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...paused plans to buy tens of thousands of battery-driven cars from Polestar this year, the head of the electric vehicle brand said, after a collapse in resale values last year caused the rental giant to taper...
...by Goldman Sachs suggests that, for the top four EU economies — Germany, France, Italy and Spain — the impact on output of recovery grants is in the range of decimals, and will turn negative as the fund tapers...
...The furlough scheme was extended from an original deadline of April 30 after the lockdown continued into the summer, but will taper down from next month despite a further four-week delay to full reopening...
...The coronavirus job retention scheme, which has provided £64bn to 1.3m employers, starts to taper from next week, when employers will need to pay 10 per cent of furloughed staff’s wages....
...Thomas said: “Like a lot of our stocks, Shopify performed strongly in 2020, and then as the pandemic started to taper off, there were questions around how much of that extra demand will stick and how much...
...Academics separately warned of the closure of more than 150 projects as EU funding that has supported them tapers out....
...“We’re not basketball players, who have a limit to their bodies and taper off. Rappers only get more skilled as we get older, because we have more experiences to draw from . . ....
...A 15-month holiday from business rates for retail and hospitality businesses during Covid started to taper in June last year and from April companies will only be able to claim 50 per cent of their business...
...And this may just be the beginning, given the growing influence of arch conservative justice Clarence Thomas, writes Jill Abramson....
...He told MPs that the government had cut fuel duty, given a council tax rebate to millions, cut the taper rate on universal credit and increased the warm homes discount....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Marc FilippinoSo when is a taper really a taper?...
...The BRC is calling for the government to taper its job retention scheme, with almost 1m workers in the retail trade now having their wages paid while they are on furlough....
...Some wages will need to be covered again as furlough support tapers. Business rates will resume....
...On July 1, employers must also start contributing 10 per cent towards furlough costs, while business rates relief tapers down to about two-thirds....
...Carter’s time spent as a chef at Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry, three-Michelin-starred as well, has also nurtured a special interest in top-quality culinary implements (“I love caring for good tools...
...firm Thoma Bravo has helped set the pace....
...Powell had set the bar “quite low”, however, Thomas Simons, an economist at Jefferies said, and September’s data may not be weak enough to throw the central bank off course from a move to taper in November...
...Some observers see the committee’s higher rate expectations, as well as the as-expected faster taper of asset purchases, as signs the Fed has been forced into a dramatic shift in approach....
...“The reintroduction of a small business corporation tax rate with a taper is good to see,” said Mike Cherry, chair of the Federation of Small Businesses....
...The sharp rise was a “clear indication that demand for labour is still strong and the biggest obstacle for continued job growth is the pool of available workers”, said Thomas Simons at Jefferies....
...The latest monthly survey of fund managers by the Bank of America noted investors are “bullishly positioned for permanent growth, transitory inflation and a peaceful Fed taper”....
...Get the latest worldwide picture with our vaccine tracker Latest news Bank of Canada tapers bond purchases but holds rate steady Supply bottlenecks caused by shortages of semiconductors and other items...
...Here is what I came up with: Inflation is looking mostly transitory, but there is enough of it, and short-term growth looks good enough that the Fed will have to taper bond purchases in a little while,...
...The annual rotation brings in Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic, Charles Evans from Chicago, Mary Daly from San Francisco and Richmond’s Thomas Barkin....
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