Financial Mirror (Cyprus) - 2023-11-04

• Nicosia free bus ride shunts 400 cars off roads
• Police reform locked away
• Hellenic Bank gets double notch rating upgrade from Fitch
• Banks extend foreclosur­e freeze
• Middle East conflict could impact regional cruises
• Cyprus hopes to send aid direct to Gaza by sea
• Nicosia stands firm in Chevron standoff
• “Women’s economics” goes mainstream
• Six individual­s and companies on new US sanctions list
• Finding a way into Gaza
• 2.7% Cypriots in severe material deprivatio­n
• Police under pressure after gangland murders
• Over €16 bln investment­s in energy this decade
• Employment in high-tech close to EU average
• GDP growth slows in 2023, up in 2024, says UCy outlook
• EU disposable income improves
• COVID19: Cases drop, low turnout for jabs
• Israel risks a pyrrhic victory over Hamas
• After the terrorist attack on October 7, Israel could no longer tolerate Hamas’ control over the Gaza Strip, but the cost of toppling Hamas is so high that victory could end up being a Pyrrhic one.
• The US and Iran’s not-quite-escalation
• Theories on the Gaza war
• Dubai-Cyprus property synergies
• The most attractive cities to start a new job
• Drawing a line under common expenses
• Airbnb bookings already past pre-pandemic high in 2023
• Q3 property sales documents hit €1 bln
• Bitcoin rally flips Tesla’s market cap
• “Expect market rally by end-2023” says deVere CEO
• No news is good news
• Consequenc­es of the Israel-Hamas war
• The stunning resilience of emerging markets
• When more financial regulation is not better
• Sunak AI safety summit to fail without regulation
• Li Keqiang’s death heaps pressure on Beijing to reform
• How China can save the world – and itself
• Jobs report favours Fed, PMIs indicate slowing services
• BoE in wait-and-see mode, wage growth key to rate outlook

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