Jianmin Group said 1H revenue was 1.611 bln yuan, down 10.72% YoY; net profit attributable to shareholders was 177 mln yuan, down 19.68% YoY.

Manufacturers in Venezuela were without power for nearly half of working hours in Q2, the country’s largest industrial group, the Industrial Federation, said in a Tuesday survey. Firms averaged 488 working hours in the quarter, of which 214 hours lacked electricity, and reported 57 unplanned outages on average—about five per week—an 18% increase from Q1. The federation said years of underinvestment and poor maintenance in the power sector, compounded by U.S. sanctions, are constraining the industrial sector and hampering the economic recovery.

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