Cost of living pressures are encouraging Australians to travel closer to home, and have shorter holidays. In 2023, domestic tourists took 112.6 million trips, a four per cent rise on the previous year, according to data from Tourism Research Australia. But holidaymakers opted for shorter, cheaper trips, closer to home in 2023. Interstate tourism spending […]
BOCA CHICA, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX is aiming to launch its fourth Starship in early May, the company's president said. Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, said at the Satellite 2024 conference on Tuesday that SpaceX is aiming to launch its fourth Starship "in about six weeks," at the beginning of May. []
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Members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria have blamed the excess cash in circulation for the accelerating inflation in the country. This was revealed in the statements they made at the February MPC meeting, which was posted on the website of the apex bank on Monday. One of the MPC Read More
Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday its senior employees, whose compensation includes more stock-related awards than cash, may not receive a cash pay raise this year. For this year's compensation cycle, we are prioritizing cash base pay increases for employees whose compensation is weighted more heavily in base pay as opposed to stock, an Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement. Some of these top employees' compensation, however, will meaningfully exceed that of last year due to growth...
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We learn what a report from Rice University's Baker Institute suggests about the cost and quality of hospital care in the Bayou City.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued an update for the Lāhainā Disaster Recovery Center.
As inflation comes down, retirees will likely see a smaller annual increase to Social Security benefits, but they can take steps to protect their income.
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High inflation has prompted higher Social Security cost-of-living adjustments. But as the rate of price growth subsides, the annual increases for Social Security may fall in 2025 and beyond, predicts Mary Johnson, a Social Security and Medicare policy analyst at The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan senior group. In 2024, more than 66 million Americans […]
Bruce Carnegie-Brown, chair of insurance giant Lloyd's of London, told CNBC