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...“Many of the medicines on this list are subject to the most extreme forms of cost-containment in EU member states, which exacerbates the risk of shortages.”...
...The proposed trip by financial services secretary Christopher Hui is the first since the UK accused China of violating the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the 1984 treaty under which Hong Kong was transferred...
...Moscow was endeavouring to “expand its influence, evade containment, destabilise and disrupt its adversaries, and is making progress”, warned the 38-page report, which draws on internal Russian documents...
...“Containment is not, on the face of it, possible. And yet for all our sakes, containment must be possible,” he writes. Suleyman’s worry list is long and partly interconnected....
...FT columnist Pilita Clark offers some tips on containment. Are legal challenges to US diversity schemes starting to bite?...
...Ultimately, the best defence would be to complete the EU’s Banking Union with a truly bloc-wide market for bank services, common regulation and a European safety net for depositors....
...Apple, which reported a 1 per cent slip in revenue as consumer spending on gadgets remained weak, also leaned heavily on cost-containment as a response to an unsettled economy....
...While China’s services demand has been resilient, the sales of consumer durables have been disappointing, largely dragged down by cars....
...Disney will “pull back not just to focus [on better content] but also as part of cost containment,” he said. “We will be spending less on what we make and making less.”...
...“The ongoing implementation of [Covid] containment measures continued to dampen the performance of China’s service sector in November,” Caixin said in its report....
...“The data itself is positive for sure,” said Ting Lu, chief China economist at Nomura, who suggested growth of “in-person services” had driven the country’s recovery this year....
...Experts said the policy meant China had failed to prioritise building robust defences for a mass outbreak, instead focusing its resources on containment....
...Demand for his services hauling potential Covid cases to the city’s quarantine hotels fell....
...100 per cent, otherwise I won’t be in public service. But they’re reflecting something deeper in their publics that didn’t exist....
...A high-speed rail line connection with mainland China will resume service no later than January 15, government officials said....
...Today’s top stories Evidence of a wave of Covid-19 deaths is emerging in Beijing despite official tallies showing no recent fatalities since the government’s U-turn on its virus containment strategy....
...“We are trying to make sure there is an orderly containment of what we have, and eventually exit, but in a way that is not a gift.”...
...Many of them work in manufacturing and related services, far from their homes and families....
...Markets & Financial Services WINNER: ComplyAdvantageComplyAdvantage’s sanctions tracking technology has helped banks and financial services groups stick to the rules on transactions involving Russia Economics...
...The Omicron variant of the virus has begun to run rampant through several big cities since the sudden U-turn on president Xi Jinping’s former zero-Covid policy of containment earlier this month....
...We were in the Containment Zone. I don’t know how it was supposed to be a Containment Zone because there are four people in my room in this much space....
...IFS director Paul Johnson said it was “a grim place to be”, with “high borrowing, high debt, high tax and yet a lot of public services feeling under strain”....
...A remarkably strong ISM services reading yesterday sent stocks sliding and the two-year yield up 12 basis points. Perhaps a sampling of next week, packed with Fed speakers and a fresh inflation report....
...Their reticence stems in part from fears that stronger stimulus measures would have only limited effectiveness, especially in regions brought to a standstill by Covid containment lockdowns Can Beijing boost...
...“But order backlogs remain long and supply chains remain vulnerable to Covid containment measures elsewhere in the world.” Alexandra White Will the ECB stick to plans to raise rates in July?...
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