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Compiler of the flash manufacturing PMI cited as rising to 55.1 in August.
UK permanent hiring grew for a second straight month in September, lifting the KPMG and REC placements index to 50.9, a four-year high. KPMG's Jon Holt called the recovery fragile, so employers have to judge how much permanent headcount to commit before this month's Budget sets tax policy.
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Diesel at $6.53 a gallon is a political problem for Trump. The remedy under discussion would hold a record 1.6 million barrels a day at home, in a market where the world price still sets the US price.
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Salesforce, FactSet, S&P Global and Moody's have all wired their data into Claude and ChatGPT, and only Moody's will name a charging method, which leaves per-seat contracts metering a unit that agents no longer respect.
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China supplies close to 30% of some transformer and switchgear categories and more than 40% of US battery imports, so the Energy Department's new power to condition those purchases lands on a buildout planning to go from 62 GW to 152 GW.
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New orders at their strongest since January 2018 and a record 11.5 trillion yen of July exports turn a thematic trade into an order book, on a single source that dates its own data loosely.
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