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The two releases point in different directions and both are distorted: output by a construction surge, orders by one-off transport and defence contracts. Read together they show building and machinery makers busy…
Wienerberger is one of the earliest reporters among European building-materials groups, so its update is read as a marker for brick, roofing and pipe demand ahead of results from peers. Two things in it travel: new…
The price is about 21 times the units' 2025 EBITDA, a high multiple for a paints business, and AkzoNobel's shares rose 2.3% on the news; Nippon Paint closed 3.45% higher in Tokyo. For AkzoNobel it turns a small…
The certificate price is what importers of steel, aluminium, cement, fertiliser and other covered goods owe per tonne of embedded emissions, so it sets the cost gap between imported and EU-made material. European…
The forecast describes the home market of ArcelorMittal, Thyssenkrupp, Salzgitter, Voestalpine, SSAB and Outokumpu, whose volumes depend on European construction, machinery and car production. Near-flat demand at a…
Higher gas prices raise power prices and input costs for energy-intensive producers in chemicals (BASF, Covestro), fertilisers (Yara), steel and glass, and squeeze utilities and energy retailers that cannot pass costs…
Wholesale power is revenue for generators such as EDF's listed peers, Iberdrola, Enel, RWE and Engie, with the split depending on what each runs: nuclear output curbed by river temperatures cannot capture high prices…
Storage levels going into winter shape European gas and power prices. Gas-fired generators and energy retailers buy the fuel; chemicals, fertiliser, glass and steel producers use it as feedstock and process heat, so it…
Carbon allowances are a direct cost line for European steelmakers, cement and chemicals producers, refiners and fossil-fuel power generators, so the pace of the cap and the amount of free allocation feed straight into…
The federal budget is a direct order source for listed defence contractors and for builders, rail suppliers and construction-materials makers that work on German roads, bridges and track. The borrowing side matters to…
A smaller duty-free quota and a 50% out-of-quota tariff shield EU steelmakers such as ArcelorMittal, Thyssenkrupp, Salzgitter, SSAB and Voestalpine from cheaper imports, supporting their selling prices and plant…