US President Trump Tweets: China officially echoed President Donald Trump’s optimism over bilateral trade talks. Chinese officials have begun preparing to restart imports of U.S. Soybeans & Liquified Natural Gas, the first sign confirming the claims of President Donald Trump and the White House that.China had agreed to start “immediately” buying U.S. products
Generali - In 2019, our commitment to maintaining a strong financial position is supported by a highly flexible and disciplined capital program, ample liquidity, and effective and efficient operations. In accordance with Canadian Natural's free cash flow allocation policy, the Company will target to allocate its free cash flow equally between share purchases and strengthening the balance sheet. Our financial strength gives us the flexibility to deliver on our plan and continue to drive long-term shareholder value creation through commodity price cycles. The flexibility of our 2019 budget is a very good example of how the Company can be nimble in response to a volatile commodity market."
Worldwide spending on robotics systems and drones to total US$115.7 billion in 2019, says IDC
Worldwide spending on robotics systems and drones will total US$115.7 billion in 2019, an increase of 17.6% over 2018, according to IDC. By 2022, this spending will reach US$210.3 billion with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.2%.
Robotics systems will be the larger of the two categories throughout the five-year forecast period with worldwide robotics spending forecast to be US$103.4 billion in 2019. Investments in drones will total US$12.3 billion in 2019 but are forecast to grow at a faster rate (30.6% CAGR) than robotics systems (18.9% CAGR).
Robotics spending in 2019 will be dominated by hardware purchases, with nearly two thirds of all spending going toward robotic systems, after-market robotics hardware, and system hardware. Purchases of industrial robots and service robots will deliver nearly 30% of the category total in 2019. Robotics-related software spending will largely go toward purchases of command and control applications and robotics-specific applications. Services spending will be spread across several segments, including systems integration, application management, and hardware deployment and support. Software spending is forecast to grow at a slightly faster rate (21.7% CAGR) than services or hardware spending (19% CAGR and 18.2% CAGR, respectively).
Discrete manufacturing will be responsible for nearly half of all robotics systems spending worldwide in 2019, generating US$50.2 billion in revenues. The next largest industries for robotics systems will be process manufacturing, resource industries, healthcare, and consumers. The industries that will see the fastest growth in robotics spending over the 2017-2022 forecast are wholesale (31.4% CAGR), retail (29.6% CAGR), and construction (28.1% CAGR). By 2022, IDC expects retail will overtake consumer spending on robotics systems.
"Industrial robotics continues to top the technology investment priorities of manufacturing organizations across all major markets surveyed by IDC in 2018," said Jing Bing Zhang, research director, Worldwide Robotics. "While the looming trade war between the US and China is likely to dampen the market growth slightly in the near term, we expect the growth trend to pick up from 2020 onward."
"The worldwide market for commercial service robotics will continue to grow at a rate of 20% per year for the coming five years," said John Santagate, research director for Commercial Service Robotics at IDC. "This growth is due to continued innovation in ease of use as well as the drive for flexible automation across industries. We expect to see growth driven by increased adoption of autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robots being deployed as a means to deliver improvements in capacity, productivity, and efficiency."
Spending on drones will also be dominated by hardware purchases with roughly 90% of the category total going toward drones and after-market drone hardware. Consumer drones will account for roughly 40% of the category total in 2019 with service drones delivering another 18%. Similar to robotics systems, drone software spending will primarily go to command and control applications and drone-specific applications. Services spending will be led by education and training and will see the fastest growth (35.9% CAGR) over the five-year forecast, followed by software (33.9% CAGR) and hardware (30.1% CAGR).
Consumer spending on drones will total US$5.1 billion in 2019, accounting for a little over 40% of the worldwide total. Industry spending on drones in 2019 will be led by utilities (US$1.4 billion), construction (US$1.05 billion) and discrete manufacturing (US$913 million). The industries that will experience the fastest growth in drone spending over the five-year forecast period will be federal/central government (56% CAGR), education (51% CAGR), and retail (42.01% CAGR). By 2022, IDC expects the resource industry to move ahead of both construction and discrete manufacturing to become the second largest industry for drone spending.
German Auto Industry Assoc VDIK: Expects 2018 Global car market to reach 85M new vehicles
- Expects 2018 number of new vehicles in Europe to reach 15.8M cars, similar number in 2019.
- Expects number of new vehicles in Germany to reach 3.4M in 2018, a decline of 1% in 2019.
10:41 *(ES) SPAIN DEBT AGENCY (TESORO) SELLS TOTAL €2.923B VS. €2.5-3.5B INDICATED RANGE IN 2021, 2023 AND 2028 BONDS
- Sells €553M in 0.05% Oct 2021 SPGB; Avg yield: 0.021% v 0.126% prior, Bid-to-cover: 3.65x v 1.77x prior
- Sells €1.27B in 0.35% July 2023 SPGB; Avg yield: 0.412% v 0.613% prior; Bid-to-cover: 1.65x v 1.78x prior
- Sells €1.1B in 1.40% July 2028 SPGB; Avg yield: 1.456% v 1.607% prior, Bid-to-cover: 1.93x v 1.57x prior
(B92.net) Daily: CIA sending ship full of arms to Kosovo army - http://bit.ly/2PjPX6D
A ship with a container full of the latest weaponry for the needs of (a future) Kosovo army is on its way across the Atlantic to the port of Durres in Alabania.
Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti writes this on Wednesday.
According to the newspaper, the dangerous cargo will be from there taken to Kosovo Security Forces bases. The daily further cites the data received by the Serbian security services, to report that "this conspirative arrangement is part of Pristina's scenario to take control of the northern (Serb) part of the province."
In addition, Vecernje Novosti reports, Serbian operatives have obtained information that the Kosovo secret service has distributed automatic rifles to some of the former and current associates in the southern part of (ethnically divided) Kosovska Mitrovica, as well as to other persons from "state institutions" who are trained to use them.
"This hellish game that is behind the curtains lead by America, fits into the plans of the Pristina authorities who intend to on December 14, in violation of all agreements, establish 'the Kosovo Army'," the paper said.
Vecernje Novosti also claims that the idea to impose additional (100 percent higher) taxes on goods from central Serbia came from Washington. "They, via Thaci and his minister Endri Shala, suggested to the Kosovo government the introduction of the tax, to spur Haradinaj into making even more radical measures," an unnamed source told the Belgrade daily.
As the source explained, this was meant to provoke Belgrade's reaction and lead to a limited conflict in the north of Kosovo.
"Because of this, Pristina is demanding that KFOR strengthens its the presence in the north and hermetically closes the 'border' towards central Serbia, supposedly in order to prevent the smuggling of goods," the unnamed source said.
Vecernje Novosti added that Pristina intends to execute a complete blockade of northern Kosovo and Metohija in the event of a possible deterioration of the security situation due to the Serbs' resistance, and to close the administrative crossings Brnjak and Jarinje with the help of KFOR.
In addition, the paper also stresses that KFOR, in case Belgrade, as a countermeasure, stops the water supply from Gazivode, would take control of this strategically important lake on its behalf.
"That would achieve the goal - establishing control over the entire territory of Kosovo and Metohija," Vecernje Novosti concluded.
--> If you want to have a better understanding : http://www.attali.com/en/livre/tous-ruines-dans-dix-ans-sortie-le-19-mai/