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Russia wants to talk to OPEC about output cuts to bolster oil price
January 28th, 2016
Russian officials have decided they should talk to Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries about output cuts to bolster oil prices, the head of Russia’s pipeline monopoly said on Wednesday, remarks that helped spur a sharp rise in world ...
Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay and Apple avoided £1BILLION of UK tax
January 27th, 2016
A Mirror investigation has revealed the UK is missing out on huge sums as multinational firms are based in tax havens Five of the world’s biggest tech companies avoided paying £1 BILLION in UK tax last year, the Mirror ...
UK tax avoidance: Google looks ‘to pay three times more tax’ in France than in UK
January 26th, 2016
Google is said to be negotiating a tax settlement with France worth three times more than it paid the British Exchequer even though it employs thousands more staff in the UK. The UK arm generates about three times as ...
OPEC, Russia talk of oil teamwork, but Saudi talks of investment
January 26th, 2016
Senior OPEC and Russian oil industry officials stepped up vague talk on Monday of possible joint action to remedy one of the worst supply gluts in decades, while Saudi Arabia signaled its resolve to allow the market to balance ...
S.Korean antitrust agency probes Volkswagen over emissions ads
January 22nd, 2016
South Korea’s antitrust regulator is probing Volkswagen AG over its advertising claims on emissions from its cars, an official at the agency told Reuters on Friday. The Fair Trade Commission official said a probe is under way without elaborating. ...
Legal fight over the shape of the iPhone
January 21st, 2016
Tech Giants Back Samsung at Supreme Court in Apple Patent Fight A legal fight over the shape of the iPhone could have big repercussions, a tech industry trade group warns. A trade group for Google, Microsoft, and other big ...
Oil falls 2-3 percent on surplus worries, as U.S. drops toward $27
January 20th, 2016
Crude futures slumped again in Asian trade on Wednesday, with U.S. oil droppping more than 3 percent toward $27 a barrel and its lowest since 2003, on worries about global oversupply. That came after the International Energy Agency, which ...
Twitter sued by U.S. widow for giving voice to Islamic State
January 15th, 2016
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is being sued by the widow of an American killed in Jordan who accuses the social media company of giving a voice to Islamic State, adding to the pressure to crack down on online propaganda linked ...
FXCM and PFSOFT Announce New Partnership
January 11th, 2016
FXCM announced its partnership with PFSOFT, a developer of professional trading software for banks, prime brokers and retail brokers. FXCM will provide trade execution and market data to the PFSOFT Protrader multi-asset solution through FIX API. Striving to create ...
Euribor trial: 11 former Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale employees set for first court appearance over rate fixing allegations
January 11th, 2016
Nearly a dozen people accused of manipulating a key rate of lending between European banks are due to make their first appearances in court this week in the latest of several rate rigging prosecutions brought by the Serious Fraud Office. 11 former employees of Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Societe ...
