(Reuters) - British recruitment firm PageGroup Plc said on Wednesday David Lowden will step down as chair to be the chair-designate at technical products and services provider Diploma Plc.
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Factory output and retail sales in China edged up in July but were weaker than analysts' expectations, official data showed Monday, as a Covid-19 resurgence and property market jitters cast a pall over hopes for a stronger economic recovery.
An instant investment profit of close to 250pc sounds fantastical — impossible, even. But in the sleek world of luxury watches, those who manage to get their hands on brand new rare timepieces can sell them on for a fortune.
Salespeople, food servers, postal workers -- "Help Wanted" ads are proliferating across the United States, as companies struggle to deal with a worker shortage caused by the pandemic, a rash of early retirements and restrictive immigration laws.
In the current jobs market, workers have the upper hand. With record numbers of vacancies, would-be employees can demand higher pay and more perks.
The Government will not use July’s retail price index to calculate how much to raise rail fares in 2023.
Matt and his boyfriend have spent hours on the train to London from Coventry over the past few weekends – all in the hope of getting a monkeypox vaccine.
Saudi Aramco has announced the biggest quarterly profit of any public company in history thanks to surging oil prices and demand.
Money comparison platforms could see a boom in activity, according to the boss of the accommodation search website.
Iran's leading automaker is seeking to prioritise exports to Russia, its CEO said Sunday, as both countries reel under Western economic sanctions.
The price of wine will surge 10pc this year as scorching temperatures hammer harvests at vineyards across Europe, the owner of Laithwaites has warned.
German finance minister Christian Lindner has written to the European Commission seeking permission to waive value-added tax on a new gas price levy for a limited period of time, a copy of his letter seen by Reuters showed on Sunday. Germany's gas market operator is set to announce on Monday the size of the levy, which Berlin is imposing on all gas consumers to spread the additional cost of gas imports. The levy is aimed at helping Uniper and other importers cope with soaring prices due to reduced Russian export flows, but it would add to already sky-high energy prices and inflationary pressures for customers.
The automated Phalanx CIWS cannons aboard Britain's aircraft carriers are a final line of defence against attack, capable of filling the sky with 4,500 armour-piercing rounds a minute to defeat incoming missiles. Find a way to dodge them, and the HMS Queen Elizabeth is little more than a floating 65,000-tonne target.
Christian Wade, 31, is a professional rugby union player turned American footballer who was a winger for the Premiership side Wasps; he scored 82 tries in 165 appearances between 2011 and 2018.
The RBA is looking into the idea of a central bank digital currency as cryptocurrencies continue to gain popularity
Firms are able to challenge the valuation of their properties that is used to calculate how much they owe the local council in tax.
Flouting the hosepipe bans that are sweeping the country comes with a hefty financial penalty of up to £1,000 – except it seems nobody has ever actually had to pay it.
Chris O’Shea and Kwasi Kwarteng met in Number 11 Downing Street last week in the teeth of a crisis. Summoned to crisis talks on energy bills, the boss of British Gas owner Centrica and the Business Secretary sat through a “chaotic” meeting with the Chancellor and the Prime Minister, which ended in a press release and little else.
Some new sellers are pricing competitively in an attempt to move home before Christmas, agents report.
James Reed, chairman of Reed.co.uk, said the ability to negotiate a salary increase is an essential skill.
Germany should not tax "excessive" company profits earned amid an economic and energy crisis as that would interfere with market forces, the finance minister said in an interview on Sunday when asked about the windfall levies imposed elsewhere in Europe. "To me, much and possibly everything speaks against a possible excessive profit tax when I think about it closely," minister Christian Lindner of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) told public broadcaster ZDF. Britain introduced a 25% windfall tax on oil and gas producers' profits in May to help fund support for households.
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