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  • 01/02/2025
MEDI1TV Afrique : JT Economie - 31/01/2025

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00:00Thank you for joining us on Medihan and welcome to this new edition of your Economy newspaper.
00:14In Morocco, 17.3 billion dirhams is the total amount of the 20 projects approved by the
00:207th National Investment Commission, met under the presidency of the head of government.
00:26These projects will generate nearly 27,000 jobs, according to the department of the government.
00:31In detail, 15 convention projects and two avenues to conventions have been approved
00:36as part of the main device set up by the new investment charter.
00:42These 17 projects, which amount to a total of nearly 4.3 billion dirhams, concern 14
00:49provinces and prefectures in this region of the kingdom, including those of Bnimlel, Gilmim and Tintan.
00:56These projects affect 7 sectors of activity, including tourism, renewable energies,
01:01agri-food, automobiles and packaging industry.
01:06In Morocco, the number of companies created always reaches 86,493 units by the end of November,
01:14according to the Moroccan Office for Industrial and Commercial Property.
01:18By sector, the companies operating in commerce account for 34.99%, followed by buildings
01:26and public works and real estate activities 19.33%, winter services 18.29% and transport 8.03%.
01:37According to the regional distribution, Casablanca Stats is the largest, with 27,070 companies
01:45created by the end of November, in front of Angers-Titouan Al-Husayma with 12,627 and Rabat-Salekin-Litra with 10,007 companies.
01:56In national economic news, also the sales of cement, the main barometer of construction activity,
02:04increased by 9.4% in the end of 2024, after a near-stagnation the previous year,
02:12according to the direction of studies and financial forecasts.
02:15This performance is explained by the reinforcement of the sales of cement from 17.6% in the second half of 2024,
02:24carried by exceptional increases of 16.5% and 18.9% recorded, respectively during the last two quarters of the previous year.
02:35According to the same source, this progression is due to the increase in loans to real estate 1.7%
02:42and loans to real estate 7.2% after respective increases of 2.0% and 0.5% the previous year.
02:56And then internationally, the European Central Bank announced a new drop in interest rates.
03:03The deposit rate, which refers to a decline of 0.25% to 2.75%, as expected by most economists.
03:14This also makes it the fifth drop in money rentals since June and the fourth in a row,
03:21with this drop the peaks of interest rates known in 2023 decided at the time to counter high inflation
03:28due to the influx of energy prices and the post-Covid-19 recovery now belongs to the past.
03:38We stay in the euro zone, precisely the data published by the European Office of Eurostat Statistics
03:44show that growth has finally settled last year.
03:49Throughout the year, gross domestic product in the euro zone increased by 0.7% compared to 2023,
03:56after 0.4% the previous year, according to the first estimates of Eurostat,
04:02which shows that the euro zone has undergone a sharp slowdown at the end of the year,
04:06after quarterly growth rates of 0.3% and 0.2% over the first two quarters.
04:12For the whole of the European Union, gross domestic product recorded a low growth of 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2024
04:22and a growth of 0.8% over the whole of last year.
04:31We continue our newspaper in the United States, gross domestic product has progressed by 2.8% the previous year,
04:39according to the Department of Commerce.
04:41This slowdown is explained in particular by a decline in investments over the last three months of the year.
04:47At a manual rate, GDP growth rose to 2.3% in the last quarter.
04:53Over a year, growth is in line with the forecasts of the International Monetary Fund,
04:59which had anticipated 2.8% during the latest update of its annual report in mid-January,
05:05with a strong increase in revision compared to what the institution had planned in October.
05:11The publication of gross domestic product also intervenes in the aftermath of the decision of the Federal Reserve
05:18to leave its unchanged rates in a range between 4.25% and 4.50%.
05:26Estimating precisely that the good health of the American economy allowed it to continue to focus on inflation.
05:34This is the end of our edition today.
05:36Good programming on our antenna.