Month: October 2021

Since the announcement of the decision to halt it, a huge amount of community awareness has been raised with over 4,000 signatures to an online petition that ICCIAUS has been happy to support.Kudos to Consolato Adelaide, Comites South Australia, SA local MPs and community representatives that organised and coordinated the response with a terrific result! Our CEO, […]

The Byron Bay Train is the first train in the world to be powered by a 4.6 billion-year-old energy source. Solar power moves the locomotive along, reducing all air pollution to zero! Read more here: https://bit.ly/3vIKOMb

An ECB policy rate hike by the end of 2022, as the markets are starting to price in, does not seem compatible with the expected trend of inflation next year and with the new monetary policystrategy approach. Click the link below for the complete weekly economic report [15 October 2021] powered by Intesa Sanpaolohttps://lnkd.in/gUytP4Qu

After a long wait due to delays because of COVID-19 the Dubai Expo 2020 has finally kicked off at the begging of this month with the theme Connecting Minds And Creating The Future. At the centre of the expo is the Italian Pavilion which operates under the theme of “Beauty connects people” and was brought to life by some of […]

NSW’s Coffs harbour bypass tender shortlist announced and Webuild’s JV, together with CPB, is in.The joint venture has been selected to take part in the tender process of a project that is going to change the region, deliverig safer and quicker journeys for the thousands of locals, tourists and freight operators who use this route daily.“Not only will locals get work but […]

Euro area – Inflation forecasts revised up. Inflation in the euro area accelerated rapidly over the past few months, to 3.4% y/y in September. While we stick to our view that the rise of inflation will prove transitory, we now fear that it will not be short-lived. Based on our forecasts, the headline index should average 2.3% in […]

Italy – The Government approved the much awaited Update to the Economic and Financial Document (NADEF), which on the one hand confirmed the net improvement of the public finance framework (2021 deficit revised to 9.4% from 11.8%, debt now seen to decrease this year to 153.5%), on the other hand it highlights that, also thanks to […]

👏👏👏The Italian Giorgio Parisi, 73, won the Nobel Prize for physics, with the Japanese Syukuro Manabe and the German Klaus Hasselmann. The prize was awarded “for innovative contributions to the understanding of complex physical system”.

In a world first, Australian fashion retailer THE ICONIC, through a partnership with tech platform AirRobe, will on Wednesday begin offering resale as an optional service at the point of sale. Resale is a booming category: according to second hand retailer thredUP, the market is predicted to double over the next five years to a value of $US77 billion ($106 billion). “We want to make buying something […]