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When it comes to shopping for travel online, we're often led by booking sites to believe we're getting the best deal possible — and that may not always be the case. Particularly when booking accommodation.

You may remember that earlier in the week we posted about Barry O’Sullivan’s comments in agriculture estimates, where he said:

It is no surprise to her that the property industry has been one of the biggest shedders of jobs in WA in recent years, as new labour data shows the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at its highest since 2002, with a record number of people now looking for work.

Chelsea are considering Zinedine Zidane and Frank Lampard as potential long-term replacements for Maurizio Sarri, according to Sky Sports.

Hedging bets – Coal demand in Europe will almost completely collapse within three years, according to Per Lekander, who manages more than $1.1 billion at London-based hedge fund Lansdowne Partners. He predicts this will come amid a rise in EU carbon to its “normalised” price “north of €50”. Lekander, who has been involved in the EU ETS for over a decade, also believes this quarter’s 25% drop in EUAs is only a temporary correction triggered by mild weather and falling gas prices. Lansdowne’s fund is up 1% so far this year compared to a return of 6% in 2018 and 24% in 2017. (Financial Times)

Thermo Fisher sells everything from lab instruments to forensic DNA testing kits to DNA mapping machines, which help scientists decipher a person’s ethnicity and identify diseases to which he or she is particularly vulnerable. China accounted for 10 percent of Thermo Fisher’s $20.9 billion in revenue, according to the company’s 2017 annual report, and it employs nearly 5,000 people there.

Led by MIT engineers and Wall Street analysts, Trefis (through its dashboards platform dashboards.trefis.com) helps you understand how a company's products, that you touch, read, or hear about everyday, impact its stock price. Surprisingly, the founders of Trefis discovered...

A case for process deviation. When I sold enterprise software solutions as an IBM VAR, every engagement involved configuring and proposing IBM hardware and my company’s software. One day, the standard process got thrown for a loop. A prospect contacted me and said they already had IBM’s hardware installed, loved it, and planned to keep it. The company was dissatisfied with their current software provider. This was a software-only deal.

For 2019, we expect a non-GAAP tax rate on worldwide earnings to be approximately flat versus 2018, plus or minus 1%.

For how long will this continue? Another 29 years? Or more? Pakistan will not stop. It will remain hostile towards India even as a section of Kashmiris continues to serve as Pakistan’s proxies, receiving arms, training, money and moral support from Islamabad, unless Pakistan itself ceases to exist or Jammu and Kashmir ceases to be a part of India or Pakistan is considerably weakened. The first two situations are ruled out.

But a DOT spokesperson who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the department chose Paducah because it’s “always been a natural hub for regional inland waterway traffic,” given its proximity to four major rivers and the presence of “more U.S.-flag inland waterway operators than anywhere else in the nation.” The low cost of living also made it attractive, the spokesperson said.

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