MEDI1TV Afrique : JT Economie - 27/03/2025
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00:00Welcome to Medias, it's time for your economy news.
00:11In Morocco, gross interest rates of the Treasury reached 32.5 billion dirhams in the first two months of the year,
00:18marking an increase of 1.3% compared to the previous year.
00:23According to the Directorate for Studies and Financial Forecasts,
00:26the volume of short maturities has increased considerably, from 851.4 million dirhams to 5.9 billion dirhams,
00:35thus representing 18.2% of the raises.
00:39However, long maturities fell by 54.2%, i.e. only 32% of the raises.
00:46Treasury reimbursements fell from 16.5% to 10.1 billion dirhams,
00:52which led to a sharp rise of 12.1% to reach 22.4 billion dirhams.
01:03We continue with the latest figures from the Directorate for Studies and Financial Forecasts.
01:08Cement sales, a major indicator of construction activity,
01:12have increased by 12.6% over the first two months of the year,
01:16after an increase of 7.5% the previous year.
01:21This increase is mainly due to a strong dynamic in several sectors,
01:25such as pre-employment cement, prefabricated cement, infrastructure and buildings.
01:30As for real estate financing, the increase in loans has accelerated its growth by 2.8% at the end of January,
01:37thus reaching 311.8 billion dirhams.
01:41Real estate loans have increased by 1.9%,
01:44while those for real estate promoters have recorded a significant growth of 7.7%,
01:51representing the best performance in eight years.
01:57In national economic news, OCP NutriCrops, a subsidiary of the OCP Group,
02:02is the leader in the phosphate fertiliser market,
02:05which aims to increase its fertiliser production.
02:08It has announced a strategic investment to bring its capacity to produce 9 million tonnes of fertiliser by 2028,
02:15with the creation of two new mining and industrial axes, Amzinda and Meskala.
02:21Designed to function exclusively thanks to renewable energies
02:25and exploiting unconventional waters via desalination and wastewater treatment,
02:30the Amzinda and Meskala poles embody a new generation of industrial sites,
02:36combining the advanced technologies of Industry 5.0,
02:40Artificial Intelligence and the automation of production processes.
02:47Internationally, the United Kingdom inflation has experienced a surprising slowdown in February at 2.8% over a year.
02:54The figure, published by the National Office for Statistics,
02:58is lower than the anticipations of the analysts consulted by Bloomberg,
03:02which predicted that inflation would remain at 3%.
03:05In addition to growth, the Labour Government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer
03:10has to deal with the high interest rates of the British debt,
03:14the announced increase in military spending and the threats of a commercial war by Donald Trump.
03:20The Public Budgeting Agency announced a 1% growth forecast this year,
03:26a significant drop from the anticipated 2% by the end of October.
03:30The agency has also warned that the United Kingdom no longer has any budgetary margin.
03:38In the United States, the Department of Commerce has announced the addition of about 50 companies,
03:43mainly Chinese, Iranian and Emirati,
03:46to its list of companies to which semiconductor exports are limited or prohibited.
03:52Washington justifies this decision by the fact that the activities of these companies
03:56would be contrary to international policy and to the national security of the United States.
04:01The addition of this list imposes on American companies to obtain a pre-agreement with the US government
04:07before exporting semiconductors to the targeted companies.
04:11Note that Washington has imposed restrictions on more than 150 Chinese companies so far,
04:17both regarding semiconductors and the equipment necessary for the production of the latter.
04:22China has systematically condemned these restrictions and decided last September to replicate,
04:27imposing restrictions against the United States on the materials and components necessary for the manufacture of semiconductors.