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Chancellor Rachel Reeves (Image: Getty)Falling payrolls and vacancies are a result of firms grappling with decisions by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, including higher National Insurance (NI) bills, an increased wage burden and increasingly “using automation to avoid adding headcount”, experts have said. They added young people are bearing the brunt, as seen with NEET (young people ‘Not in Education, Employment, or Training’) numbers approaching one million — and warned a whole generation is getting “locked out of work” with profound “long-term economic and social consequences”.Data published this week showed vacancy numbers hit a near five-year low in the latest quarter, with…

The local industry has appreciated the Punjab Government’s decision of capping the 0.25 per cent stamp duty on equitable mortgages by a maximum of up to Rs 1 lakh.By issuing the notification regarding capping the 0.25 per cent stamp duty to a maximum of Rs 1 lakh payable on equitable mortgage bank loans irrespective of any amount of bank loan, the Chief Minister has given us a much-needed relief, said the industrialists.The president of the Association of Trade and Industrial Undertakings (ATIU), Pankaj Sharma, said the step would save entrepreneurs’ funds, which they could further use as working capital or…

Historically, buying property has been seen as one of the best ways to invest your money. Steadily rising property prices and rental income, coupled with rock-bottom interest rates, have typically brought great returns for investors who’ve managed to get their foot on the property ladder. But with changes in buy-to-let rules and higher interest rates, is that still the case? “Property has long been seen as the gold standard of investing,” says Vix Leyton,  a consumer finance expert at the finance app thinkmoney. “But just because it’s traditional doesn’t mean it’s always the best choice for everyone. Property can still…

Oath for Justice: Suspicious transfer of property for the mayor’s brother’s apartment building in Viti News Express newspaper 25/04/2026 21:00 Oath for Justice brings you the investigation into how public property in Viti was allegedly merged with private property to pave the way for the construction of a multi-story complex by the brother of the mayor. How were the boundaries of the parcels changed and was this in accordance with the law? Was the exchange of public property made without going through the Municipal Assembly? Why did the mayor authorize legal actions for a process where the beneficiary is his…

The New York Times reported that Canada secured astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s seat on NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission by negotiating a deal to provide Canadarm3 to Gateway, a planned US lunar space station, and that Hansen’s flight makes Canada only the second country after the US to send an astronaut so deep into space.   Yet the sector remains underfunded relative to peers.   The Times, citing a Royal Bank of Canada report, said Canada’s annual space budget is about $834m, last among 10 OECD Space Forum countries when measured as a share of GDP.  The paper reported that in 2018 about 70 Canadian aerospace firms, universities and industry groups banded together…

Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St’s investing ideas for FREE. The fair value price target for BJ’s Restaurants has been adjusted slightly, moving from US$44.78 to US$44.56, a change of about 0.5%. This small trim sits against a backdrop of mixed analyst views, where targets generally cluster from the high US$30s to the high US$40s and ratings range from Buy to Underweight as opinions split on same store sales and unit growth. Read on to see how to interpret these shifts and keep track of the evolving story around BJ’s Restaurants.…

In the lead-up to its first-quarter 2026 results, Alexandria Real Estate Equities faced Wall Street expectations for earnings of US$1.74 per share and revenue of US$666.8 million, both implying year-over-year declines. Analysts’ slight downward revision to earnings estimates over the past month highlights growing caution about Alexandria’s near-term performance and leasing momentum. Against this backdrop of anticipated earnings and revenue pressure, we’ll explore how the softer analyst expectations could reshape Alexandria’s investment narrative. Rare earth metals are an input to most high-tech devices, military and defence systems and electric vehicles. The global race is on to secure supply of these…

The Middle East conflict has been underway for almost six weeks and Australia’s biggest export industry is beginning to emerge as one of the clear winners.Rio Tinto’s quarterly update this week offered proof that prices for the miners’ commodities – particularly Australia’s most lucrative export, iron ore – have risen faster than their energy costs.Loading… Source link

Leveraging Private Company Status for Loans Providing Bailouts to His Other Companies It has been revealed that Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, has personally borrowed hundreds of billions of won from the company and provided funds to his other companies. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX. Photo by Reuters Yonhap News. View original image On April 24 (local time), The New York Times (NYT) reported that, based on internal company documents and testimonies from insiders, Musk borrowed a total of $500 million (approximately KRW 738.8 billion) from SpaceX over three separate occasions between 2018 and 2020.The interest rate was sometimes below…

In the face of an industry-wide surge in redemption requests from retail investors affecting non-traded private credit business development companies and interval funds, alternative asset management behemoth Blackstone reported increased assets under management from the private wealth channel and sought to separate “fact from fiction” on the overall state of private credit as it reported first-quarter earnings.Overall, Blackstone reported AUM in its private wealth platform has reached $310 billion, up 14% year-over-year. In the first quarter, it raised $10 billion, including $7 billion from its evergreen strategies led by BXPE (a semiliquid strategy focused on private equity launched last year),…