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Increase in the minimum wage: the executive is happy, the unions are complaining, the employers are sad

The government announces an increase in the minimum wage of 1.6%, which brings the minimum wage to 1,501.90 euros from December 1. The unions believe that this is too little, believing that it is simply a matter of making up for the purchasing power lost in recent months. Employers' organizations are concerned about the additional weight on businesses' shoulders while the reductions in charges have been limited.

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Crypto

Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts CPI Data and Market Reaction

Tomorrow’s US Consumer Price Index report for October 2026, due at 8:30 a.m. ET on November 10, arrives at a delicate moment for risk assets. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI predicts what the upcoming CPI data drop could look like and how the market may react.After September’s hotter-than-expected print (headline +0.6% month-over-month and 3.7% year-over-year), markets […] The post Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts CPI Data and Market Reaction appeared first on Cryptonews.

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Entertainment

M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize

The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 award Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan on M John Harrison’s win: A visionary writer gets the recognition he deserves Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history. Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that while plenty of previous winners had dabbled in science fiction, Harrison’s was “the first Booker winner to have emerged from t

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Sports

Manchester’s soulless content machine football clubs sum up post-imperial Britain | Barney Ronay

United and City dominate the news cycle with stories so strange and vast they threaten to consume the rest of the league In Manchester this weekend it was possible to bookend your Thursday‑to‑Sunday entertainment with two cultural events. First up, a debut screening of the re‑released and uncensored Ken Russell film The Devils at Trafford Odeon. And three days later, three miles down the road, Manchester United versus Aston Villa at Old Trafford. As expected, one of these events provided a visceral cinematic experience, a deeply disturbing two-hour public meditation on the meaning of faith, bl

The Guardian
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