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At least 37 people Adidas Ultra Boost Grey Sale , including call center staff from an American firm, are believed to have perished in a fire that tore through a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Davao, local authorities said yesterday.


President Rodrigo Duterte, himself a Davao native, visited distraught relatives outside the burning building overnight but told them there was “zero” chance their loved ones had survived.


Firemen found one body as the blaze was finally extinguished yesterday, Davao Mayor Sara Duterte, the president’s daughter Adidas Ultra Boost Triple Black Sale , told reporters.


Firemen concluded that all those trapped in the building are dead, she said, adding, “They assessed that no one would survive in that heat and with that thick, black smoke.”


The deadly fire adds fresh misery for the mainly Catholic Philippines at Christmas as the death toll from a tropical storm that hit the south of the country last Friday crossed 200 and with tens of thousands displaced by severe flooding and landslides.


The blaze started at the four-storey NCCC Mall on Saturday morning, sending thick plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky over Davao.


With low wages but strong English language skills, the Philippines is a popular destination for international companies to set up customer call centers.


The building’s top floor housed a 24-hour call center for the US-based market research company SSI.


Jimmy Quimsing Adidas Ultra Boost Black Sale , a retired seaman, was one of the relatives desperately waiting for news. His 25-year-old son Jim Benedict worked at the call center and had not been in contact since the fire broke out.


Quimsing said he spoke to President Duterte and had been told to prepare for the worst.


“He told us ... no one would survive under these circumstances,” he said.


Paolo Duterte, the president’s son and the vice mayor of Davao, also wrote on Facebook that fire officials had told him there was “zero” chance of anyone trapped surviving the blaze.


In a statement on its local Facebook page, SSI said it would set up a “command center” for the relatives of those missing. “Please continue to pray for everyone’s safety,” it added.


Fire marshal Honeyfritz Alagano said the blaze may have started by a spark on the third floor of the mall Adidas Ultra Boost Triple White Sale , which had a furniture section.


“One of our firemen here has a kid who is (a call center) agent there. He told us some of them went to collect their stuff at their lockers and were trapped,” Alagano said. “The mall is an enclosed space with no ventilation. When our firemen tried to enter they were pushed back by smoke and fire.”


Mayor Duterte said she told the fire fighters to retrieve all the dead, stressing, “You do not stop until you find 37.”


She also said the circumstances surrounding the fire would be investigated but added that it was too early to say who was at fault.


Deadly blazes occur regularly in the Philippines, particularly in slum areas where there are virtually no fire safety standards.


“It’s possible that while they were working, they did not immediately notice the fire spreading,” Davao police officer Ralph Canoy said.


NEW YORK Adidas Ultra Boost White Sale , Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks wavered and posted gains for the week, as investors mainly focused on tax legislation progress and newly-released economic data.


U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a 1.5-trillion-dollar tax cut bill into law, as well as a spending bill to keep the federal government running through Jan. 19, 2018.


The U.S. Congress this week passed the tax bill along party line, with no Democrats voting for it.


At the signing ceremony, Trump called it "a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs," adding that "corporations are literally going wild."


"By cutting taxes and reforming the broken system Adidas Ultra Boost Sale , we are now pouring rocket fuel into the engine of our economy," Trump said Wednesday in a statement after the final congressional passage of the tax legislation.


The tax bill, the sweeping rewrite of U.S. tax law since 1986, would cut the corporate income tax rate to 21 percent from the current 35 percent and lower individual income rates.


Some companies said they would spend the savings from lower corporate taxes on higher wages and new construction.


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Investors were optimistic about this, as they bet that lower taxes would boost companies' earnings.


"All this as optimism piles upon optimism. Like the proposed tax plan or not, there is no denying that what appears before us is incredibly friendly toward business, and that changing environment is not lost on the investing public," said Stephen Guilfoyle, president of Sarge986 LLC.


On the economic front Ultra Boost Triple Black Sale , U.S. personal income in November increased 54 billion U.S. dollars, or 0.3 percent, lower than market consensus of 0.4 percent, according to the Commerce Department Friday.


In November, disposable personal income increased 50.9 billion dollars, or 0.4 percent, and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased 87.1 billion dollars Ultra Boost Black Sale , or 0.6 percent.


U.S. new orders for manufactured durable goods in November increased 3.1 billion dollars or 1.3 percent to 241.2 billion dollars, missing market projection of a 2-percent gain, the Commerce Department announced in another report.


U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the third quarter of 2017, according to the "third" estimate released by the Commerce Department on Thursday. In the second quarter, real GDP increased 3.1 percent.


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