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By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – A half-dozen trade groups from the semiconductor and manufacturing industries sent a private letter to U.S. President Joe Biden complaining that new export controls expected this week were rushed through without consulting them. The Biden administration on Monday released regulations on where computing chips from Nvidia can be placed around … Read more

Large food portions for children may be fuelling Britain’s obesity crisis, with more than a third of parents making youngsters always finish their meals, nutritionists have warned. A new poll for the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) found 37% of parents always or often make their children eat everything on their plate, with a further 23% … Read more

Two thirds of leading retailers warned they will be forced to hike prices to cope with the increase to National Insurance costs amid mounting pressure on the Chancellor. Two thirds (67%) of 52 chief financial officers surveyed for the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said they would raise prices in response to increases in employers’ National … Read more

A new communications system for emergency services to share more information in real-time is to be designed and built by tech firm IBM, the Home Office has announced. The scandal-hit project to bring in the Emergency Services Network (ESN), first launched in 2015, was supposed to have replaced the ageing Airwave system for police, fire … Read more

Women and their partners should be entitled to paid bereavement leave if they experience a miscarriage, MPs have recommended. Sick leave is an “inappropriate and inadequate form of employer support” for couples after such a pregnancy loss, the Women and Equalities Committee said. Since April 2020 employees can be eligible for statutory parental bereavement leave … Read more

Cyber security has been named as the leading concern among IT leaders, ahead of artificial intelligence, in a poll of the computing sector’s professional body. The annual survey of tech professionals by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, found that over a third (36%) said cyber security was the main issue. The study also found … Read more

Investors are being urged to focus on climate adaptation and resilience as US firms increasingly turn away from environmental, social and governance initiatives. Experts from the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and Investment Leaders Group called on investors to prepare for a hotter world as they unveiled a roadmap to manage physical … Read more

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is awaiting inflation data as the Treasury continues to grapple with rising borrowing costs and market turmoil. The latest indicator of the economy’s health is expected on Wednesday morning, and December’s rate is likely to remain at 2.6%, the same as the previous month. The Chancellor is dealing with a period of … Read more

CoStar Group, Inc. provides information, analytics, and online marketplace services to the commercial real estate, hospitality, residential, and related professionals industries in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company offers CoStar Property that provides inventory of office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality, and student housing properties and land; CoStar Sales, … Read more

(Bloomberg) — Los Angeles already had a housing affordability crisis before devastating wildfires burned entire neighborhoods to the ground. The disaster is making it worse. Most Read from Bloomberg Incoming calls at LA Estate Rentals, which manages and leases homes in some of the area’s costliest neighborhoods, have jumped to 500 a day, more than … Read more