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Roberts Reunites High Court Majority After Obamacare Vote
May 19th, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority is back to being the conservative majority. Two years after the court upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care law and a year after it bolstered gay rights, the five Republican-appointed justices are voting together ...
Springtime for Bankers
May 19th, 2014
By any normal standard, economic policy since the onset of the financial crisis has been a dismal failure. It’s true that we avoided a full replay of the Great Depression. But employment has taken more than six years to ...
Bitcoin: guide for tax purposes
May 19th, 2014
Interest in Bitcoin has shot up since the virtual currency’s inception in 2009, and many a contractor is considering how it could play a part in their business, writes James Poyser, co-founder of online contractor accountancy firm inniAccounts. While ...
HMRC doubles inquiries into self-assessors
May 19th, 2014
The number of taxpayers whose financial affairs HM Revenue & Customs investigated in the past 12 months has almost doubled, in line with the growing haul from such self-assessors. In fact, self-assessment inquiries by the department hit 237,215 people ...
SEC Warns Investors About Marijuana-Related Investments
May 19th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cautioned investors about the potential for fraud in microcap companies that claim their operations relate to the marijuana industry after the agency suspended trading in the fifth such company within the past two ...
SocGen Ex-Trader Kerviel Taken in by French Police at Border
May 19th, 2014
Jerome Kerviel, the former Societe Generale SA trader facing prison for a record banking loss, was taken charge of by French police after prosecutors said his failure to turn himself in would have made him a fugitive. More than ...
Putin to boost ties with China
May 19th, 2014
Amid a bitter crisis in relations with the West over Ukraine, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is moving to bolster ties with China. Russia sees relations with China as a top priority and their ties now are the best ever, ...
FCA warning against clone firms
May 19th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory authority, has issued a warning informing the investors that “Startuploans Ltd” and “Loan-Monarch” are clone firms, thus, are not permitted to provide any financial services or products. Furthermore, FCA points out ...
Oil extends gains above $102 on demand outlook
May 19th, 2014
The price of oil extended gains above $102 a barrel Monday on forecasts of higher global demand. Benchmark U.S. crude for June delivery was up 16 cents to $102.18 a barrel at 0620 GMT in electronic trading on the ...
Deutsche Bank boosts finances with new capital
May 19th, 2014
Deutsche Bank AG says raising 8 billion euros ($11 billion) in new capital from investors will strengthen its finances as it faces tighter regulation and uncertain costs from litigation. Co-CEO Anshu Jain told analysts Monday that the fresh capital ...
