Morning News: Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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• Renáta Kellnerová, widow of the late billionaire Petr Kellner, who died in a plane crash in the U.S. last year, has topped the list of the richest Czechs and Slovaks for the second year in a row in a ranking compiled by Czech publication Euro Weekly that was released on Monday.

 

• Confidence in the Czech economy is at an all-time low, according to data published on Monday by the Czech Statistical Office. It continued to decline in September, falling by four points month-on-month to 90.1.

 

• Shopping malls across the country had record sales in the second quarter of this year, which were 17.3 percent higher than pre-2019.  Year-to-date footfall through August was 11.8 percent lower than three years ago.