Tuesday probably again train strike NS

Good morning!

Welcome to a new economy blog this week, in which the escalating conflict in the Middle East will keep the minds busy. After Israeli attacks on Iran last Thursday, the armed forces of both countries have attacked each other in recent days, resulting in tens of victims. In the coming days it will become clear how much the conflict will escalate.

In your own country there was news from the strike front last weekend: the Strive CAO negotiations between the Dutch Railways and the railway unions Are not over yet. VVMC and FNV Spoor have announced a new strike for tomorrow. There is still a conversation with the Dutch Railways today, but unions have little fiducia in it. If that does not yield anything, the work will be laid in the regions of East and Northwest tomorrow. Our transport editor Jan Benjamin analyzed the conflict here About employment conditions.

Staff news then. It FD Message about a change of the guard at Ticket wapthe company that trades second -hand tickets. Founder Hans Ober takes a step back and makes way for Jan van Casteren, who as a new top man has to grow the company again. Ticketswap suffered badly from the coronation time when festivals and concerts were canceled. Last year it again achieved a modest profit for the first time since the Pandemie.

A look at the new trade week then. There were no signs of panic at the opening of the stock markets in Asia, after the financial markets had already been subdued to the Israeli-Iranian weapon clattering last week. The tensions were visible in the oil price. The price of a barrel of American oil cost 1.1 percent more with almost $ 74. A barrel of Brent oil, oil from the Middle East and the North Sea, among others, became 0.9 percent more expensive at almost $ 75.

US and China maintain mutual export restrictions Despite a ‘window work deal’ last week, Reuters news agency managed to draw up last weekend based on anonymous sources. Editor Daan van Lent wrote there last week this piece aboutin which he came to a similar conclusion as the sources of Reuters. Through Chinese export restrictions of rare earth metals, the country can keep other countries in a ‘stranglehold’ and destabilizing their production chains.

Furthermore, today is the day that the G7 In Alberta, Canadian. Seven important industrial countries (and the European Union) meet at the three-day top to talk about the situation in the Middle East, among other things. Steven Everts, director of the EU Institute of Security Studies, looked ahead in this piece.

Even more news for the agenda this week: Triodos Will go to the fair in Amsterdam next Wednesday and there are several interest rate decisions of central banks Planned, Wednesday from the Bank of England and the American Federal Reserve.