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The available data doesn’t specify how much of the staff expansion represents new classroom teachers, as opposed to support staff, such as janitors and attendance clerks, or administrators, such as vice principals and math supervisors.…

Affordable housing, once considered a sunrise segment of the real estate sector following the Union Government’s promise of “Housing for All” in 2015 and subsequent subsidies under the Prime Minister Awas Yojana has witnessed one of the…

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business China’s manufacturing activity contracted for a fourth month in July while non-manufacturing activity expanded slower than expected, showing the economy’s recovery remains under pressure.…

Utility heavyweight AGL has opted to sublease three floors at the EY building at 200 George Street, while NTT (formerly Dimension Data) is reviewing its 6000 square metre requirement at the GPT-managed Darling Park Tower 3, after the group…

The number of Australian households shopping online continues to grow, but consumers are spending less at the virtual checkout and hunting harder for bargains as budgets get stretched.A quarterly eCommerce update released by Australia Post…

“Twenty years ago, the German charts were just a carbon copy of British and American culture. Today, they’re all German acts.”This week on the MBW Podcast, Will Page, the ex-Chief Economist of both Spotify and UK collection society PRS For…

Nedbank, one of South Africa’s big-six banking groups, estimates that in the first quarter of 2023, GDP shrank by less than the previously expected 0.3%, albeit by minor margins, with the country’s unrelenting electricity crisis continuing…

The problems at Eskom and the effect of unreliable electricity supply on the economy are undisputed. Business leaders, economists and government are all well aware that continuous load shedding is hampering economic growth and making it…

A small number of tech companies are driving an ever-increasing share of the US stock market’s gains, prompting concerns among investors about the sustainability of the rally.The S&P 500 has risen 8 per cent so far in 2023, but…

A building on the campus at the world headquarters of Illumina is shown in San Diego, California, September 1, 2021.Mike Blake | ReutersIllumina on Tuesday unveiled plans to cut costs in a bid to improve the DNA sequencing company's…