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...The Treasury said a further £1.4bn would be raised over two years by increasing visa fees for migrant workers and putting up their annual NHS “surcharge” by 66 per cent to £1,035....
...The annual immigration health surcharge — a mandatory levy to fund NHS access for migrants, which has been frozen since 2020 — would increase 66 per cent to £1,035....
...As the UK woke up on Monday September 26, £1 was worth just $1.035, the closest that the pound and dollar had ever come to parity....
...Via the Twitter account of Julie VerHage (open in Twitter to watch in full): We’re not sure about the veracity of each other’s claims but you must admit, it beats a 20-minute discussion with a John Doe...
...(Saturday, 7pm; Sunday 7.20pm.)...
...The evidence destruction claims helped spur a 7,000-page Senate report that concluded torture was wrong and ineffective. Her nomination stands a real chance of being blocked....
...He won a third term in a president election last month with 98.7 per cent of the vote....
...A John Doe sent us a letter, and then his suitcase, saying: ‘I have been to over 70 countries with it, and I want to give it back to you. It should be in Cologne.’...
...Doe believes Wright’s homes should be valued as fine art....
...First half profits are always lower and more volatile than the second half of the year (which includes the crucial Christmas period), but nevertheless John Lewis said the 14.7 per cent fall in pre-tax profit...
...The notion of the “family-run” company sums up the warm glow that envelops small businesses — even though that description can apply as much to Walmart as John Doe and Sons Ltd....
...Avid Life Media, the site’s Canadian parent company, is also named in the suit filed in a California court by a “John Doe”, a Los Angeles-based man who created an account in March 2012....
...Leeks and onions were the first candidates to benefit from the grill at John Doe....
...up 0.51% according to Google finance, our pricing tool is borked for this for some reason DJIA up +88.68 (+0.49%) at 18,038 Nasdaq up +21.07 (+0.42%) at 5,035 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -0.29...
...During the three months to November 30, Accenture posted record net revenues of $7.9bn, an increase of 7 per cent over the same period the previous year....
...The US – where it sold 2,035 cars last year, up 9 per cent on 2012 – accounts for nearly a third of its sales. It currently caps production at 7,000 cars to maintain exclusivity....
...The data made it easy to see when a worker separated from his employer — John Doe used to earn taxable income from the Cleveland Widget Company and then stopped — but not why....
...(Financial Times) - John Kay: Why eurozone bond markets are unfazed by the bazooka question. (FTfm) - Treasuries are now the ‘world’s worst performers’....
...(Reuters) DoE study backs US gas exports: The long-awaited study was commissioned for the Department of Energy as it considers applications to export almost a third of the country’s output....
...DJIA down -8.70 (-0.07%) at 12,871 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +13.93 (+1.36%) at 1,035 FTSE100 up +69.49 (+1.25%) at 5,641 CAC 40 up +43.55 (+1.36%) at 3,240 Dax up +79.80 (+1.24%) at 6,496 Currencies...
...If gas put 809,000 more Americans to work tomorrow, it would shave the unemployment rate from its current 8.2 per cent to a slightly less dismal 7.7 per cent....
...Being long Brent has yielded a +15.3% return so far this year compared to -7.7% in WTI and with the current risk on the Brent-WTI spread we would consider bringing home some of those profits on the long...
...Within a month, the DOE will be publishing a set of proposed rules that will restrict incentive compensation for enrolment staff at post-secondary schools....
...Series from £58,740; Jaguar XJ from £53,775; Mercedes S-Class from £59,035...
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