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Nearly 400 LSE-listed companies based in tax havens linked to UK
May 13th, 2016
Research finds 389 firms on London Stock Exchange with market capitalisation of £225bn are registered in offshore territories Almost 400 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), with a collective market capitalisation of £225bn, are based in offshore havens connected ...
Asian Shares Retreat Amid Earnings as Yen Gains; Oil, Won Drop
May 13th, 2016
Aussie pressured as CBA forecasts two more rate cuts this year Crude slips from six-month high as copper slides in Shanghai Asian stocks fell, set for a third weekly loss, as lackluster corporate earnings gave little cause for cheer ...
Exit from the MoU: What does it mean for Cyprus?
May 12th, 2016
On March 31st, 2016 the Cyprus government has officially exited the MoU with Troika after a three-year period. During this time, Cyprus has received around €7.2 billion (out of a total of €10 billion available) with a very low ...
Italy To Announce Tax Break For Investors In SMEs
May 11th, 2016
In a newspaper interview, Italy’s Minister of Finance and the Economy, Pier Carlo Padoan, has disclosed that the Government will shortly introduce a decree providing a tax break for investors in Italian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). An interview ...
Meet the new Saudi Arabia, nothing like the old Saudi Arabia
May 11th, 2016
After years of building a glut, the world’s oil industry by the end of this year is expected to stop overproducing more crude than the world can use. But analysts say one wild card in that equation is Saudi Arabia — ...
Panama Papers spur global tax tightening as second leak names more people, companies
May 10th, 2016
Details are still being sifted from the hugely anticipated second global data leak that names people, companies and tax schemes connected to offshore entities — many with familiar names. Legal or otherwise, the new cache of thousands of financial ...
China Stops Trying To Fool The World; World Is Sorry
May 10th, 2016
Something interesting has happened. China earlier this year responded to falling stock prices by borrowing a trillion dollars and spending it on commodities, boosting the prices of iron ore, oil, copper, etc., and giving the global economy a patina ...
Lifting sanctions on Iran opens up business opportunities
May 9th, 2016
Economic sanctions have cost Iran an estimated $120 billion (€105 billion) since 2012, primarily in lost oil and gas revenues. That equates to about 30 per cent of the economy of the second-largest country in the Middle East after ...
Nearly half of Europeans are in favor of voting on their EU membership
May 9th, 2016
Almost 50 percent of voters in eight big EU countries are in favor of voting on their membership, a survey has found. The results come just weeks before the UK heads to the polls for their EU referendum. According ...
A new online marketplace will match individual lawyers with clients
May 9th, 2016
There are websites to match people with food, taxis and dates, but the sharing economy has entered a new sphere with LOD now launching an online marketplace to pair individual lawyers with clients. LOD’s new online marketplace, dubbed Spoke, will allow businesses ...