Logan Sargent doesn’t think he owes his Formula 1 seat to his nationality. The American will make his Williams debut next season and will do so in time for the game boom is in America. The 22-year-old doubts whether that influenced his team’s selection. “Ultimately I feel like I’ve worked as hard as anybody to […]
Why are ice storms so severe in the US and Canada?
A winter storm brought wind chills and whiteout conditions to over 30 degrees below zero in eastern Iowa.Image by AP With wind chill temperatures as low as -45 degrees Celsius, North America shivers towards Christmas. Many Americans filmed themselves throwing boiling water into the air on Friday. Within a second of leaving the pan, the […]
Stock market day with quarterly results from major US banks
Photo: ANP Stock market trading on Friday will mostly be dominated by quarterly figures from major US banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Wells Fargo. It opens the earnings season on Wall Street. Investors’ focus will be on investment banking performance, among others. There have been very few IPOs […]
Rutte and Hoekstra met with Biden on Tuesday
International•13 Jan ’23 at 15:16Author of the book: Joel Balde Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra will travel to Washington next Tuesday to meet US President Joe Biden. It was their first time meeting Biden at the White House. ‘There’s a lot to talk about,’ says Paul Verhagen of The Hague Center […]
“We Grow the Only Organic Greenhouse Strawberries in North America”
In the fall of 2014, Nature Fresh Farms opened its first greenhouse outside of Canada, in the US state of Ohio. Various varieties of tomatoes are grown in the 18 hectare greenhouse. Now, eight years later, another 18 hectares are being expanded, which will be used exclusively for strawberry cultivation. “We began researching and testing […]
Prices fall in the United States for the first time since the start of the corona epidemic economy
Prices of goods and services in the US fell slightly in December. On average, Americans lost 0.1 percent less than a month ago. This is the first time since May 2020, when the corona crisis broke out, that prices have fallen. Compared to the previous year, there was an increase in December (6.5 percent). Among […]
Deadly Kickboxer Robbie Hackman Goes to America: ‘Last Hope’
He’s counting the hours: Robbie Hackman, an ailing kickboxer from Nuenen, will board a plane to America on Friday afternoon. For an initial conversation with doctors who could treat his brain tumor. “I have to decide about doing business with them.” A month ago, Hackman launched a fund-raising campaign for expensive treatment in the US. […]
US inflation hits lowest level in more than a year: 6.5%
Prices of goods and services in the U.S. fell by an average of one percent in December compared with November. But it still increased by 6.5 percent on annual basis which reported US Department of Labor Thursday. In November 2022, annual inflation in the US was still 7.1 percent. Inflation eased slightly in December due […]
The Leeuwarden Water Conservation Institute has struck a blow in America
Hydroloop was already active in the US, but mainly on smaller projects. The partnership with Bowersox gives it the opportunity to go there nationwide. “PowerSox builds entire residential areas. They’ve indicated that this will be their new standard,” says Sabin Steuer, co-founder of HydroLoop. “So all the houses they’re going to build come with this […]
Winter storms in the US cut Bitcoin production from Argo Blockchain – BLOX
Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Argo Blockchain saw its production drop significantly in December due to winter storms in Texas. On Wednesday, January 11, the miner released production figures for the first time since selling its largest mining facility, Helios, to Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital. Argo Blockchain generated 147 Bitcoin in December 2022, a solid drop […]