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The Guardian says Rishi Sunak is facing renewed pressure from business leaders to delay a planned £12bn rise in national insurance, amid warnings over soaring costs for companies and households.

The Guardian says The Co-operative Bank has more than tripled its bonus pot for bankers after a “milestone year” that resulted in its first profit in a decade.

Arab News says Oil breached $100 a barrel for the first time since 2014 on Feb. 24 and gold is up, while cyrptocurrencies —Bitcion and Ether — are sinking.

House prices have skyrocketed in just one month as the easing of Covid situation has reignited interest in city living, according to a new report.

The Independent says UK inflation has stayed at a near 30-year high after rising further in January as Britain remains in the grip of a tightening cost-of-living squeeze.

The Independent says Scotland’s business owners are the most confident they have been in six months, a bank’s analysis has said, as the country’s economy continued to rebound from coronavirus.

The Guardian says research has found the number claiming universal credit has more than doubled since the start of the pandemic to at least 2.3 million.

The Independent says Ryanair missed its targets in December after the spread of Omicron forced governments to reimpose restrictions on international travel.

The Guardian says unemployed workers will be forced to take up a job in any sector or face swift financial sanctions under a crackdown designed to fill hundreds of thousands of vacancies in sectors from social care to construction.

More grim news for the crypto market on Monday, as Spain begins to regulate crypto asset rampant advertising of crypto assets.