and the United States; VW said its market share held broadly stable in a shrunken market, with gains in Germany and Europe. The group's profit margin halved between 2021 and 2025, NOS reports. Porsche delivered 122,306 vehicles in the first half of 2026, 16% fewer than a year earlier and its weakest first half since 2020. 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The company said late that evening that the executive board had presented a package of 12 initiatives and its Zielbild 2030 target picture: the model range is to shrink gradually by up to 50% and equipment options by up to 75%. Group capacity, spanning Audi, Skoda, Seat and Porsche, is to fall over time from roughly 10 million to about 9 million vehicles a year. Blume cast the package as renewal under the company's own power.\n\nWith our future plan, we are entering the next phase of the transformation under our own power.\n\nWhat the statement did not contain was a word on job cuts or plant closures, the issues that had drawn workers into the streets. Industry expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer said no decisions were taken, the goals communicated were largely already known, and on plants and employment there was not a word.\n\n\n\n## The closures reported but not decided\n\nAccording to Der Spiegel, four German plants face closure: Zwickau and Emden within five years, Hannover in 2032 and the Audi plant in Neckarsulm in 2034. Around 40,000 employees work at the four sites, ANSA reports.\n\n\n\nOn jobs, the figures diverge. Blume has spoken of up to 50,000 departures by 2030, while Manager Magazin reports that as many as 100,000 positions worldwide could be cut, twice the number previously planned. Senior executives are weighing the deeper reduction to achieve 11 billion euros in cost savings by 2030, according to The Independent. Thursday's communique confirmed none of it.\n\n\n\n## Labor and political resistance\n\nWorks council chief Daniela Cavallo demanded that Blume address the workforce on Friday and comment unambiguously on the rumors.\n\nEnough! The barrel has overflowed. The board's treatment of the workforce cannot be surpassed in disrespect.\n\nAt least 400 workers demonstrated at the Wolfsburg headquarters, with protests at other sites; the IG Metall union vowed fierce resistance to job cuts and, per Il Messaggero, warned of a large-scale social conflict. Unions will accept only voluntary departures, as in the 2024 restructuring agreement, and reject closures categorically. Lower Saxony's Minister-President Olaf Lies, a Social Democrat on the supervisory board, called the meeting very intensive but conceded that no timetable exists. His state holds 11.8% of Volkswagen's capital and 20% of the voting rights.\n\nIn fact, the question of when decisions will be made is still unclear.\n\nLies rejects closures outright, at least for his own state; Emden mayor Tim Kruithoff has publicly reminded him of that stance. Focus reports that Blume's fallback is to seek shareholder approval past the supervisory board: an extraordinary general meeting, where capital outweighs labor and the state, could be convened if resistance grows.\n\n## The strain behind the overhaul\n\nGroup deliveries fell 4% to 2.05 million vehicles in the first quarter, dragged by weak business in China and the United States; VW said its market share held broadly stable in a shrunken market, with gains in Germany and Europe. The group's profit margin halved between 2021 and 2025, NOS reports. Porsche delivered 122,306 vehicles in the first half of 2026, 16% fewer than a year earlier and its weakest first half since 2020. 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