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Cypriot government to impose immovable property tax
July 29th, 2014
All companies, organisations and individuals, either residing in Cyprus or abroad, who had immovable property registered in their name in Cyprus as of January 1, 2014, are subject to Immovable Property Tax, if the total value of their property ...
Deutsche Bank Posts 29 Percent Net Profit Drop
July 29th, 2014
Deutsche Bank AG posted a 29 percent drop in second-quarter net profit Tuesday, hit by what it described as higher taxes, declining revenue and political instability affecting the markets. Germany’s largest bank said its net profit in the April-June ...
Regulators to deal with Japanese hedge fund in insider trade case
July 29th, 2014
A small Japanese hedge fund has made a rare challenge against financial regulators over a 2010 insider trading case, disputing a finding that one of its fund managers acted on an insider tip of a share offering by energy ...
Ukraine plans to introduce “war tax”
July 29th, 2014
According to Ukraine’s Deputy Finance Minister, Volodymyr Matviychuk, the Ministry is considering the introduction of a special “war tax” of 1.5 percent on salaries, coming into effect before the end of the year. Following a media briefing, Matviychuk cited ...
Existing law is enough for dealing with social media crime
July 29th, 2014
There is no need for any new laws in order to cope with crimes committed through social media, as peers explain. The ‘tentative’ conclusion of the House of Lords communications committee, set up in June, is that the criminal ...
Zillow acquires Trulia
July 29th, 2014
With a $3.5 billion, online real estate giant Zillow will acquire rival Trulia in a, all-stock deal, Zillow announced Monday. The transaction is expected to close next year. Under the terms of the deal, Zillow will pay 0.444 shares ...
Trial of GSK-linked investigators is for August 8
July 29th, 2014
The public trial of a foreign couple linked to GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) is set for Aug. 8, a Shanghai court said on Tuesday. Earlier this month, Chinese prosecutors accused British investigator Peter Humphrey and his American wife Yu Yingzeng ...
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 ...
Shares, dollar steady ahead of key U.S. data, Fed meeting
July 29th, 2014
World stock markets remained almost unchanged on Monday while the U.S. dollar traded mostly flat against a basket of major currencies ahead of key U.S. economic reports and events this week. Wall Street ended flat as the latest deal ...
Chinese Authorities probe into Pegasus
July 29th, 2014
Pegasus Communications, a subsidiary of the American public relations firm Edelman, says that its Beijing office was visited last week by the “relevant authorities” and that it was cooperating with an investigation. No details were released about which authorities ...
