October 2, 2023
Receive free UK inflation updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK inflation news every morning. What does the current inflationary upsurge tell us about prospects for inflation in the long run? My focus here will be on the UK. But the broad lesson may be relevant elsewhere: it
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HONG KONG: Most Asian markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday as a drop in oil prices and US Treasury yields provided some much-needed respite from speculation the Federal Reserve (Fed) will push interest rates even higher. Data showing a smaller-than-expected rise in personal consumption and a still-healthy US economy injected a little optimism at
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The COVID-19 pandemic hurt the U.S. economy in a lot of ways. It choked global supply chains, sent consumer prices soaring and briefly knocked millions of people out of work. But it might have also broken America out of a decadeslong entrepreneurial slump. New research from economists at the University of Maryland and the Federal
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Orders for US-produced manufactured goods rose slightly in August on an uptick in machinery orders, beating expectations after a steep decline in July. New orders for durable goods rose 0.2 percent in August from a month earlier to $284.7 billion, according to revised Commerce Department data. This was sharply above the median forecast
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The Balkan nation has recorded the jump nine months after it joined the Schengen area, the world’s largest visa-free zone. ADVERTISEMENT Croatia has recorded a 140% year-on-year increase in illegal immigration, according to new figures released by authorities. On Thursday, Border Police Chief Zoran Niceno announced that the sharp rise has seen more than 54,500
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A deadly mosquito-borne disease that kills about one in five of those who catch it is rising across Australia. State health agencies from Queensland to Western Australia have recorded a troubling uptick in Murray River encephalitis cases, a rare but dangerous illness that can kill or lead to permanent neurological damage such as paralysis and
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Beckett Fowler reunited with his three siblings after spending six months in the hospital for cancer chemotherapy. (SWNS) EMOTIONAL REUNION – Siblings see their brother for the first time after his 6-month hospital stay amid his cancer battle. Continue reading… CHECKED OUT – A new report points to a lack of engagement and burnout among nurses. Continue
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Kosovo show weapons seized after recent siege Kosovo called on Serbia on Monday (September 25) to hand over all those involved in a shootout between Kosovar police and ethnic Serb gunmen that killed four people in the restive north of the country. (Reuters) Terror gripped a small village in northern Kosovo last Sunday, sparking renewed
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A big obstacle, though, continues to be resistance to vaccination among nurses and aides. Like many facility owners, Avalon Health Care Group, which owns or operates more than a dozen nursing homes in western states, is not mandating staff be vaccinated. Dr. Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, Avalon’s chief medical officer, says she tries to address the
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The television series The Six Million Dollar Man follows the adventures of Steve Austin, a former pilot rebuilt from a crash using futuristic, high-tech “bionic parts and implants.” Neither of us is an undercover agent, but we can see and read without cheaters, use formerly injured shoulders, and walk using knees and feet whose natural
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