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Germany faces $85bn hit as labour shortages intensify

  Bloomberg As Germany grapples with an energy crisis threatening its future as an industrial leader, an acute shortage of workers is compounding problems for manufacturers already struggling to stay competitive. The lack of qualified labour — brought on by an aging population and exacerbated by the pandemic — is starving manufacturers from Airbus SE to BMW AG to BASF ...

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Double-digit inflation all set to return in UK

  Bloomberg Double-digit inflation is set to return in the UK and linger through the end of this year despite the government’s effort to cap energy bills, a survey of economists shows. The findings gathered by Bloomberg also suggest the economy is now in a recession that will last until the second half of 2023 and that the Bank of ...

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Canada adds 21,000 jobs in tight market

  Bloomberg Canadian employment grew in September for the first time in four months, but gains remained moderate in a sign the labour market continues to be near full capacity. The country added just over 21,000 jobs last month, with small gains in both full-time and part-time work, Statistics Canada reported in Ottawa. That’s in line with the median estimate ...

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Intel plans thousands of job cuts

  Bloomberg Intel Corp. is planning a major reduction in headcount, likely numbering in the thousands, to cut costs and cope with a sputtering personal-computer market. The layoffs will be announced as early as this month, with the company planning to make the move around the same time as its third-quarter earnings report, said the people, who asked not to ...

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Pound and UK bonds rally; stocks, futures advance

Bloomberg The pound rallied and UK bonds surged as more of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s package of unfunded tax cuts were reversed. Stocks rise, with investors preparing for a number of key earnings reports this week. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the UK will raise £32 billion ($36.15 billion) with new measures, scrapping plans to cut income tax and dropping a ...

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China seeks to boost stock market as Xi speech disappoints

  Bloomberg Chinese regulators are ramping up efforts to support the stock market, which saw little reprieve from President Xi Jinping’s speech amid continued pressure from geopolitical tensions and the Covid Zero policy. A series of market-supporting measures are in the pipeline, including proposals to encourage companies to buy back shares and to ease curbs on short-term transactions by overseas ...

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Dewa gets Guinness World Record for its plant again

Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has marked another breakthrough by achieving the Guinness World Records title for the second time for owning and managing the Largest Single-Site Water Desalination Facility in the World with production capacity of 490 million Imperial Gallons of water per Day, which is equivalent to 2,227,587 cubic metres per day. This is ...

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