MEDI1TV Afrique : JT Economie - 30/01/2025
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00:00Hello and welcome, it's time for your economy news. With 17.4 million arrivals of international tourists in 2024, Morocco claims to be a major player in tourism in Africa.
00:21The World Tourism Organization noted that 2.2 billion dollars have been allocated to the sector in Morocco between 2014 and 2023, while investments in new projects in this area have reached 2.6 billion dollars between 2015 and 2024.
00:41According to the World Tourism Organization, in the last five years, Morocco has drawn an average of 3.5 billion dollars in direct foreign investment per year in all sectors.
00:54More than 114,365 citizens demonstrated in 2024 their desire to take advantage of the direct housing assistance program. According to the Ministry of Health, more than 63,000 people are currently benefiting from it, of which 25% are Moroccans living abroad and 32% are young.
01:19Among them, 63% received assistance of 70,000 dirhams, while 37% received 100,000 dirhams. This program had a notable economic impact with an increase in cement sales of 9.45%, real estate loans 1.7% and loans to real estate promoters of 7.2%.
01:44In economic news, Morocco is also planning an investment of more than 27 billion dirhams to strengthen its electrical network over the next five years. According to the National Office for Electricity and Drinking Water, this investment aims to maximize the integration of renewable energies, including wind and solar, in the provinces of the south and southeast.
02:08According to the same source, this project aims to guarantee the competitiveness of renewable energy while reducing costs and decarbonizing the economy, with the aim of strengthening the attractiveness of Morocco for energy industry such as battery production and gigafactories.
02:25Internationally, the Spanish economy recorded a growth of 3.2% in 2024, 0.5 points more than in 2023, supported by the increase in exports and national consumption and the performance of the tourist sector.
02:42According to the National Institute for Statistics, this figure slightly exceeds the forecasts of the FMI and the Bank of Spain, which estimated the growth at 3.1%. The growth was drawn by exports, which progressed by 3% at an annual rate, but also by household consumption, which climbed by 3.7%.
03:03Agriculture was the most dynamic sector, with a growth of 8.5% ahead of services 3.8% and industry 2.9%.
03:15And then internationally, the presentation of the latest artificial intelligence model by the Chinese company DeepSeek, whose performance would be superior to that of its American competitors, caused a sharp drop in the value of American and European technological actions.
03:33The Chinese startup specializing in artificial intelligence panicked on the global markets on Monday, causing a collapse of technological values in the United States and Europe.
03:44NVIDIA, the world's largest artificial intelligence chip manufacturer, saw its shares fall by 17%, erasing $600 billion in stock capitalization, in what was the strongest intra-daily drop in history.
03:59The European chip manufacturer of artificial intelligence, ASML, also saw the course of its actions fall by 7%. The Nasdaq Composite index, a strong technological component, has lost more than 3%, and the technological sector as a whole has fallen by 5.6%.
04:19We come to the end of our edition today. Thank you for your loyalty and good continuation of the program.
04:29Transcribed by ESO, translated by —