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Finance

How Click’s supporting Mental Health Awareness Week 2021

Click Travel firmly supports raising mental health awareness and remains committed to exploring how to best support our employees. The Employee Assistance Program has been available to all employees for many years now and we also trained a number of Mental Health First Aiders in departments across the business a few years ago and this year rolled out mental health support training for all line managers.   Expanding the role of Mental Health First Aiders 1 in 4 people experience mental ill health within the UK every year (Mind UK). So we understand that inevitably, a significant portion of Click’s…
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Oil price spikes have analysts second-guessing their work

Benchmark oil prices have increased more than 20 per cent above a recent low point in mid-March. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, Files) Soaring oil prices on the heels of this week’s announcement by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its partners sent analysts scrambling to hike their estimates for the rest of 2023. The surprise plan to cut production has lifted the price of US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) (CL=F) more than 20 per cent above its recent low point in mid-March. The cuts consist of a voluntary 1.157 million barrels per day reduction set to take effect…
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Before Clarence Thomas, Abe Fortas resigned Supreme Court over finances

Comment on this storyComments Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is facing mounting scrutiny over his finances, after a ProPublica report documented his lavish donor-funded travel and a Washington Post report revealed that Thomas had reported hundreds of thousands of dollars in income from a defunct real estate firm. If Thomas were to resign over his financial dealings, he would not be the first justice to do so. The following story, lightly edited for length and style, originally ran in The Washington Post on May 16, 1969. Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigned from the Supreme Court yesterday, insisting that he had…
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Canada headed for recession in the second half of 2023, said Desjardins

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5 Steps to the Best Travel Management Process Flow

If corporate travel management is part of your daily grind, then you probably receive dozens of emails a week with travel requests, questions about itineraries, issues booking flights, last-minute changes, cancellations, and a whole slew of scheduling complications, especially when it’s comes to group booking. Rather than answering a million emails (and risk dropping the ball or missing out on seats because you couldn’t get to the email fast enough), why not move travel management outside of your email inbox altogether? Why not track it—as in, see what trips need to be booked and finalized, which ones are ongoing, which…
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Stocks wobble, Nasdaq sinks as gold rallies: Stock market news today

US stocks were mostly down, with tech stocks sinking more markedly, after another hiring report showed a slowdown in private-sector job growth and a separate print showed growth at US service providers also experienced a pullback. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) moved down 0.25%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) added a modest 0.24%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) dipped 1.07%. Treasury yields moved down sharply. The yield on the 10-year note slid to 3.303%. The move came after a weak ADP payrolls report on private-sector job growth. Meanwhile, on the commodities front, gold futures (GC=F) are hovering at their…
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TD Bank biggest sector short anywhere in the world

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Finance Banking Worries about TD’s exposure to Canada’s housing slowdown and ties to the US market Author of the article: Bloomberg News Geoffrey Morgan Published April 04, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read A TD Bank logo on a building in Toronto. Photo by Chris Helgren/Reuters Article content Turns out, the biggest short in the banking industry anywhere in the world isn’t in Switzerland or Silicon Valley, but rather, in the relatively tame financial center of Canada. Advertisements 2 This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below.…
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Click flies up to 12th position in Best Companies’ 100 Best Mid-Sized Companies to Work For 2021 (the 8th year running on the list!)

We’re proud to announce that we’ve been listed in the Best Companies’ 100 Best Mid-Sized Companies to Work For 2021, coming in at an incredible 12th place. That makes it 8 years in a row now, something we’re absolutely over the moon about after the difficult year that everybody has had. In addition, Click made it into the Top 10 in the regional lists, with a 6th place finish in the Midland’s 100 Best Companies to Work For 2021, alongside a host of great Midlands based businesses. And it doesn’t end there, with another epic result in the new Business…