Oil prices set for weekly fall on stockpile releases
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil prices were stable on Friday in choppy trading but remained on course for a second ..
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Explainer-Clock ticks down towards a Russian default
LONDON (Reuters) – Russia could face its first sovereign external default in over a century after it made arrangements to make a..
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SMEs shelve recruitment as they cope with cost crisis
Overall, 26% of SMEs said they were putting off planned recruitment due to inflationary pressures. The figure increases depending on t..
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U.S. Congress votes to strip Russia of ‘most favored’ trade status, ban its oil
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress voted to impose further economic pain on Russia over the invasion ..
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U.S. and NATO allies pledge more arms to Ukraine
By Daphne Psaledakis and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The United States will send new weapon systems to Ukraine, Washington’..
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Dollar slides from near two-year high amid hawkish signals from Fed
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Tommy Wilkes NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar slipped from a near two-year high on Thursda..
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Amazon faces shareholder vote on treatment of warehouse workers
By Simon Jessop and Ross Kerber LONDON (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc., the world’s biggest retailer, will face a shareholder ..
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Defiance, tears, trepidation: Ukraine’s capital awakens after Russian troops withdraw
By Elizabeth Piper and Stefaniia Bern KYIV (Reuters) – Laden with bags, trolleys and the odd pet, Ukrainians are returning to th..
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UK finance regulators should pay heed to energy security policy, says Sunak
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday called on the country’s financial..
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The “New” Employee Engagement
No doubt, the pandemic took its toll on employee engagement programs, as organizations have struggled just to keep their people workin..
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Attendance bonuses actually increase employee absence, finds new research
Offering employees a monetary bonus for good attendance actually has the opposite desired effect, increasing employee absence, finds n..
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Eastern Ukraine town empties as residents fear new Russian assault
By Vitalii Hnidyi DERHACHI, Ukraine (Reuters) – Dragging trolleys and clutching plastic bags with their meagre belongings, resid..
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No poop for you: Manure supplies run short as fertilizer prices soar
By P.J. Huffstutter, Tom Polansek and Bianca Flowers CHICAGO (Reuters) – For nearly two decades, Abe Sandquist has used every ma..
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U.S. charges Russian oligarch with violating sanctions, disrupts botnet
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has charged Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev with viol..
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Neo clears $3 billion through its multi-currency accounts as treasurers seek alternative to high bank fees
Barcelona and London: 29 March 2022 – Neo, the treasury management, payments and FX fintech, has cleared $3 billion through its multi-..
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Laiye eliminates Intelligent Automation risks with first-of-its-kind business results guarantee
Intelligent Automation leader backs its global expansion with a 100% money-back guarantee LONDON, April 5, 2022 – Global..
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Three quarters of IT employers claim their company has a digital skills gap
Survey from The Open University also revealed that 69% of employers are struggling to recruit staff with adequate digital skil..
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How Irish businesses are tackling the rising cost of energy
Paying utility bills is one of the unavoidable parts of running a business. But with EU leaders struggling to agree on ho..
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Cryptoverse: NFT bubble gets that shrinking feeling
By Elizabeth Howcroft (Reuters) – The NFT bubble isn’t popping, but it may have sprung a leak. A year on from when a singl..
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Guidant Global’s Stephen Salmon becomes a Guinness World Records holder
Guidant Global are delighted to announce that Stephen Salmon, a Senior Marketing Executive in the company’s Centre of Excellenc..
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Starbucks’ Schultz announces halt to stock buybacks, shares fall
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) -Starbucks Corp will pause billions of dollars of stock buybacks, longtime former chief executive Ho..
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U.S. yield curve inverts after strong jobs data; world shares mixed
By Koh Gui Qing NEW YORK (Reuters) – Government bond yields resumed their upward climb on Friday on signs of persistent prices p..
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World shares rise, U.S. yield curve inverts after strong jobs data
By Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) – World shares bounced and government bond yields resumed their upward climb on Friday on signs..
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Climate activists plan daily protests after blocking 10 UK oil terminals
By Andrew MacAskill and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Hundreds of climate change protesters blocked oil terminals across Britain on Frida..
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Offering bonuses demotivates highly driven auditors
Audit bonuses can improve the work of auditors with little self-motivation, but damage the performance of highly driven auditors, rese..
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Food stamp recipients are the new frontier for Target.com
By Arriana McLymore and Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK (Reuters) – Target Corp is preparing to let shoppers use food stamps to pay fo..
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Russia sets deadline for rouble gas payments, Europe calls it ‘blackmail’
By Joseph Nasr and Mark Trevelyan BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding foreign buyers pay for..
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Shanghai expands COVID lockdown as new daily cases surge by a third
By Brenda Goh and Roxanne Liu SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Authorities began locking down some western areas of Shanghai two days ahead of sche..
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Russians bombard cities as losses force them back
By Natalia Zinets and Gleb Garanich LVIV, Ukraine/KYIV OUTSKIRTS (Reuters) – Russian forces bombarded a besieged city in norther..
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Russia promises to scale back Ukraine war but West sceptical
By Jonathan Spicer and Gleb Garanich ISTANBUL/KYIV OUTSKIRTS/MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russia promised on Tuesday to scale d..
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Russia promises to scale down operations in northern Ukraine
By Jonathan Spicer and Gleb Garanich ISTANBUL/KYIV OUTSKIRTS/MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russia promised at peace talks on Tue..
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56% OF BRITS ADMIT TO CLUTTER CHAOS
– 56% of UK adults have rooms in their homes that are unusable because of clutter. – The spare bedroom (30%) is the..
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UK’s Sunak, under fire over cost of living, defends his tax cut plans
LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rishi Sunak on Monday defended the tax cuts he announced last week, after they were widely ..
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World’s first dairy certified to NSF Global Animal Wellness Standard
GAWS establishes practices for management systems to help ensure animal welfare, health, feed, housing, and husbandry is the first of ..
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EU leaders struggle for deal on energy crunch fix
By Sabine Siebold and John Irish BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union leaders struggled on Friday to agree on steps to ease the energy m..
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Commodities trading houses help keep Russian oil flowing
By Julia Payne LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) – Commodities traders such as Trafigura and Vitol have helped keep Russia’s..
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The growing threat of cyber warfare: a straightforward guide to protecting your business
Worried about cyber warfare? You’re not alone. With the threat of imminent attack from overseas malware and state-sponsored hacks incr..
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