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...As we’ve covered previously, the US’s auto insurance rates have soared 24 per cent over the past two years (v BLS data)....
...“But without the capacity some of the social insurance systems have got, and the culture in which they sit, there’s no magic ingredient that social insurance automatically produces better results,” he warned...
...Andrew Mitchell, the new development secretary, is understood to accept this fiscal reality....
...She also warned companies that authorities will freeze their corporate accounts and suspend insurance if their trucks are being used in the protests....
...They might look at the exemption that stops you paying national insurance once you reach pension age if you carry on working. They might look at some kind of wealth taxes....
...The details of the correspondence emerged in the claim by Tata, which is suing three of Gupta’s companies — Liberty Specialty Steels, Liberty House Group and Speciality Steel UK — over the partial payment...
...Eric Yuan, chief executive, claimed the company was moving from being “a killer app company to a platform company”....
...s coronavirus epidemic are eased — it will suggest that the short, sharp shock to the world’s second-largest economy since January might well be followed by a second-quarter rebound — the much vaunted “V-shaped...
...Mitchells & Butlers' rates bill is also around c.£100m, c.50% of FY19 PBT (Sep YE). It is not 100% clear this applies to large businesses, though most of the companies we have spoken to think it does....
...CIB missed on lower EQ revenues, while Insurance & Corporate Center beat. Payments were line....
...Meanwhile, Peel Hunt’s gone to “buy” from “add” on pub operator Mitchells & Butlers with a 300p target....
...Financials the key sector beneficiary: We are Overweight Banks and Insurance from a top-down strategy perspective....
...The company is expected to outline changes to software that controls a system designed to automatically prevent a mid-flight stall....
...; (iv) assist in the payment of sickness benefits; and (v) protect supply-chain financing in response to the coronavirus....
...(FT) HK v SH The fight to attract IPOs used to play out between Hong Kong and Singapore but now the focus has moved northward....
...Higher payouts for claims at the car insurance company Geico were among the culprits, along with losses that Berkshire recorded as a result of its $10bn underwriting agreement with AIG....
...Others are more frivolous: Yasuda Kasai, the Japanese insurance company, paying $40m for Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in 1987; and Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian’s 2015 purchase of a Modigliani painting for $170m...
...“When they fill out the insurance claim, they will be asked if they are running a business from the property.”...
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...Profiles of the acquitted Andrew Harrison Former corporate broker at Panmure Gordon and Lloyds Banking Group with a specialty in mid-cap firms, Mr Harrison earned £260,000 a year....
...This is the kind of progressive social policy that this Government is proud to pioneer....
...This will remove over £1bn from the cost of providing motor insurance. We expect the industry to pass on this saving, so motorists see an average saving of £40-50 per year off their insurance bills....
...Switzerland, long under pressure given its reputation as a haven for kleptocrats, has emerged as one of the most progressive jurisdictions....
...(He compared the individual mandate obliging Americans to buy health insurance or else pay a fine to the government compelling the country to eat that vegetable.)...
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