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U.S. employers can expect to see healthcare costs rise by 8.5 percent in 2012, compared with an increase of 8 percent in 2011, according to the annual report on medical cost trends, published by PwC’s Health Research Institute.

Family firms around the world are confident about their future prospects, but many aren’t doing enough to prepare themselves for the years ahead. Nearly half still don’t have a succession plan and of those that do, only 50% have decided who will take over the top job.

Point of view defines imperatives for food companies in wake of broader requirements

As uncertainty about market conditions prevails, only 39% of the nation's leading private company executives surveyed for PwC US’s Private Company Trendsetter Barometer voiced optimism about US economic growth over the next 12 months ¾ down from the previous quarter’s 45% and four points below a year ago.

PwC US's latest Family Business Survey finds that US family businesses are poised for post-crisis growth, despite ongoing concern about market conditions. Notably, more US family businesses (88%) are concerned about market conditions than their global counterparts (68%), but they are also more confident about the future.

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, increases in gasoline prices will negatively impact U.S. lodging demand between Memorial Day and Labor Day in 2007 by an average of 4,000 rooms per night assuming gasoline prices had remained at 2006 levels, or 25,000 rooms per night assuming gasoline prices had remained at 2005 levels.