Category: toll
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Most UK businesses to ‘rethink their plans’ as tax rise takes toll
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British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has warned that 8 out of 10 companies in the United Kingdom will be forced to review their future strategies when the proposed increase in national insurance contributions to employers enter, making a “cost -cost barrel” for companies. In a recent poll, 82 percent of…
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UK workforce set to hit record low as sickness surge takes toll on jobs market
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Britain’s workforce will fall to a record low, as growing numbers of people who cannot work well will weaken the economy’s future prospects, according to the tax and spending watchdog. New projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) suggest that the proportion of over-16s either in work or looking…
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China Industrial Profits Extend Drop as Deflation Takes Toll
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(Bloomberg) — Profits at Chinese industrial companies fell faster in September than the previous month, as deflationary pressures sapped the strength of companies’ finances. Most read from Bloomberg Industrial profits last month at major Chinese companies fell 27.1% from a year earlier, after a 17.8% decline in August, the National…
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US southeast faces daunting task cleaning up from Helene; death toll rises By Reuters
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Written by Rich McKay, Joseph Ax, and Andrew Hay ATLANTA (Reuters) – Authorities across a wide swath of the southeastern United States on Saturday faced the daunting task of clearing the area of Hurricane Helen, one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the country, as the death toll continued…
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US southeast faces daunting task cleaning up from Helene; death toll rises By Reuters
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Written by Rich McKay, Joseph Ax, and Andrew Hay ATLANTA (Reuters) – Authorities across a wide swath of the southeastern United States on Saturday faced the daunting task of clearing the area of Hurricane Helen, one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the country, as the death toll continued…
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Vietnam’s death toll from Typhoon Yagi rises to 24, govt says By Reuters
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HANOI (Reuters) – Typhoon Yagi and its resulting landslides and floods killed at least 24 people and injured 299 in northern Vietnam over the weekend, the government said, as authorities warned on Monday of more flooding. The typhoon, the strongest storm to hit Asia this year, made landfall on the…
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Slice pensions affair takes toll on savers
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NIS 4.3 billion – it is difficult to think about, especially when it comes to the pensions and savings of 105,000 people accumulated over many years. Their access to funds has now been completely blocked, and for thousands of them it is not at all clear whether they will ever…
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Kenyan investors to partly fund Sh472bn US backed toll road
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Local private investors will be given the opportunity to co-finance the $3.6 billion (Sh472.9 billion) highway from Mombasa to Nairobi after the Kenya National Highways Authority (Kenha) and US-based private equity firm Everstrong Capital LLC signed a deal to establish the start-up. In construction of toll road. The construction of…