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Treasury seeks ways to block tax inversions
August 6th, 2014
The Treasury Department is exploring ways to unilaterally block a surge of U.S. companies shifting their headquarters overseas in search of major tax savings. The new escalation of the White House battle against corporate tax inversions came as a ...
Walgreen Is Said to Near a Deal to Buy Out Boots Pharmacy, but Without a Tax Inversion
August 6th, 2014
The Walgreen Company is said to be near a deal to take over the British pharmacy retailer Alliance Boots, but through a plan to do so without moving its corporate headquarters abroad. The American retailer is closing in on ...
Crédit Agricole Takes $950 Million Hit on Portuguese Bank
August 5th, 2014
The French bank Crédit Agricole said Tuesday that it nearly had its entire second-quarter profit wiped away as it took a $950 million charge to write off its entire investment in the troubled Portuguese lender Banco Espírito Santo, in ...
Alibaba Has a Computing Cloud, and It’s Growing, Too
August 5th, 2014
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has a growing cloud computing business and a hunger for American companies. And soon, it will most likely have a large amount of cash. Will it take on the American cloud giants? It would ...
Markets fell for July, but Analysts Are Upbeat
August 1st, 2014
The stock market remarked the sharpest decline in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index since April for the month of July, while the Dow Jones industrial index dropped more than 300 points, eliminating all of its gains for the ...
British Fraud Office conducts Second Settlement in Inquiry Over Icelandic Bank
July 31st, 2014
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office said on Thursday that it had reached a second settlement in a series of civil claims brought by two brothers after a flawed investigation into the collapse of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing during the financial ...
Barclays gains Profit But Investment Banking Revenue declines
July 30th, 2014
Barclays said on Wednesday that it had swung to a profit in the second quarter, but that it was hurt by lower revenue in its investment banking unit and by higher provisions for improperly sold insurance. The British bank ...
Flipkart Indian e-commerce, raises $1 Billion
July 29th, 2014
India’s largest e-commerce firm, Flipkart, has confirmed that it managed to raise $1 billion in its latest round of fund-raising, thus becoming by far the largest venture investment ever received by an Indian Internet company. Globally, the amount raised would ...
Argentine’s debt must be paid to holdouts
July 29th, 2014
Argentina’s battle in courts for over a dozen of years against the claims of holdout investors in its defaulted debt, did not turn out positively. The holdouts, led by Paul Singer’s Elliott Capital Management and Mark Brodsky’s Aurelius Capital ...
Banks Cash In on Mergers Intended to avoid Taxes
July 29th, 2014
Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, recently said, “I love America.” Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, wrote an opinion article saying, “Investing in America still produces the best return.” Yet guess who’s behind the ...
