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Finland spends most on housing of all OECD countries

Finland spends 24% of its total expenditure on housing, followed closely by the UK, according to new data published by British thinktank the Resolution Foundation – higher than the EU average of 15%. ADVERTISEMENT The data combined the cost of actual rents paid with an estimate of the cost of housing owners would pay if

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upi payments: NPCI eyes big-size spends on RuPay UPI credit cards

With RuPay credit cards enabled on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) wants larger-ticket merchant payments also to move to its retail payment network. Currently users split bills, pay their local vendors, taxi rides and retailers through UPI, the most popular smartphone-based payments mode in the country. Elevate Your Tech Prowess

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ZEEL spends ₹176 cr on merger-related expenses

Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL), which has signed an agreement to merge its operations with Culver Max Entertainment (Sony Pictures Networks India), has spent Rs 176.2 crore on merger-related expenses in FY23, the company’s regulatory filings show. In the previous fiscal year, merger-related expenses stood at Rs 7.3 crore. The two companies had signed definitive agreements

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Noticias de dinero

Budget gap widens as govt spends

THE national government’s (NG) budget deficit rose in September from a year earlier as spending increased and revenues fell, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) reported on Wednesday. The shortfall grew by 39.60 percent to P250.9 billion, P71.2 billion higher than the year-earlier P179.8 billion. Bureau of the Treasury “The fiscal outturn was underpinned by

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Oracle spends more than $100 million on Ampere chips

Oracle Corp agreed to prepay $104.1 million for processor chips made by startup Ampere Computing, according to Oracle’s proxy statement filed on Friday. Oracle also invested $400 million in Ampere through a convertible note in its fiscal 2023, the proxy said. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill Courses Offering College Course Website Northwestern University

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‘This is my world!’: Former Austrian FM spends holiday in Russia

Kneissl was Austrian FM during a time when Austria grew dangerously close to Russia. She is now vacationing in the Russian village of Petrushovo and lecturing at a Russian political center. Several Russian websites have circulated a video of former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, wearing a flowing blue skirt and belted white shirt, extolling

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Japanese man spends $22,000 to become a border collie dog

A Japanese man who spent more than $20,000 to become a dog has finally taken his first walk and immediately made some canine friends. Known only as Toco, the man spent two million Yen (A$22,000) on a hyperrealistic border collie costume to fulfil his lifelong dream of “becoming an animal”. In recent updates shared with

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