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Roborock opens with a 1,500 euro washing machine

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Roborock is One of the best known brands in the vacuum robots segment And he has just expanded his catalog with new products. Hand vacuum cleaners, a new high-end robot, a corteped robot and the one that concerns us: its first high-end washer. It is called Roborock Zeo X and marks a trend: that of Chinese brands entering the large appliance sector. Chinese technology brands want to conquer the home Chinese brands that manufacture appliances there were already many (Haier, Hisense, Measure …), but recently we are seeing as other purely technological brands are going to this category. We have the precedent with the alliance between Midea and Huawei. In 2020 they announced a series of appliances that worked with Harmonyosalthough it did not leave China. A clear recent example we have in Xiaomi, which had already conquered mobile phones and has long expanded its ecosystem to other segments: out of home, The car. Inside, Large appliances. We saw it in its event to celebrate the fifteen anniversary that was held last May. Within their Mijia range they announced airs conditioned, refrigerators, washing machines and even an intelligent tap. For now, Only air conditioner has arrivedbut the plan is to bring the fridge and the washing machine before the end of the year. Now, Roborock follows his steps. Roborock Zeo X: Lava and Dry with a design that does not look like a washing machine Earlier this year they already made their first foray into the washing of clothes with the Roborock Zeo Lite and Zeo Minibut this is its first high-end washing machine and consolidates its entry into a segment that until recently was unknown. Roborock Zeo X has a embedded design that moves away from the classic front front. The door is tactile and the controls are found in the glass itself, but when we are not using it they are not seen, leaving a clean front that does not seem like a washing machine. A Chinese company that you do not know manufactures 35% of all microwaves in the world. Probably yours too To ensure deep and efficient washing, it has a technology called Finefoam that allows you to better penetrate tissues, while reducing water consumption by 32% and energy by 20%, always according to Roborock. As for drying, its ZEO-CYCLE function uses a natural zeolite mineral to dry at low temperatures (between 37 and 50 degrees), so that problems with delicate tissues are avoided. Of course, intelligent functions could not miss. Its algorithm automatically adjusts the amount of water, drum speed and drying temperature. It also has a detergent tank that is adjusted automatically and avoids us having to fill it every time. It will cost 1,499 euros. In Xataka | We are experts in technology, but it is time to buy a washing machine and we suffer

It is very likely that charging bar is more false than a wooden euro

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You get home after a long work day, you throw yourself into the couch, you turn on your console, you release the game you are already vitiating. Well, no, because before your avatar, the map and your mount appear before you There is a load bar that must be completed. It’s normal, you’ll think. You have to load the textures, the game or whatever, go to know, but that bar advances, so something will be doing. There is little left. A little less. Oh, how slow, will now be with something heavy, surely. Well, most likely no. Most likely, this load bar will be false and its only goal is to play with your brain. Charging… Load screens, with their bar, an illustration and perhaps a text with advice or some of LoreThey were necessary. They served to entertain the player while the machine was looking for, read and loaded the game information on a console whose power was not, from afar, the one that the current devices have. It was a normal solution, because the other was a black screen or showing a half -load level that would leave a bad impression. Load screen of ‘The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim’ | Image: The Elder Scrolls Wiki However, technology has evolved and, currently, the few bars of progress that we can find in video games have more customs and psychology than useful. That does not mean that there are no load screens, because there are even if they are very well camouflaged, but the speed of the components has allowed us to use alternative methods to avoid them. It is false. If we are in the tail of an attraction in Port Aventura, we calculate how much a trip lasts and we look forward, more or less We can estimate how much is left to ride. In a process that is happening on a computer without us seeing anything, that is much more complex not to say impossible. Load screens and progress bars are the only way that the software has to indicate that something is happening, that everything is going well, but they are false. Progress bars are the only way to tell us to indicate that it is doing something, even if we don’t see it Because? Because players They don’t trust fluid progress bars. A progress bar that moves slowly gives a feeling of bad optimization, but a bar that moves too fast or an instant load could lead to think that something has gone wrong or that is not well done. Mike Bithell, developer and creator of ‘Thomas was Alone’, He already pulled the blanket in 2023 When he confirmed that the cargo bar is fictitious and that, really, it is the pulls that the bar gives that indicate that something is happening. Load screen of ‘Guild Wars 2’. Below right can the progress bar that, in this case, is circular | Image: Xataka Basically, the bottom of everything is that we expect to wait, if that makes sense. Rami Ismail, video game developer and well -known industry disseminator, confirmed In X that he had “worked on projects where we simulate load bars, we extended load times or made the load bars move artificially at unequal speeds.” Raúl Munárriz, executive director of the Now extinct Tequila Workshe also said that “I have never worked in a game that did not have a false load bar. The reais cause anxiety.” Is your whole life a lie? Yes and no. Making a progress bar is something complex because there are many processes that come into play during a load, as many as factors can make it more or less fast. We could make a progress bar based on how many files they have moved from x a y, but it would not be fluid because the files, surely, have different sizes. Nor would it work to do it based on the transferred data, since moving few heavy files is faster than moving many small files. And neither depends on how much it remains so that all the steps of the process are completed because it is enough for Chrome to open so that the state of the PC is altered and the times change. There is no perfect solution. The load screens are still there. Although they are not seen as such, many current video games continue to have load screens. More dynamics, more concealed, but visible. Normally, when a game artificially slows you it is a sign that, in the background, it is carrying what is coming later. A known example is that of the elevators of ‘Mass Effect‘, but we can also think about travel through the hyperspace of’Star Wars: Jedi Survivor‘, any medium of teleport, the time we run through Yggdrasil in’God of War‘, when we receive a call in’Gears of War‘That forces us to walk very slowly or in a kinematics that jumps at the right time to separate one level from another. The techniques for video games not to disappear with a load screen are wide and varied. It is very likely that the game is carrying elements in the background while we do something else without realizing it. Or to load and download the textures in real time depending on the distance and our position. Image | Xataka, VECTEZY In Xataka | The milling of a programmer made a fateful mistake of this classic video game into a congratulation message

almost everything to less than 1 euro

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That the purchase basket It has become more expensive In recent years it is no secret. Consumers seek to save Comparing prices and sometimes moving away from cities to go to surfaces where they have more affordable products. This is what is happening with this 30 kilometers from Madrid after a Video on Tiktok. Low prices. “The cheapest supermarket in Madrid. Almost everything to less 1 euro.” Thus begins the video that has been viralized in question (although There are more). In it, the creator shows us many products that cost less than 1 euro, from melons, watermelons, tuna cans and cleaning products. To olive oil, One of the most expensive productsit costs only 3.39 euros. The paste: it is about 40 minutes by car from the center of Madrid, but that has not prevented many Madrid people from leaving the road to save a little. How do they. The supermarket is called Mermax and has two headquarters in Madrid, one in Griñón and one in Meco, although it is that of Griñón that is mentioned most in social networks. According to The Spanishbelong to the supermarket group the point and, to get those low prices in first brands, they use a wholesale sale model without intermediaries. “It’s like an autonomous cash & carry, but without having a card,” says Cintia Ramiro in his video. In Google’s reviews we see Some comments which says there are also products with next expiration date. Divided opinions. Diving through Google’s reviews we find comments of all kinds. Many Good prices stand outbut others They don’t see it so cheap. In the videos it may seem that all products are worth less than 1 euro, but the comments are intuited that they are only some offers. There are also several clients who point to It is not worth going so farsome even call it “misleading advertising” Influencers Low-Cost. Inflation has made Fill the purchase basket costs more and more. In social networks we find all kinds of tricks and advice to save everything possible, even influencers whose content is focused on maximum savings. This is the case of @diaryofacheapskate (Translated would be “Diary of a tacaña”), an influencer who tells how he managed to pay the mortgage at 32 with tricks such as diluting the milk and never wasting anything, even what has already expired. There is an undisputed leader. Although they arise supermarkets that presume to be cheaper As Mermax, the reality is that they have few already often are only in a very specific area. In Spain there is a supermarket chain that overwhelms And it has stores throughout the country. We talk about Mercadona, which has a 26.7% market share, far ahead of the second since Carrefour occupies with 9.2%. In addition, almost all Spaniards (93%) have ever bought in a supermarket in the Juan Roig chain. Images | Mermax in Tiktok In Xataka | The psychology of spending little money: the best tricks to save endorsed by science

In Euro NCAP they are clear how Chinese cars are

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The Chinese cars They have gone from anecdote to something common on European roads. Great manufacturers such as Byd or Saic have own fleets for bring their cars from Chinabut also They are expanding to manufacture on European land. Some brands are opening concessionaires and, although the market grows, there may be a runrun about whether the Chinese car is As sure as the European, Japanese or South Korean. And who is clear about the answer is the agency that gives the security score in Europe. EURO NCAP. Skepticism. My partner Alberto confesses that one of the Questions that make friends and family more When addressing the purchase of a Chinese car it has to do with security. There is still a certain skepticism due to that belief that the ‘cheap made in China’ translates into some quality. With the new policies promoted by the Government of Xi Jinping, in fact, it seeks consolidate the country as a reference in the Technologies of the futureand precisely they have a lot to say in the battery technology or the electric car. Obligations. Beyond that technological leadership, several things must be taken into account. Chinese companies have been forming joint ventures with more consolidated companies. Geely, for example, has an idyll with Renault. SAIC with Volkswagenso both They share technologies and objectives in areas such as the development of the electric car. In addition to this mutual learning, obligations by regulations come into play. Since 2022, The European Union forces that all new cars approved on continental soil must have a Safety elements series such as emergency braking, the fatigue detector, notices on excess speed, lane outlet or rear camera with cross traffic alert, among other measures. And this is also forced Chinese manufacturers. In fact, due to pedestrian danger, The Tesla Cybertruck is neither expected in Europe. Euro ncap is clear. And apart from the regulations, we have an agency as EURO NCAP. This is the person in charge of performing tests to measure active and liabilities security elements and, when there is a maximum score, it is something that manufacturers use as a marketing element. Surely you have often heard that “Five Euro NCAP stars” Well, the funny thing is that, as we read in Reutersthe organism considers that Chinese cars not only have nothing to envy to Westerners, but are superior to certain models. Matthew Avery is Euro Ncap’s Director of Strategic Development and has been blunt about it: “Forget about what you can think about that the Chinese mean lower quality or worse safety performance. The quality of vehicles models of Chinese brands is better than that of others.”

There is a way for a truck to go from Italy to Madrid without spending a diesel euro. Mounting it on a train

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From Italy to Madrid in truck but without stepping on the road. It is the concept of the railway highway that unites the transalpine country with the Spanish capital and that allows moving low -cost merchandise with a reduced impact on polluting emissions. A project that has already been tested in Spain but now seeks its extension even Portugal. From Italy to Madrid. That is the route that the trucks moved by Tramesaa company that keeps an exceptional service in our country alive. Specifically, to put in Madrid some trucks with origin in Italy that on the road have hundreds of kilometers but have not spent a drop of diesel. And it is that these trucks, as explained in The countryThey arrive at the Valencian port where they are collected by a huge crane that deposits them on a railway platform. The truck becomes a merchandise container that travels to Madrid railway. Already in the capital, return to the road to distribute the merchandise. What is a railway highway? This system is what is known as a railway highway. That is, the use of railways to transport trucks that, in normal circumstances, should travel on the road. A system that, currently, is only active between Madrid and Valencia but wants to project to reach Portugal. And makes sense? Yes, and a lot. First because it is a less polluting system. Adif calculates That using trucks as rail containers is almost five times less polluting than circulating along the road, which entails tire wear, brakes … and huge diesel consumption. But, above all, it is interesting for the transport company. And the train trip can be done with or without a cabin. Without it, driver expenses is minimized since trucks travel alone on the train. In this way, the driver handles a tractor head at the origin, deposits the trailer there and a second conductor, already at destination, collects the merchandise with a second tractor head. In this way, the number of hours at the wheel and the distance traveled is drastically reduced. The Spanish case. As we said, at the moment, the railway highway that connects the Valencian port with Madrid is the only one that is active. However, the system is not much less new. In the past we have already had similar attempts and, in fact, we must not retrieve far back in time. In 2019, Renfe merchandise and VIIA, SNCF subsidiary, launched a service with up to six trains by direction and week between Barcelona and Bettembourg (Luxembourg). The project was canceled shortly after with the crisis of Coronavirus and reactivated in 2022. However, ended up closing operations A few months later. In Trenvista They point out that this case is the last but not the only one we have had in our country. At the end of the 80s a railway highway between Madrid and Barcelona was also opened. However, an accident resulted in the closure of past two years. In Europe. Outside our country, the transport of goods using railways is not new either. VIIA, the company that wanted to exploit the connection between Barcelona and Luxembourg, Keep active Four lines that explode exclusively and four other lines in collaboration with other operators. Their business extends almost exclusively by France (they have one that ends in Italy) and most of them collect merchandise that arrives through the Eurotunnel, demonstrating the advantage of the system when combining large ports and cities with good rail connections. In fact, it was in France where a railway highway began for the first time in 1936. After World War II, services would continue to be expanded with the services with the Alpine railway highway which is the one that crosses between France and Italy (already near Turin). And in the future? At the moment it remains to be seen but from the institutions you are trying to close more projects. There are currently a total of 15 in progress that are in different phases. In service with metric width we have Valencia-Madrid and underway you are already working on: Algeciras-Zaragoza Zaragoza-Tarragona Huelva-Madrid-Zaragoza Seville-Madrid-Zaragoza Valencia-Badajoz-Contrancamento (Portugal) Madrid-Badajoz-Contrancamento-Suporto (Portugal) In study phase are: Tarragona-Barcelona Madrid-Valladolid-Burgos-Vitoria Murcia-Madrid Cádiz-Madrid Tamarite of Litera-Irún Zaragoza-Pamplona-Vitoria In addition, a standard width is already underway between Barcelona and Le Perthus (France) and the following lines are projected: Murcia-Le Perthus (France) Tarragona-Le Perthus (France) Vitoria-Irún Photo | Ministry of Transportation and Tramesa In Xataka | Two years after Renfe competition entered, the data indicate something: trains are cheaper than ever

Technology are asking for “AI Fluency” for their vacancies. The problem is that a euro is not being invested in teaching it

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Recently, Andy Jassy, ​​CEO of Amazon told them In a statement to its employees that, in the coming years, their jobs They will change or disappear If they do not learn to use AI tools. Companies pronounced on the same line Like DuolingoZapier or Shopify. That turn towards the domain of AI tools has made A new concept Start appearing in technological employment offers: “ai fluency” or literacy in AI. The new hiring requirement with which companies ask that candidates come formed from home in the use of AI. What is literacy in AI. The literacy in artificial intelligence or “ai fluency” in its English terminology, it refers not only to the basic use of AI in the workplace (where its main value has been shown It is the translation) but the ability to integrate it into processes work to optimize them. Wade Foster, co -founder and CEO of Zapier, said in his X profile that the company had established a new standard when hiring, and 100% of its new employees should be “fluids” in AI. That meant that all his New employment offersThey were going to have a new requirement: “AI Fluency”, regardless of whether it is for a position in sales, product or development. How to define that literacy. Zapier It is not the only which has decided to add this new concept to job offers. It is enough to happen A lap By Glassdoor or other technological employment platforms to begin finding offers that already claim that literacy in AI together with requirements such as experience or mastery of programming languages. One of the most recurring questions that users made to Foster after their message was how literacy is measured in the candidate. Zapier’s manager He replied After a few days including a table with examples of the level of literacy in AI that the candidates should have based on the expectations of the position they aspired. The basis of this table is the level of complexity and integration of AI in their work that each candidate is able to demonstrate. Touch on the table to go to the original message “5 years of experience” for Juniors. At this point no one doubts that The use of AI It will be a basic requirement in most jobs in different degrees, as is the use of office tools. That leads us to the question about whether this new requirement will become another irrational demand in job offers, such as those that human resources professionals They have been denouncing for years. Ask for five years of experience for a junior job, 10 years of experience in a programming language that was invented five or being graduated from a particular university. The curiosity of employees. The key to this new ability to get a job is based on the employee know How AI models workhow to give the right commands and how to generate correction loops so that the AI ​​itself detects its mistakes. However, all this needs Advanced training that, for the moment, it is borne by employees who use AI tools on their own and learn to use it Back to companies. According to data from ‘Autumn Work Force Index of 2024’ Prepared by Slack, 76% of the employees surveyed are willing to form in the use of AI for their work. However, 48% of them They would feel uncomfortable recognizing that they currently use it. Companies do not train their employees in AI. The current reality of literacy in the AI ​​of companies collides frontally with their desires to integrate this technology into their processes. A recent report In Infojobs ensures that 1 in 3 employees uses some type of AI in their work. Of those who usually use it, only 20% say they have received some type of training to integrate it into their job, while 60% say they have not received it, nor are there plans to receive it in the next six months. He annual report Infoempleo and adecco supply and demand for employment in Spain 2024 is even more devastating with its figures: 84.71% have not facilitated any training in artificial intelligence to its employees. Realistic jobs against scarcity. According to A report From the Bank of Spain, 45.8% ensure that the shortage of qualified personnel is the main obstacle to integrate into their processes. Impose literacy criteria in unrealistic the positions for junior positions or who do not need it, can chronify that personnel scarcity and prevent the access to the labor market To the youngest. Imposing unreal requirements makes it generate A talent scarcity equally unreal, not because There are no professionals trained To develop that position, but because companies are not investing in training professionals for those vacancies and expect them to come from home and fit 100% in their vacancies. In Xataka | Of engineers to keyboard operators: AI is converting software programming into a mounting chain Image | Pexels (Cottonbro Studio)

A man stayed a 20 -euro bizum sent by mistake. The judge has fined her and has come out ten times more expensive

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With 28 million active users, Bizum is the most used system in Spain for payments among users. We send and receive a lot of money through Bizum and make an mistake when typeing the number we want to send money is something that can happen with relative ease. If we are lucky, they may return it to us, but what happens if who is on the other side decides to stay the money? Now we know. Staying a bizum sent by mistake is very expensive. As we said, making a mistake to type the number to which we want to send a bizum can be quite easy and it is just what happened to a neighbor of Benavente, as they say in Zamora’s opinion. The person who received the 20 euros did not return the amount and the woman decided to denounce him to the authorities. The Provincial Court of Zamora has proved him right and has condemned the receiver of the transfer to return the 20 euros, in addition to paying the judicial coasts and a fine of 180 euros for a slight crime of improper appropriation. More than ten times the original amount. The Civil Code says. The denounced has resorted to the sentence alleging lack of evidence and presumption of innocence, but the judge has confirmed it and considers that the woman had not consented to the transfer. This would apply not only to Bizum, but to transfers and any other payment received by error. He Article 1895 of the Civil Code It is clear, it must always be returned: When something that was not entitled to collect is received, and that by mistake it has been improperly delivered, the obligation to restore it arises. There is jurisprudence. There have been more cases that have reached the courts for transfers made by error, such as this one of an Alicante businessman who faces Three years in jail for not returning a payment of 341,000 That was done by mistake. EITHER This 2015 sentence who condemned a woman for staying with 25,900 euros of the pension plan of her ex -husband, the result of an error of the bank when rescuing the money. Bizum in figures. Bizum It has become the standard of immediate payments in Spain. Arrived in 2016 as part of an initiative among various banking entities, although it was not until 2018 when It extended and began to grow. It currently has 28 million users and it is expected to reach 30 throughout the year. In 2024 an average of 3 million operations were made per day. The record was the past Black Friday (November 29, 2024), with 4.8 million operations. Or what is the same: 55 bizums per second. In total, in 2024 1,093 million operations were made worth 44,206 million euros. We do not know the number of erroneous operations when sending money, but with these numbers it is logical that they are increasing. Bizum grows, legal doubts too. In parallel to this growth, unknowns have also been increasing from the legal and legal point of view. Many users wonder What income or payments should be declared to the Treasury. We know that it is not necessary to declare payments between friends and family, although the freelancers who use it to collect, the income that generate economic profitability as rentals or if the total amount adds more than 10,000 euros per year should do. Doubts have also emerged about whether something that has eliminated the Threshold of 3,000 euros in the control of transfers by the Treasury. In this case, if high amounts are received through Bizum, the Treasury may investigate it, just as they would do if it were a transfer or a metallic income. Little by little, light is shed and it is clear that, at the legal level, Bizum is one more method to move money and apply the same rules as any type of income In Xataka | Timo of the false bizum by mistake: how it works and how to avoid this scam

The world seemed not to be prepared for the end of cash. The digital euro makes it clear that yes

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The unknown about Why datáphones worked in full blackout He brought another question: if the end of effective money made sense or not. Without operating offline TPVs, the cash It was the only form of payment. But not having a connection and having an alternative payment method does not evide on digital alternatives. This is something that Europe was raised with the digital euro more than two years ago The digital euro. After years of study, the European Commission approved in 2023 the First legal framework For him Digital euro. As its name indicates, this will be the digital version of our currency. It is born as an alternative and not as a replacement, at least with the information currently available. The ECB has everything thought. The European Central Bank detailed in that first framework that the digital euro would operate offline to guarantee privacy. The technical details have not yet transcended, since this is a development currency, but the transactions without connection will be one of its bases. Both cards and smartphones will temporarily store the funds, synchronizing with the central system when recovering the connection. A blackout that has not demonstrated so much. Although the blackout left on the table that without TPV there is no way to pay that is not cash, it has failed to show the need for physical money to respond to the need for payment. If the digital euro manages to operate offline, it will be possible to make transactions even in scenarios such as the one lived this week. The methodology. Without too much technical depth, the ECB advanced that short -range technologies (Bluetooth, NFC, etc.) are used to make connections between devices, imposing certain limits for transactions in order to mitigate fraud risks. “The Eurosystem has no interest in collecting data from individual user payments, or in monitoring payment behavior or sharing of those data with government agencies or other public institutions.” While the ECB stated that privacy will be one of the pillars of the digital euro, with a certain degree of anonymization (intermediaries will not be able to access concrete details about transactions), Spain, a ticket country. In countries like GermanySurveys collect that half of the population is not willing to use the digital euro. If we focus on Spain, a study by the IPSOS agency evidenced that 65% of respondents were comfortable with current payment methods and would not use this alternative. Payments are still linked to the private, especially in Spain. According to data from the Bank of Spain 65% of the population used cash in 2023, being the main payment method for purchase in physical stores. Europe wants to have the digital euro ready in the short term (two years ago there was already talk of 2025 and 2026). You won’t have it easy. Image | Greegrose and Moerschy In Xataka | The European Central Bank has been fighting for five years to literally create a “European Bizum”. Now has taken a key step

The United States has started a pulse in the currency market. One in which the euro is being imposed on the dollar

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Uncertainty does not feel good to the bags. Nor to the dollar. At least if we look at its evolution against other currencies, such as Yen, the Swiss Franco or The euro. With The commercial war And Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve as a backdrop, the green ticket has started the week standing at some Minimum levels in front of the European currency that had not been seen for years. The big question is … What does that mean? A March down. Although uncertainty seems to have been installed in the markets, everything indicates that the dollar will say goodbye to March weakened compared to other currencies. He US dollar indexwhich measures its strength against the main foreign currencies, started the penultimate week of the month falling 1% until they were minimal that had not been seen for more than three years. Meanwhile, the euro was quoted above $ 1.15, its maximum value Since 2021. The mirror of currencies and gold. The dollar falls in front of the yen And the Swiss Franco and the eurowhich now marks $ 1,1499 after having reached on Monday 1,1573 per first time Since the end of 2021. The scenario feels good too (At least in value) To gold, one of the most consolidated shelter assets: yesterday the precious metal reached $ 3,430 per ounce. Only so far this year has shot above 27%. Click on the image to go to Tweet. The situation of the euro. With that backdrop there are analysts who They are already highlighting the pronounced ascending curve that records the euro in front of the green ticket so far from 2025. of the minimum change of 1,024 Dollar registered in early January has passed to 1,476. And with a graph clearly up. After the latest advances of the euro against the dollar and its reinforcement against the US currency, so far from 2025 the European currency has risen 11.3%. The balance is also positive for the pound (6.8%), the Swedish crown (16.5%), the Swiss Franco (12.3%) and the Yen (11.7%), which They overcome the advance of the European currency. The criticism of the Fed and Powell. When analyzing drifting the dollar Analysts usually point out various factorssuch as the crisis of trust in the green ticket, a loss of attractiveness in a scenario marked by Trump’s protectionist policies or changes in the global economic order and US debt. After the last fall, another added key indicates: the criticism From the White House to the Federal Reserve (Fed) and its responsible, Powell, reluctant to lower interest rates. Trump’s threats affect the image of the body, which can also influence the value of the dollar or the confidence in the stability of US markets. “Trump’s renewed criticism of the FED president this week is a reminder that commercial policy is not the only channel through which the unconventional approach to the administration could undermine the dollar and the US assets markets,” warns in CNN Jonas Goltermann, senior economist of markets at the capital firm Economics. Why is it important? For several reasons. First because the dollar is more than the currency with which the Americans pay their purchases. Throughout the last 80 years it has been the Vault key of the global financial system, acts from reference and its position against other currencies has influenced the US economy. He did it then. And it will probably do it now too. There are analysts who They point that Trump seeks to weaken the dollar to favor US exports (one of its declared objectives is to reindustrialize the country) and balance its balance and commercial deficit, something that tariffs would also help. The depreciation strategy of the green ticket would also lead to threats, however, such as problems to face debt in the United States. Images | Gage Skidmore (Flickr) and Stock Birken (UNPLASH) In Xataka | There is something more disturbing than the collapse of the bag: the collapse of the shelter values ​​such as the US dollar and debt

Costco turns ten in Spain. Has not yet won a single euro

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Costco has completed a decade of operations in Spain without having declared benefits, and therefore, without having paid a single euro in companies, according to its annual accounts and what was published by Digital economy. The figure. 143 million euros. This is the accumulated amount of losses that the Spanish subsidiary of Costco has declared between 2014 and 2023. However, its sales have multiplied by five since 2017, reaching 544 million euros in 2023. It has also increased its physical presence with five new hypermarkets, plus two others under construction. It has expanded its partner base to 650,000 (24% more than the previous year). Employ 1,256 people in Spain. It is building A logistics center in Guadalajara where he has invested more than 50 million. Why is it important. This case is an example of a common strategy among multinationals: artificially maintain red numbers in specific markets to avoid local taxation, while their operations and market presence increase. The company itself acknowledges in its accounts that “it has not had to satisfy any amount for societies tax in Spain”, adding that its greatest contribution has been “the generation of local wealth.” The money trail. Costco does not publicly detail which mechanisms to maintain constant losses despite its growth, but the usual strategies include: Loans between subsidiaries with high interest. Canons for the use of brand, technology or know-how. Transfer prices in purchases to other subsidiaries. Strategic Business Costs. The trend. The US matrix continues with its expansion in Spain, despite losses. The group has reduced its red numbers up to 7.7 million in 2023 (its best historical result), and the company projects that will continue with losses “until it reaches a market penetration and sales level”. Said in Román Paladino: until it has grown enough. The general panoramic. This strategy is not exclusive to Costco. Large multinationals such as Amazon, Starbucks or Ikea have resorted to different fiscal engineering mechanisms To reduce their taxation in the countries where they operate, within legality but they are not some controversy. Meanwhile, the Spanish client seems oblivious to these fiscal ins and outs: the 650,000 members who pay their annual fee to access the costco prices continue to increase, a sign that their model works independently of the declared red figures. Outstanding image | Costco In Xataka | Themu seemed unstoppable. His latest results begin to question his model

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