October 27, 2022

THE MINISTRY FOR FINANCE AND EMPLOYMENT: Results and allotment of the Malta Government Stock Issuance – October 2022

Fixed Rate Malta Government Stock   The Treasury announces the result and allocation of the issuance of the Malta Government Stock of October 2022.   By closing date at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday 12th October 2022, the Treasury received 10,458 applications from retail investors having a total nominal value of €293.14 million. The authorised sum on issue was €200 million, subject to an over-allotment option of an additional amount up to €100 million.   As announced in the Press Release PR221374 issued by the Ministry for Finance and Employment on the 12th October 2022, the Treasury exercised the over-allotment option such

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Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Acquisition of Twitter

Elon Musk became Twitter Inc’s new owner on Thursday, firing top executives he had accused of misleading him and providing little clarity over how he will achieve the lofty ambitions he has outlined for the influential social media platform. The CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc TSLA.O has said he wants to “defeat” spam bots on Twitter, make the algorithms that determine how content is presented to its users publicly available, and prevent the platform from becoming an echo chamber for hate and division, even as he limits censorship. Yet Musk has not offered details on how he will

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MSF Warns of Measles, Cholera Outbreaks at Kenya Refugee Complex

  The charity Doctors Without Borders said Thursday that Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Complex faces a high risk of measles and cholera outbreaks as thousands of new refugees arrive from areas of Somalia where the diseases are circulating. More than 233,000 refugees live in three overcrowded camps in the complex. Doctors Without Borders, best known by its French acronym MSF, reported a sharp rise since January in the number of people fleeing to Kenya to escape drought, hunger and violence. Many of the new arrivals are from southern Somalia, where measles and cholera outbreaks recently have occurred, the charity said. MSF’s

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