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Bloomberg UK wages rose quicker than expected at the end of 2022, heaping pressure on the Bank of England to deliver another interest-rate increase next month. Average earnings excluding bonuses were 6.7% higher in the three months through December from the previous year, the Office for National Statistics said Tuesday. That’s the fastest pace since records began in 2001, excluding ...

Bloomberg The economy lost nearly 2.5 million working days to strikes last year as Britain suffered its most severe industrial action since Margaret Thatcher was in power. The Office for National Statistics said Tuesday that 843,000 working days were lost due to labor disputes in December, making it the worst month in more than a decade. That took the total ...

Bloomberg Employment in Scotland hit a record high at the end of 2022 as tightness in the labor market spread to all corners of the UK. The portion of adults who have a job climbed to 76.6% in the three months ending December, up 2.4 percentage points from a year earlier. The figures from the Office for National Statistics on ...

  Bloomberg Norma Group SE, a German maker of hose clamps and pipe connections for everything from cars to washing machines, rejected several takeover approaches in recent months from bidders including Carlyle Group Inc., people familiar with the matter said. The company explored a potential sale with advisers toward the end of 2022, according to the people, who asked not ...

  Bloomberg Soaring inflation, higher interest rates and supply-chain snarls spurred by the war in Ukraine pushed most of the European Union’s biggest eastern economies into contraction in the fourth quarter. Poland’s economy shrank 2.4% from the previous three months — much worse than the 0.5% forecast in a Bloomberg survey — for its second non-consecutive decline last year. It ...

Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp unveiled several changes to its senior management as Koji Sato prepares to take over as chief executive officer, seeking to improve the carmaker’s strategy and messaging in the shift to an electric future and to take on Tesla Inc. Hiroki Nakajima becomes chief technology officer and Yoichi Miyazaki will be chief financial officer from April 1, ...

  Bloomberg Singapore will be looking to win its “fair share” of investments in semiconductor assembly and integrated circuit design, a top official said, amid a growing geopolitical divide between the US and China over trade and technology. The city-state will be focussing on the semiconductor value chain of activities, Beh Swan Gin, chairman of Singapore’s Economic Development Board, said ...

  Bloomberg China’s weekly Covid deaths in hospitals slumped to less than 1,000 as the record wave of infections that rippled through the country following the abandonment of Covid Zero abates. There were 912 fatalities linked to Covid at hospitals between February 3 and February 9, down from 3,278 a week earlier, according to a report from the Chinese Center ...

Bloomberg Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co unveiled their first joint project since announcing a revamp of their carmaking alliance last week. The pair will invest $600 million in India to expand their car lineup, add jobs and decarbonise a manufacturing plant in Chennai, the companies said in a joint statement. The initiative is a key element of the operational ...

  Bloomberg India’s inflation accelerated in January, breaching the top-end of the central bank’s target for the first time in three months and validating the concern of monetary authorities that price pressures are persistent and must be contained. The consumer price index rose 6.52% from a year earlier, according to data released by the Statistics Ministry on Monday. That compares ...