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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary will add honey and sure meat merchandise to an inventory of meals objects it has quickly banned from being imported from Ukraine in an effort to alleviate market pressures on Hungarian farmers, a authorities minister stated Thursday. Along with honey and meat, Hungary’s authorit...

The authorities could have to lift the state pension age to 70 by 2050 resulting from stress on the general public funds. Ian King is joined by Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies - who says 9 in 10 employees are saving lower than wanted for an honest way of life in retirement. Ian additionally speaks with the editorial director at Auto Trader, about demand for electrical automobiles, and the top of Salesforce about moral concerns of generative AI.:: Listen and subscribe to The Ian King Business Podcast right here. Content Source: information.sky.com

Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft for allegedly utilizing Twitter information with out permission.The billionaire's warning, through a tweet, got here after the tech large revealed it will drop his social media website from its company promoting platform. Microsoft's service makes use of AI to assist advert patrons handle their social media accounts in a single place.Musk mentioned the agency had skilled it "illegally utilizing Twitter information", including: "Lawsuit time."Microsoft has indicated that its service will nonetheless assist Meta's Facebook and Instagram. Sky News has contacted Microsoft for remark.Twitter now not has a press workplace, as a substitute responding to journalists' enquiries with a poop emoji.Read extra:Have Musk's actions value Twitter cus...

The London-focused property company Foxtons has recorded a 27% leap in lettings income, partly aided by a concentrate on securing "longer non-cancellable terms" from tenants.The firm reported a ten% enhance in whole income to £32.9m in the course of the first three months of the yr - pushed by its lettings division which contributed £22.8m of that sum. Poor availability and excessive demand noticed rents rise by an inflation-busting 20% in 2022, with the newest information from HomeLet displaying prices nonetheless going up.The common London month-to-month hire stands at just below £2,000, it reported.The non-public rental market has been boosted by rising affordability issues over home purchases because the Bank of England raises its essential rate of interest to fight exces...

Capita, the outsourcing specialist and authorities contractor, has revealed that buyer, provider or colleague knowledge could have been accessed throughout a cyber assault in March.The firm, which introduced earlier this month that it had been focused, mentioned its investigations had recognized that the assault on its techniques first came about on or round 22 March. It mentioned the unauthorised entry was not interrupted till 31 March.It believed the hackers primarily impacted entry to inside Microsoft Office 365 purposes, admitting there was proof of a "limited" knowledge breach. "Capita continues to work through its forensic investigations and will inform any customers, suppliers or colleagues that are impacted in a timely manner," its assertion mentio...

GENEVA — U.S. lawmakers have accused embattled Swiss financial institution Credit Suisse of limiting the scope of an inside investigation into Nazi shoppers and Nazi-linked accounts, together with some that had been open till just some years in the past. The Senate Budget Committee says an unbiased ombudsm...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Most of the nation’s main skilled sports leagues, plus the media firms Fox and NBCUniversal are creating an alliance to make sure that sports betting promoting is completed responsibly and doesn't goal minors. The Coalition for Responsible Sports Betting Advertising was created Wednes...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ appointees on Wednesday began trying to reshape Disney World’s governing physique with proposals to eradicate a planning board and prohibit masks mandates and COVID-19 vaccine necessities in an evolving showdown between the Republican governor and the world’s best-known leisure firm. ...

Interest in new electrical automobiles could also be declining, information from the UK's largest automobile gross sales web site suggests.The quantity of recent electrical automobile searches, advert views and messages to retailers on the Auto Trader platform was down practically two thirds (65%) from the start of final yr to March this yr. Auto Trader has attributed this to the excessive price of electrical automobiles, larger borrowing charges and costlier electrical energy, all amid a price of dwelling disaster.The firm referred to as on the federal government to introduce tax incentives to enhance affordability.In January 2022, electrical automobiles (EVs) made up 16.3% of recent automobile advert views on the web site however by March 2023 it had fallen to 10.54%, Auto ...

TOKYO — The United States hopes to deepen commerce ties with Japan because it fortifies cooperation on financial safety with its Asian allies and companions, the highest U.S. commerce envoy mentioned Wednesday. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai’s go to to Tokyo follows a visit to the Philippine capit...