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IBM to pay Globalfoundries to take chip unit
October 20th, 2014
IBM Corp (IBM.N) said it would hive off its loss-making semiconductor unit to contract-chipmaker Globalfoundries Inc to focus on cloud computing, mobile and big data analytics. IBM will pay Globalfoundries $1.5 billion in cash over the next three years ...
Modern accountancy firms
October 20th, 2014
At the 2020 Group annual conference last week, US chairman Chris Frederiksen spoke about how to build a modern firm. Based on the group’s research and Frederiksen’s own experience of firms around the world, he came up with five ...
World Cup Trading Championships set for November
October 20th, 2014
JUST ANNOUNCED: The Inaugural World Cup Championship of Binary Options Trading, co-sponsored by the Nadex exchange, runs Nov. 2-28, 2014! Account minimums of just $500 — our lowest ever — apply for this event. This is the first new ...
Coinfloor to launch bitcoin fund and trade in broader range of currencies
October 20th, 2014
Coinfloor, the London-based bitcoin exchange, is opening up to a wider range of currencies, according to the FT. It will also raise money from its investors to launch a bitcoin fund next month, taking the company’s value up to ...
The future of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
October 17th, 2014
China recently reaffirmed that it backs India and Pakistan becoming members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). At the 14th meeting of the Council of Heads of States of SCO on 12 September, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for ...
The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect holds profits for sharp-eyed investors
October 17th, 2014
CapitalVue’s Elias Glenn explains how to own a piece of a Communist Party Newspaper or Zhou Enlai’s favorite liquor with the SH-HK Stock Connect Baijiu is going global: Under a program to be launched in October, individual investors in ...
Switzerland, EU finalize agreement on Corporate Tax Reform
October 17th, 2014
Switzerland and member states of the European Union (EU) have signed a joint statement that reaffirms Switzerland’s commitment to abolish contested corporation tax regimes and EU member states’ pledge to lift countermeasures. The agreement was signed on October 14, ...
E.U. Praise for Greece Fails to Stem Bond Sell-Off
October 17th, 2014
On Thursday, as more investors fled Greek bonds, they drove the government’s long-term borrowing costs to nearly 9 percent — up from 7 percent on Wednesday and the highest level since January. Although Greece appeared to be on the ...
UK blocks €5bn Russian North Sea deal
October 16th, 2014
The UK has blocked a €5bn deal by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman to acquire gas fields in the North Sea, as even private Russian companies with no connection to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s inner circle fall victim to the ...
Lloyd’s sells €1.1bn of bad bank to Lone Star
October 16th, 2014
Lloyds has jettisoned €1.1bn (£883m) of bad bank. Lloyds Banking Group, which is partly owned by the UK government, has sold its Irish residential home loans to Lone Star, a US private equity group. Lloyds’s Irish operation was heavily ...
