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Gifts of gym memberships and Botox treatments can lead to hurt feelings – and bad reviews for the businesses
How would you feel if someone gave you a gym membership as a holiday or Valentine’s Day gift?What about Botox?Laser hair removal?Services like those are part of the estimated US$48 billion self-improvement industry. Does this...
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Don’t hold your breath for a Fed rate cut any time soon. In fact, a hike could be on the cards | Fortune
Here we go again. It’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting week, and Chairman Jerome Powell is likely to once again disappoint the White House by announcing a hold to the base interest rate. How fierce the reaction from...
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UK caps ground rents paid to freeholders
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the UK property myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.The UK will cap ground rents paid to freeholders on existing properties in a victory for leaseholders that Sir Keir Starmer...
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Trump threatens to hike tariffs on South Korea as national assembly has yet to approve last year’s trade deal | Fortune
President Donald Trump said Monday he is increasing tariffs on South Korean goods because the country’s national assembly has yet to approve the trade framework announced last year.Trump said on social media that import taxes would be raised on autos, lumber and pharmaceutical...
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Limits on ICE agents in Minnesota blocked by appeals court | Fortune
The Trump administration won an appeals court order blocking a judge’s restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics for dealing with protesters in Minnesota.The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday put an indefinite hold on a lower-court...
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Strategy buys even more Bitcoin—$264 million of it—even as Bitcoin slumps to $87,000. | Fortune
Despite the current downturn for crypto, Strategy added even more Bitcoin to its collection. The company bought more than 2,900 Bitcoin last week, bringing its total to over 712,000, according to an X post by co-founder Michael Saylor. The...
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US hospitality and tourism professors don’t reflect the diversity of the industry they serve
White and male professors continue to dominate U.S. hospitality and tourism education programs, our new research has found, even as the industry is growing increasingly diverse. This imbalance raises questions about who shapes the future...
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US hospitality and tourism professors don’t mirror the demographics of the industry they serve
White and male professors continue to dominate U.S. hospitality and tourism education programs, our new research has found, even as the industry is growing increasingly diverse. This imbalance raises questions about who shapes the future...
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Ending tax refunds by check will speed payments, but risks sidelining people who don’t have bank accounts
More than 6 million Americans receive paper tax refund checks annually. Often, those refunds go to purchase groceries or pay the bills. But this year, those taxpayers may be surprised to learn that the paper...
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Why the AI boom is forcing a rethink of career success | Fortune
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a simple but provocative point. He said artificial intelligence is more likely to increase the value of blue-collar work. The idea itself is not new. What makes...
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‘We all know someone who was killed’: Iran protesters describe personal toll of crackdown
Soroush Negahdari,BBC MonitoringandGhoncheh Habibiazad,BBC PersianWANA via REUTERSProtesters and activists have also described a pattern of refusal by the authorities...