BBCNEWS Talking Business June 4, 2024 00:34:00
When the time comes. it's already not bad and we hope prices won't go up more in the future. and these higher prices, we have already seen, mean the big energy companies are amongst the few winners from this crisis. in the first half of this year, five of the biggest western firms made a combined profit of more than $95 billion. that is almost three times what they made the same time last year. given that nearly $514 billion of support for struggling businesses and households has been committed to by the governments of the eu and the uk, it's little wonder they are looking to get hold of some ...