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19m ago 12.39 CEST Oil prices have climbed today, but Brent crude remains below $80 a barrel. Brent, the global benchmark, rose 4.5% in early London trading and is now up 2.9% at $78.23 a barrel, a gain of $2.2. Analysts at Goldman Sachs said: double quotation mark Recent attacks highlight how uncertain Gulf exports remain and that a serious re-escalation could re-intensify the short run upside risk to oil prices. The FTSE 100 index has turned negative, trading 25 points lower at 10,472, a 0.2% drop. Other European markets are just about in positive territory, while rising tensions in the Gulf are weighing on financial markets, ahead of the earnings season. Spot gold slid 1.3% to $4,066 an ounce. Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior analyst at the bank Swissquote, said this morning: double quotation mark Of course, elevated stock market volatility is a boon for banks’ trading desks, and we will see that reflected in a few days when the major US banks begin reporting second-quarter earnings. They are expected to deliver strong results thanks to higher market volatility, the SpaceX IPO and the higher-for-longer interest-rate environment. Consumer health remains a concern, especially as geopolitical tensions have re-escalated over the past week, but trading revenues and net interest income are expected to more than offset weakness on the consumer side. Besides the banks, ASML and TSMC will also report earnings this week and will likely post strong results, supported by AI-related spending and robust semiconductor demand. The real question is how the market will react. Remember, last week Samsung lost almost 10% after reporting 1’900% profit growth for the previous quarter and has continued to fall since then. Therefore, investors’ reaction to technology earnings may prove more important than the figures themselves. These stocks are still priced for perfection, yet several inconvenient truths are beginning to blur the picture. Share 1h ago 11.42 CEST ‘A new consumer’: how weight-loss drugs are shaking up clothes shopping I’m now at a point where I’m going to buy even more clothes,” says Hayley Grice, 50, from Shropshire, who has dropped seven sizes after starting on the GLP-1 weight loss jab Mounjaro two years ago. “I’m very happy with my physique right now.” Grice, the financial director of a business she set up with her husband, tried gastric bypass surgery in 2009, but put most of the weight back on, and had been between UK dress sizes 26 and 28 (US sizes 22 and 24) all her adult life. “When you are so morbidly obese, you dress in what you can, what will fit,” she says. “You can’t really choose the latest fashion or whatever your style is.” Now a UK size 12, she shops in standard stores rather than from an online plus-size retailer. “I would have shied away from colour, I would have shied away from anything that drew attention to me,” Grice adds. “And now I don’t care, if I like it I’ll wear it.” ‘A new consumer’: how weight-loss drugs are shaking up clothes shopping Read more The widespread take-up of weight loss drugs such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro is not only shaking up food habits, but spending across the board – and on wardrobes in particular. In the US, where one in five adults (21%) have tried GLP-1 drugs, spending on grocery, alcohol and apparel has shifted noticeably. Britain appears to be on a similar trajectory, where 5% of adults, or nearly 3 million people, are now on the drugs while 9% have taken one at some point, says new research from the consultancy PwC. It expects this number to rise to 13% by the end of next year – about 7 million people. “A single class of medication is already influencing how millions of people in Britain eat, drink, exercise and shop,” says PwC. “GLP-1s are doing far more than reducing appetite. They are creating a new consumer.” Share 1h ago 11.38 CEST First the £10 pint, now the £6.50 flat white: coffee industry faces inflationary pressures Drinkers across the UK were shocked when a pint in some London bars hit £10, and now a cup of coffee is facing a similar inflationary rate. Some baristas are now charging £6.50 for a flat white. Higher energy bills, inflated by the war in the Middle East, as well as government policies which have increased tax and wages, are filtering through into coffee prices, experts said. The price is also being raised by volatile weather in coffee growing regions, with a “super El Niño”, a weather phenomenon which causes extreme rainfall and drought, forecast for the end of the year. There was heavy rain in Brazil throughout June already, which will dampen harvests and cause prices to rise. In the week ending 28 June, rainfall was nearly 2,000% higher than the historical norm. Waterlogged fields precluded machinery from entering, and the rain severely worsened bean quality, delaying harvests to 52%. View image in fullscreen Flat White Coffee in the Depot bakery, Sheffield. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer In Vietnam, the largest producer of robusta beans, farmers are fighting early drought, and fertiliser and fuel prices in the country have jumped by 30% year-on-year, and labour costs by 33%. The Italian coffee company Lavazza warned that the sector faced “exceptional volatility”, with arabica bean prices increasing by 230% since 2021 and robusta up 325% over the same period. First the £10 pint, now the £6.50 flat white: coffee industry faces inflationary pressures Read more Share 1h ago 11.35 CEST Britons give classic round tomato the red card as coloured and vine varieties score For a long time the classic round, red tomato has dominated British salads and sandwiches, but its supremacy is coming under threat as sales of rainbow colours and the upmarket rival “cherry on the vine” take off. “Non-red tomatoes” sales are up 21% this year, a growth rate that far exceeds the overall market, according to Paul Faulkner, of Evesham Vale Growers. View image in fullscreen A variety of tomatoes. Photograph: Yola Watrucka/Alamy This category covers yellow, orange, green, purple, brown and even striped varieties, which are becoming a more common sight in British supermarkets. “We’ve got consumers used to the fact that tomatoes don’t have to be red,” said Faulkner. The grower, which supplies Sainsbury’s and Aldi, is in lockstep with the trends reshaping the tomato industry, having diverted 20% of its growing area to an orange, cherry, on-the-vine variety. In the past growers had worked with seed breeders on colourful varieties but, while they had looked the part, they “didn’t taste great”, said Faulkner. “Now we’ve got new varieties that not only look great but taste fantastic.” Britons spend just over a £1bn a year on tomatoes, according to the grocery data analyst Worldpanel by Numerator. In the year to 14 June, sales are up 3% on the previous 52 weeks. Within that figure, non-red tomatoes are the fastest growing part of the market. Britons give classic round tomato the red card as coloured and vine varieties score Read more Share 1h ago 11.32 CEST Jayne-Anne Gadhia named as preferred candidate for FRC chair Jayne-Anne Gadhia, the former Virgin Money boss, has been named as the government’s preferred candidate for chair of the Financial Reporting Council, succeeding Sir Jan du Plessis, who steps down on 30 September. A chartered accountant by training, she ran Virgin Money from 2007 to 208, where she led the acquisition of Northern Rock and the subsequent listing of the combined business. More recently she has been a founder and innovator in the fintech sector. She serves as chair of Moneyfarm, Ovo Energy and Shakespeare’s Globe, is lead non-executive director at HMRC’s executive committee, senior independent director at the Tate, director at PRA Group and Innovo Group and an adviser to SumUp. View image in fullscreen Jayne Anne Gadhia, then-CEO of Virgin Money in 2017. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian She is also a longstanding champion of diversity in financial services, having served as the UK government’s women in finance champion for five years. Her appointment comes at a significant moment for the FRC as the organisation has undergone substantial transformation under outgoing chair, to improve audit quality, strengthen corporate governance and reporting standards, reform its supervision and enforcement processes and establish itself as a more focused and transparent regulator. The business secretary, Peter Kyle, said: double quotation mark Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia has a proven track record in driving growth and championing high standards in the organisations she leads, along with exceptional experience in financial services. Share 2h ago 11.12 CEST Struggling pub landlords given a lifeline by England’s World Cup heroes The beleaguered pub sector is getting a boost from England’s World Cup run, with some landlords reporting roaring sales as anticipation builds for a bumper night on Wednesday for the semi-final clash with Argentina. Lisa Mayall, the manager of the British Oak in Kingswinford near Dudley in the West Midlands, was jubilant after England’s 2-1 win against Norway on Saturday night and brisk takings at the pub’s till. She expects hundreds more customers for the team’s next game at 8pm BST. View image in fullscreen England fans watching the England v Norway, World Cup match at The Blue Eagle pub owned by Southend United FC. Photograph: Graham Whitby Boot/SUFC/Shutterstock “I think our sales will treble on Wednesday night especially as we’ve got Argentina – there’s so much rivalry and it could be payback for the Hand of God,” she said referring to Maradona’s infamous handball goal against England in the 1986 World Cup. Struggling pub landlords given a lifeline by England’s World Cup heroes Read more Share 2h ago 11.07 CEST European shares have turned positive, pushing cautiously higher. This in sharp contrast to the sell-off in Asia, where South Korea’s Kospi plunged 9.85%. Germany’s Dax rose 0.15% and Italy’s FTSE
الرياض - مباشر: أغلقت مجموعة من الأسهم القيادية والمتوسطة في السوق السعودية باللون الأحمر، بنهاية جلسة بداية الأسبوع، وتركزت الضغوط البيعية بشكل واضح في أسهم الأغذية، والخدمات الصحية، والتأمين، بالإضافة إلى أسهم الاستثمار الصناعي. وأنهى المؤشر لعام للسوق (تاسي) تعاملات جلسة اليوم الأحد على ارتفاع طفيف بنسبة 0.10%، ليغلق عند مستوى 10,818.98 نقطة بمكاسب بلغت 10.55 نقطة. وتصدر سهم شركة الأسماك قائمة الأسهم الأكثر انخفاضاً في السوق الرئيسية، حيث أغلق السهم متراجعاً بنسبة 4.76% ليصل إلى مستوى 70 ريالاً، وشهد السهم نشاطاً في التداولات بقيمة بلغت 66.08 مليون ريال، ناتجة عن تداول 0.92 مليون سهم، وسط عمليات جني أرباح بعد مستويات سعرية سابقة. وسجل سهم شركة المصافي انخفاضاً بنسبة 4.08% ليغلق عند 50.6 ريال، وبلغت قيمة التداولات على السهم 14.08 مليون ريال عبر تداول 0.27 مليون سهم، كما لحق به سهم شركة أنابيب الشرق الذي تراجع بنسبة 3.96% ليصل إلى سعر 218 ريال، مسجلاً تداولات بقيمة 13.77 مليون ريال، حيث تأثر السهم بعمليات تسييل محدودة مع انخفاض كمية الأسهم المتداولة التي لم تتجاوز 0.06 مليون سهم. وانخفض سهم المركز الكندي الطبي بنسبة 3.35% ليغلق عند 5.77 ريالا، وسط تداولات بلغت قيمتها 7.48 مليون ريال، وتراجع سهم شركة عناية بنسبة 2.98% ليصل إلى 9.12 ريالا، فيما انخفض سهم شركة التعاونية بنسبة 2.60% ليغلق عند مستوى 138.6 ريال، مسجلاً قيمة تداول بلغت 4.07 مليون ريال. وسجل سهم المطاحن العربية انخفاضاً بنسبة 2.44% ليغلق عند 46.4 ريال، كما تراجع سهم مجموعة صافولا بنسبة 2.04% ليصل إلى 26.9 ريال بقيمة تداولات بلغت 15.36 مليون ريال. وأغلق سهم بدجت السعودية على انخفاض بنسبة 2.21% عند مستوى 30.1 ريال، حيث بلغت القيمة المتداولة على السهم 10.07 مليون ريال من خلال تداول 0.33 مليون سهم.
ارتفع مؤشر الأسهم السعودية الرئيس بمقدار 10.55 نقطة ليصل إلى مستوى 10.818.98 نقطة، وبتداولات بلغت قيمتها 2.2 مليار ريال. ووفق النشرة الاقتصادية اليومية لوكالة الأنباء السعودية لسوق الأسهم السعودية، بلغت كمية الأسهم المتداولة 126 مليون سهم، إذ سجّلت أسهم 135 شركة ارتفاعاً في قيمتها، فيما تراجعت أسهم 117 شركة. الأكثر ارتفاعاً وكانت أسهم شركات ليفا، وطباعة تغليف، وصادرات، ورؤوم، والكابلات السعودية الأكثر ارتفاعاً، بينما كانت أسهم شركات الأسماك، والمصافي، وأنابيب الشرق، والمركز الكندي الطبي، وعناية الأكثر انخفاضاً في التعاملات. وراوحت نسب الارتفاع والانخفاض ما بين 9.93% و4.76%، فيما كانت أسهم شركات صادرات، ودرب السعودية، وباتك، وكيان السعودية، وبترو رابغ الأكثر نشاطاً بالكمية، بينما كانت أسهم شركات الراجحي، ورسن، والأسماك، ومسك، وأرامكو السعودية الأكثر نشاطاً في القيمة. وأغلق مؤشر الأسهم السعودية الموازية (نمو) اليوم منخفضاً بمقدار 176.78 نقطة ليصل إلى مستوى 22554.84 نقطة، وبتداولات بلغت قيمتها 12 مليون ريال، وبلغت كمية الأسهم المتداولة أكثر من مليوني سهم.
الرياض- مباشر: أنهى مؤشر السوق المالية السعودية الرئيسية "تاسي" تعاملات اليوم الأحد على ارتفاع بنسبة 0.10% ليصل إلى مستوى 10,818.98 نقطة، وسط إجمالي قيمة تداولات بلغت 2,208.44 مليون ريال. وتركزت السيولة بشكل مكثف في قطاع المصارف وشركات التأمين والخدمات التقنية، حيث استحوذت الأسهم العشرة الأكثر نشاطاً من حيث القيمة على حصة مؤثرة من إجمالي التدفقات النقدية للجلسة. تصدر مصرف الراجحي قائمة الأسهم الأكثر نشاطاً من حيث القيمة المتداولة، حيث بلغت قيمة التداولات عليه 152.55 مليون ريال عبر تداول 2.34 مليون سهم، وأغلق السهم على تراجع طفيف بنسبة 0.15% عند سعر 65.1 ريال. وجاء هذا التحرك في ظل استمرار المصرف في قيادة السيولة بالسوق الرئيسية كأحد أكبر الأوزان النسبية في المؤشر. وفي المرتبة الثانية من حيث السيولة، حل سهم شركة رسن لتقنية المعلومات (رسن) مسجلاً تداولات بقيمة 89.87 مليون ريال، وأنهى السهم الجلسة على ارتفاع ملحوظ بنسبة 3.70% ليصل إلى مستوى 140 ريال، وذلك بعد تداول 0.65 مليون سهم. وشهد سهم شركة الأسماك ضغوطاً بيعية وضعته في المرتبة الثالثة من حيث القيمة المتداولة بنحو 66.08 مليون ريال، حيث سجل السهم أكبر تراجع بين الأسهم النشطة بنسبة 4.76% ليغلق عند 70 ريال، مع تداول 0.92 مليون سهم خلال الجلسة. من جانبه، سجل سهم شركة الشرق الأوسط للكابلات المتخصصة (مسك) أداءً إيجابياً بنمو قدره 3.35% ليغلق عند 33.36 ريال، وبقيمة تداولات بلغت 64.65 مليون ريال ناتجة عن تداول 1.9 مليون سهم. وتبعه سهم أرامكو السعودية الذي شهد استقراراً مائلاً للارتفاع بنسبة 0.22% عند سعر 26.78 ريال، محققاً سيولة بلغت 63.8 مليون ريال. وفي قطاع الطاقة والبتروكيماويات، ارتفع سهم شركة بترو رابغ بنسبة 2.67% ليغلق عند 13.82 ريال، مسجلاً قيمة تداولات بلغت 55.47 مليون ريال، وهي القيمة التي تحققت من خلال تداول 4.03 مليون سهم، مما جعله الأعلى من حيث كمية الأسهم المتداولة بين قائمة العشرة الكبار بالسيولة. أما في القطاع المصرفي، فقد تراجع سهم مصرف الإنماء بنسبة 0.86% ليغلق عند 24.29 ريال بقيمة تداول 54.97 مليون ريال، كما سجل سهم البنك الأهلي السعودي تراجعاً طفيفاً بنسبة 0.05% عند سعر 38.36 ريال وبسيولة بلغت 45.38 مليون ريال. وفي ختام قائمة الأسهم الأكثر نشاطاً بالقيمة، سجل سهم شركة معادن ارتفاعاً بنسبة 1.82% ليصل إلى 58.8 ريال بسيولة قدرها 42 مليون ريال، تلاه سهم شركة سابك الذي ارتفع بنسبة 1.26% ليغلق عند مستوى 52.2 ريال وبقيمة تداولات بلغت 38.06 مليون ريال.
الرياض - مباشر: جاء ارتفاع سوق الأسهم السعودية بنهاية جلسة اليوم الأحد، مدعوماً بأداء إيجابي لمجموعة من الأسهم القيادية والمتوسطة، وسط تدفقات سيولة انتقائية تركزت في أسهم الشركات ذات الإفصاحات التشغيلية الأخيرة. وأنهى مؤشر السوق السعودي الرئيسي (تاسي) تعاملات جلسة اليوم الأحد على ارتفاع طفيف بنسبة 0.10%، ليغلق عند مستوى 10,818.98 نقطة بمكاسب بلغت 10.55 نقطة. وتصدر سهم شركة ليفا قائمة الأسهم الأكثر ارتفاعاً في السوق الرئيسية، بعد أن صعد 9.93% ليصل إلى سعر 14.61 ريال للسهم الواحد. وبلغت القيمة المتداولة على السهم نحو 10.8 مليون ريال، نتجت عن تداول 0.76 مليون سهم، وجاء هذا الصعود القوي في ظل نشاط شرائي مكثف على أسهم قطاع التأمين التي شهدت طلباً متزايداً خلال ساعات التداول. وارتفع سهم الشركة السعودية للطباعة والتغليف بنسبة 9.91% ليغلق عند 7.21 ريال، مسجلاً تداولات بقيمة 3.92 مليون ريال عبر تبادل 0.56 مليون سهم، كما سجل سهم الشركة السعودية للصادرات الصناعية (صادرات) نمواً سعرياً بنسبة 8.89% ليغلق عند 2.45 ريال، محققاً واحدة من أعلى قيم التداول بين الأسهم الرابحة بنحو 30.76 مليون ريال، مع تداول كميات ضخمة بلغت 12.84 مليون سهم. وشهد سهم شركة رؤوم التجارية ارتفاعا نسبته 6.15% ليصل إلى 72.5 ريال، وبقيمة تداولات بلغت 23.79 مليون ريال، كما صعد سهم شركة الكابلات السعودية بنسبة 5.40% ليغلق عند مستوى 168 ريال، بكمية تداول بلغت 0.03 مليون سهم، بلغت قيمتها 5.44 مليون ريال. وحقق سهم شركة سهل ارتفاعاً بنسبة 4.49% ليغلق عند 15.36 ريال، وبقيمة تداول بلغت 5.29 مليون ريال، وتبعته شركة أمانة للتأمين التعاوني التي زاد سعر سهمها بنسبة 4.34% ليصل إلى 7.7 ريال، مسجلة تداولات بقيمة 5.96 مليون ريال. كما برز سهم شركة سيسكو القابضة في قطاع النقل والخدمات اللوجستية بارتفاع نسبته 4.32% ليغلق عند 36.2 ريال، وسط تداولات بلغت قيمتها 16.58 مليون ريال، وفي قطاع التقنية والخدمات الرقمية، سجل سهم شركة رسن لتقنية المعلومات ارتفاعاً بنسبة 3.70% ليصل إلى 140 ريال، محققاً أعلى قيمة تداول في قائمة الرابحين بلغت 89.87 مليون ريال.
Killing time playing pool at the West Rhyl youth club, friends Sienna, 19, and Jake, 26, are unanimous when asked what a tour of the north Wales seaside town should look like. “The first place I’d show anyone is ‘Crackhead Circle’,” Sienna says. The small public garden behind the town hall and a paved area by the closed home bargain store Wilko in the adjacent high street host several strung-out characters on a cold February afternoon. Police cars crawl through the area every 15 minutes or so as part of Project Renew, a year-long crackdown on gang activity and drugs. On the seafront, a row of Victorian hotels look out over the milky-green Irish Sea, but their glamour has long faded; the dilapidated buildings now serve as emergency accommodation for the council. Sienna waves at a group of people gathered on the steps of the Westminster hotel as she walks past. Her family moved around a lot before coming to Rhyl a few years ago. They lived at the hotel when they arrived. View image in fullscreen Sienna and Jake in one of Rhyl’s amusement arcades. ‘My mates who have jobs are all working part-time,’ she says She is a gifted athlete, but a basketball injury that required major surgery on her leg interfered with her education, pursuing sports and entering the world of work. Q&A What is the Against the tide series? Show Over the next year, the Against the Tide project from the Guardian’s Seascape team will be reporting on the lives of young people in coastal communities across England and Wales. Young people in many of England's coastal towns are disproportionately likely to face poverty, poor housing, lower educational attainment and employment opportunities than their peers in equivalent inland areas. In the most deprived coastal towns they can be left to struggle with crumbling and stripped-back public services and transport that limit their life choices. For the next 12 months, accompanied by the documentary photographer Polly Braden, we will travel up and down the country to port towns, seaside resorts and former fishing villages to ask 16- to 25-year-olds to tell us about their lives and how they feel about the places they live. By putting their voices at the front and centre of our reporting, we want to examine what kind of changes they need to build the futures they want for themselves. Was this helpful? Thank you for your feedback. “It has been difficult to settle down here,” she says. “I don’t think it’s that dangerous, but you have to be careful by the bus station.” Rhyl West has topped deprivation tables in Wales for decades. Drugs and violence are significant problems in the once elegant holiday town; the ward has a crime rate of 197 for every 1,000 people – about 2.5 times the average for Wales. The violent crime rate is 88 for every 1,000, or more than double Wales’ average. View image in fullscreen Donna and Chris, both youth workers, talking to young people in the town centre about what opportunities exist in the resort The town’s young people, like so many others in coastal communities in England and Wales, leave school and often find themselves faced with few opportunities for work and little chance of finding somewhere affordable to live. “My mates who have jobs are all working part-time in shops or deliveries or tourism,” says Sienna. “Almost no one can afford to move out from their parents and get their own place. They can’t afford to leave either.” double quotation mark Our issue in Rhyl is getting people into work. Many young people lack the basics Melanie Evans, Working Denbighshire Sienna has a fiance in Northern Ireland but she does not have the money to see him very often. “We haven’t figured out how we can be together yet.” But there are tentative signs that the tide may finally be turning for Rhyl. Project Renew is working – in January, North Wales police said crime was down 14% on a year ago – and everyone the Guardian met agreed there is less drug use on the street. Years of construction work on the promenade finally finished last summer, the nearby Queen’s Market food hall, waterpark and cinema have all been recently revamped, and a neighbourhood board has been put together to decide how to spend millions allocated through the government’s Pride in Place funding. View image in fullscreen The Westminster hotel, where Sienna and her family lived for more than a year after moving to Rhyl. Several of the town’s old hotels now serve as temporary council accommodation Pride in Place, Labour’s answer to the Conservatives’ levelling up strategy, has awarded hundreds of places, many of them coastal, with £20m. The proviso is that local people, the MP, the council, businesses and community organisations must all work together on how best to spend it. Gill German, MP for Clwyd North, is keen that young people in Rhyl are involved in that process. “The youth service consulted 600 young people about what they need,” she says. “They [the young people] still don’t think the beach belongs to them – they think it’s for tourists – so we need to try to make sure they start feeling the benefits of living by the sea and those wellbeing factors [associated with that].” double quotation mark If you keep doing the same thing, you’ll keep getting the same results. We needed to do something different Melanie Evans, Working Denbighshire Researchers from University College London recently travelled up and down the English coast talking to local people for their Coastal Youth Life Chances project and concluded that one of the things that would make a difference to young people in seaside communities would be to include them in planning and decision-making. “We’ve managed to get more young people on Our Rhyl [the Pride in Place board],” says German. “Hopefully that will start connecting them to the growing opportunities [in Rhyl].” Rhyl is unusual in that it is youthful in comparison to most UK coastal towns. It is also an outlier in that the unemployment rate in Denbighshire is 4.8%, lower than the UK average of 5.2%, even though coastal areas tend to have more people out of work. “Our issue in Rhyl is getting people into work,” says Melanie Evans, of Working Denbighshire. “Many young people lack the basics, such as knowing how to talk to people in a workplace or an office, or how to dress. Those are skills we are teaching.” In 2017, Working Denbighshire consolidated more than a dozen funding streams from the Welsh government and Westminster into one pool, making it simpler to coordinate services and channel money to where it is needed most. View image in fullscreen Old photographs of Rhyl in its heyday, when it was a thriving resort for visitors from Merseyside The results are clear. In 2021, Project Barod was launched – Barod means “ready” in Welsh – offering one-to-one mentoring support in helping find work or training, workshops to help build confidence and skills, such as cooking classes and beach clean-ups, as well as classes in reading, writing and maths. When participants are ready, they can access subsidised work experience, and the project also supports people struggling to hold down a job, and those who want to retrain. double quotation mark It’s tough working with short-term funding … That lack of certainty makes it harder because young people can’t rely on us Jay McGuinness “Our thinking was: if you’re going to keep doing the same thing, you’re going to keep getting the same results,” says Evans. “We needed to do something different to break the cycle of poverty.” The number of people in education or training after support from Working Denbighshire in the first half of the 2025-26 financial year was 163, up 233% on the department’s target of 70, with 38% of those helped aged 16 to 24, by far the biggest demographic group. By his own admission, Luke, 19, did not enjoy school, and had no idea what he wanted to do when he left. After quitting a job he hated at a clothes shop, he was referred to Barod by the jobcentre. Over the past year the programme has helped him study for a roofing qualification and find work as an apprentice. View image in fullscreen Florence and another trainee flanking Steve Baxendale. The baker was teaching them how to make pizzas in a scheme run by Project Barod View image in fullscreen ‘Learning something new gives me a sense of accomplishment,’ says 25-year-old Florence “I’m still very shy. Talking to people and paperwork and exams and stuff can be overwhelming,” he says. “I never imagined I would be doing this though. Eventually, I want to run my own business and work for myself.” At a Barod pizza-making class at Use Your Loaf, a community bakery, the small group are being shown different ways to stretch and toss dough by the baker, Steve Baxendale. Florence, 25, cracks a shy smile as she throws the thin circle in the air, specks of flour spotting her glasses and apron. Health issues have prevented her from applying to university yet, although a degree in cognitive science is still the goal. “I’ve been going to workshops like these for a couple of years now,” she says. “They help with confidence. View image in fullscreen Sienna and Jake are regulars at Rhyl’s boxing club. She says it’s a highlight of her week and is now thinking of training to becoming a youth or social worker “Making something or learning something new gives me a sense of accomplishment, and it’s sometimes easier to tackle the things I need to do when I feel I’ve already done something right.” For all of Rhyl’s recent successes, some teenagers and young people are still falling through the cracks. Jay McGuinness, a social worker who trains Sienna and Jake at the Rhyl Youth Boxing Club, says one part of the job is walking around the town centre in the early evening and getting to know the young people hanging out there. The aim is to build enough trust that they might then engage with the youth centre. “We’re a non-profit, we’re not run by the council, and it’s real
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في تطور خطير للتوترات الإقليمية، أبلغت السعودية إيران بعدم استهدافها مع التحذير من رد محتمل، وذلك استمرارًا للضربات رغم الاعتذار الإيراني. ومع مخاطر تحول الصراع إلى حرب استنزاف، تتدخل الصين بإرسال مبعوث خاص للشرق الأوسط للوساطة بين الأطراف، وسط تحليلات مصورة لتداعيات الحرب.
تشهد الأسواق العالمية توترًا متصاعدًا بسبب إغلاق مصافي التكرير في الخليج والغارات على منشآت النفط في طهران التي تسببت في أمطار سوداء، مما دفع أسعار النفط للارتفاع ووضع الاحتياطي الفيدرالي في مأزق مع تراجع سوق العمل، ورغم ذلك صعدت الأسهم 99 نقطة لتتجاوز المؤشرات 10,930 نقطة، مع توقعات بعدم العودة للوضع الطبيعي قريباً.
شهدت العلاقات الاقتصادية بين المملكة العربية السعودية والجمهورية العربية السورية نقلة نوعية بتوقيع حزمة من الاتفاقيات الاستثمارية الضخمة بقيمة مليارات الدولارات. تهدف هذه الصفقات إلى تعزيز الاقتصاد السوري ودعم جهود إعادة الإعمار، وتشمل مشاريع حيوية مثل إطلاق شركة طيران مشتركة بين البلدين، ومشروع اتصالات ضخم بقيمة مليار دولار، مما يعكس التزام السعودية بدعم الاستقرار الاقتصادي في سوريا وفتح آفاق واسعة للتعاون التجاري والاستثماري المشترك.
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