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16 FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2019<br />
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ALICANTE’S El Altet airport<br />
increased passenger<br />
numbers by 8% in August<br />
compared to the same period<br />
in 2018, according to<br />
the latest figures released<br />
by operator AENA.<br />
August is regarded as the<br />
most important month for the<br />
airport with both domestic<br />
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and foreign tourists coming<br />
down to this part of the world<br />
for their summer holidays.<br />
2019 as a whole has also<br />
seen an 8% increase and is<br />
well on track to break the<br />
year end passenger numbers<br />
record. Last month saw<br />
1,522,017 people flying to and<br />
from <strong>Alicante</strong> from abroad and<br />
168,899 from within Spain.<br />
As usual the UK had easily<br />
the highest numbers of<br />
foreign travellers, around<br />
40% of the total.<br />
This was followed by<br />
Germany, the Netherlands,<br />
Belgium, Norway and France.<br />
UK school firm<br />
investing locally<br />
COGNITA, a UK company<br />
which runs schools all over<br />
the world, is investing an extra<br />
million euros in Valencia.<br />
They have joined the organisation<br />
running the<br />
existing British School of<br />
Valencia (BSV) and are investing<br />
the extra cash in the<br />
Avenida de Paris centre to<br />
expand it by 20%.<br />
This will include seven new<br />
classes, a science laboratory,<br />
art room and library. BSV is<br />
a private school offering British<br />
education to pupils of all<br />
nationalities.<br />
As well as the UK and<br />
Spain, Cognita runs schools in<br />
countries such as Singapore,<br />
China and Switzerland.<br />
Fears of global<br />
slump grow<br />
THE US Federal Reserve<br />
has cut interest rates this<br />
week, prompting fears<br />
that they are anticipating<br />
an economic slowdown or<br />
even recession.<br />
They were cut from 2% to<br />
1.75%, saying this was due<br />
to a weakening of the domestic<br />
economy.<br />
Fed Chairman Jerome<br />
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Powell took a swing at President<br />
Trump, blaming this on<br />
“trade policy”, almost certainly<br />
a reference to Trump’s<br />
tariff war with China.<br />
Trump in turn tweeted<br />
that Mr Powell was “a terrible<br />
communicator and had<br />
no guts” and he should have<br />
cut the rate further.<br />
Lower rates make borrowing<br />
cheaper, fuelling<br />
economic activity, in theory<br />
at least. Any US financial<br />
crisis or even blip is likely<br />
to have a major knock on<br />
elsewhere, with the last<br />
full blown crisis being triggered<br />
by American banking<br />
problems.<br />
Federal Reserve chairman Powell makes the announcement this week