At the heart of the Sweden's economic and social crisis is a broken housing market
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IKEA is using more wood from Sweden and the Baltics to make up for not sourcing it from Russia and Belarus, which the company has shunned due to Moscow's war in Ukraine
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Spotify said Monday that it will cut 6% of its workforce to reduce costs – CEO Daniel Ek took full responsibility for the job cuts, which he called “difficult but necessary”
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Shared micromobility company Bird said it will fully exit Germany, Sweden and Norway – winding down operations in several dozen small to mid-sized markets
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Klarna has revealed that losses more than tripled in the first half of the year – firm has been hit by a slowdown in consumer spending
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When it comes to flaunting its defense industry, Stockholm is shy – and it's hurting Swedish companies and handing lucrative contracts to competitors
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Klarna has seen its value slashed by 85% to less than $7bn in its latest round of fundraising
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Scandinavian airline SAS announced that it has gone bankrupt a day after 1,000 pilots walked out on strike
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Inflation in Sweden increased last month to its highest level since 1991, as countries worldwide grapple with surging prices exacerbated by Russia's war in Ukraine
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'Green steel' heating up in Sweden's frozen north – HYBRIT is a joint venture between SSAB, mining company LKAB and Swedish state-owned power firm Vattenfall
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Leaked files show how telecoms giant Ericsson allegedly helped bribe Islamic State to allow its products to be transported across parts of Iraq that were held by the terrorists
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The economics of Spotify
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Sweden has earmarked $661 million for a temporary scheme to help the most affected households cope with high electricity bills this winter
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Streaming company Storytel has signed a deal to acquire Audiobooks.com from owner KKR for $135m, extending its reach into the English language audio market
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IKEA furniture and homeware prices are to rise as a result of lasting disruption to its supply chain – increased cost of raw materials knocked its full-year profits
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Swedish green steel venture HYBRIT has made the world's first customer delivery of steel, produced without using coal, to Volvo
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Alt-milk maker Oatly loses trademark case against family-run UK firm – Swedish company took legal action against Cambridgeshire-based Glebe Farm Foods over oat drink
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Shares in alt-milk maker Oatly surge on US stock market debut – Swedish firm valued at $13bn as investors bet on soaring demand
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Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt gets $14 billion order as Volkswagen raises ownership
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Volvo Cars to go fully electric by 2030 – it will phase out all car models with internal combustion engines, including hybrids
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Oatly, the plant-based milk company started in Sweden, is planning a stock exchange listing in the United States
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Furniture giant IKEA is planning to sell spare parts for its furniture – its aim is to prolong the life of its products and dispel the idea that it makes disposable goods
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Sweden has shut down one of four nuclear reactors at its largest power station after over forty years of operation, with operators citing a lack of profitability
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Denmark has lashed out against the EU's plan to establish a minimum wage, arguing it would undermine a national labor-market model that's popular with unions and employers
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IKEA's shopping malls arm Ingka Centres plans US entry in major play
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Foreign nationals getting Corona payment from the US state
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Norwegian Air reported that four Swedish and Danish subsidiaries had filed for bankruptcy – 4,700 pilots and cabin crew members would be affected
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Sweden's cashless society dream isn't all it's cracked up to be – as debates rage along lines of age, wealth and location, the country is looking to create a digital currency
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Sweden's financial watchdog hit lender Swedbank with a record fine for serious deficiencies in its management of money laundering risks in its Baltic operations
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If the female employment rate across the OECD matched that of Sweden, OECD GDP could be boosted by over US$6 trillion, according to PwC's latest Women in Work Index
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Why Sweden's negative interest rate experiment is a failure
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Ant Financial, the payment affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has invested in Swedish financial technology start-up Klarna
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SSAB has teamed up with Vattenfall and LKAB to build a pilot plant for the world's first fossil fuel free steel-making process
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Sweden starts testing new official digital currency – pilot project will be run in an isolated test environment together with digital tech consultants Accenture
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Now that Sweden has called a halt to its five-year trial with negative interest rates the serious work has begun on looking at whether it worked
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Swedish automaker Volvo Cars and its owner Chinese automaker Geely Holding are considering a merger deal
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Why Swexit is unthinkable – trade ties make Sweden's European Union departure unthinkable
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Climate change activist Greta Thunberg says she is trademarking her name and the #FridaysForFuture movement to stop people from impersonating her
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Megadrill to build power highway below Stockholm's landmarks – Sweden's growing capital needs more electricity for homes and new industries
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How IKEA became Sweden's national brand
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The economy of Sweden
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Sweden in global spotlight with interest rate move – Riksbank has ended a period of negative rates but will other central banks around the world now follow suit?
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China has called off two business delegation visits to Sweden after Stockholm presented a rights prize to dissident Gui Minhai
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Sweden's central bank has tapped Accenture to develop its e-krona digital currency pilot project
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Sweden's telecoms giant Ericsson has agreed to pay more than $1bn to resolve allegations of bribery, the US Department of Justice has announced
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IKEA's profits have fallen nearly 10% as the world's largest furniture retailer stepped up its spending on renewable energy and its growing online operation
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Sweden's central bank sells off bonds from Canadian province of Alberta and parts of Australia over climate concerns
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H&M is the latest fashion brand to test out the concept of clothing rental
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Sweden central bank governor Stefan Ingves calls Facebook's Libra a 'catalytic event'
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The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer
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