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CEZ Group’s net income increased by 13% year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2017, according to figures just published by the company.

A spike in the price of butter in recent months led to panic-buying and even saw the PM involved. But prices shouldn’t rise again before Christmas.

The Czech National Bank’s move Thursday to raise its key two week repo rates by 0.25 percentage points to 0.5 percent was hardly a surprise and the Czech crown strengthened little as a result. Previous evidence had shown that central bank members had already been on the verge of raising rates at the previous session.

Czech women with university education have 29 percent lower salaries on average than their male colleagues, which means some 15,000 crowns less monthly, according to a study commissioned by the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry and presented on Wednesday.

The Czech Republic’s manufacturing sector shows the most significant growth in more than six years, according to a report by IHS Markit released on Wednesday.

Interest in German foods is on the rise after reports products sold in the Czech Republic and other ex-communist states are of relatively low quality.

The first Czech online book library offering e-books of long published and new volumes has started up.

The ride-sharing service Uber is back on the road in Brno after the Supreme Court in Olomouc temporarily overturned a ban on its services in the Czech Republic’s second largest city. This is the second time that such a ban has been invalidated by a higher instance court in a protracted battle between Brno’s taxi drivers and Uber.

A survey by the international and auditing company, BDO, has ranked the Czech Republic in 23rd place overall in its global evaluation of business locations for 2017. That represents a jump of three places on its ranking in 2016.

The head of Australian-based mining company, European Metals Holdings (EMH) has re-stated its intent to push ahead and exploit some of Europe’s biggest known lithium reserves sited in the Czech Republic.