Cost Of Business Rising

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  After Dreamliner Crash, Insurance Cost May Raise Airfare By 2-5%

  The aviation insurance industry may consider raising the premium paid by airlines in the next cycle, following the crash of the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in Ahmedabad.

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  Amul Hikes Milk Prices By ₹ 2 Per Litre From Today

  The price of Amul milk across all variants has been hiked by Rs 2 per litre with effect from Monday in view of the increase in the overall cost of operation and production of milk, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) said.

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  Amazon Is Taking Half Of Each Sale From Its Merchants

  Grappling with slowing sales growth and rising costs, Amazon.com Inc. is squeezing more money from the nearly 2 million small businesses that sell products on its sprawling online marketplace.

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  Samsung Sees Profit Decline on Weak Server Chip Demand

  Samsung said on Thursday that it expects its fourth-quarter profit to fall due to weak server chip demand and rising smartphone competition, after posting its best quarterly operating profit in two years in the third quarter.

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  Tata Motors' December 2018 Sales Drop By 8 Per Cent

  Tata Motor's commercial and passenger vehicles sales dropped by 8 per cent at 50,440 units in December 2018 as against 54,627 in 2017. The liquidity crisis in the industry, higher interest rates and rising fuel costs continued to impact the commercial vehicle sales, with M&HCV and I&LCV segment witnessing a decline while the passenger vehicle busin...

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  Uber Reportedly Considering Spinning Off Self-Driving Car Unit, Bringing in Minority Investors

  Uber could spin off its Advanced Technologies Group into a separate business unit with its own valuation and equity.

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  Asian Shares Rise To 3-Week High Ahead Of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's Testimony

  Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's debut appearance is seen as critical for financial markets at a time when many investors are nervous about the US central bank's policy normalisation following years of stimulus after the financial crisis almost a decade ago.

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  Trading Online? How Can You Improve Cyber Security

  With the rising threat of malware and hacking, ignoring cyber security can cost one dearly

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  Gold Prices Fall To Lowest Since July

  Gold is highly sensitive to rising U.S. interest rates as these increase the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion and boost the dollar, in which it is priced.

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  Jet Airways Orders 75 Boeing Aircraft In $9.3 Billion Deal

  Airlines in India have hundreds of aircraft on order as they look to tap into a market growing by nearly 20 percent a year thanks to rising incomes and low cost fares.

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  SUVs, Luxury Cars Could Cost More, Cess Likely To Go Up

  Currently, the levy on these vehicles, including the 28 per cent GST and the 15 per cent cess, adds to 43 per cent. This could rise to 53 per cent if the law is amended.

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  Seagate to Cut 6,500 Jobs Globally Despite Strong Q4 Earnings Outlook

  Seagate will cut 14 percent of its total workforce by the end of fiscal year 2017 due to long-term weak outlook of its business

• Price rise makes weddings a pale affair in Hyderabad

  With inflation becoming an all-pervading evil, the effect has also been felt on the big fat Indian wedding. Weddings are important events for every Indian family and in most cases a major portion of one's savings is kept aside for the ceremony. However, with increasing prices for the past six months, weddings and their business have gone pale, say ...

• Changes in China could raise prices worldwide

  The cost of doing business in China is going up.Coastal factories are raising salaries, local governments are hiking minimum wage standards and if China allows its currency, the renminbi, to appreciate against the U.S. dollar later this year, as many economists are predicting, the cost of manufacturing in China will almost certainly rise. Although ...