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Brussels orders EU countries to claw back ‘illegal’ tax rulings
October 22nd, 2015
Europe’s competition chief ordered the Netherlands to recover €20-30 million in back taxes from Starbucks on Wednesday (21 October) and told Luxembourg to claim the same amount from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The move is a heavy blow to profit-shielding ...
Saudi Arabia warned financial assets may be drained within five years
October 22nd, 2015
The IMF has warned that regional economies could burn through their financial buffers within five years as they face a $700 billion deficit. The fund lowered its projection for Gulf growth to 3.3 per cent this year, down from ...
20 Reasons Why All The People That Quit Prepping After September Are Dead Wrong
October 21st, 2015
Millions of Americans were gearing up for some huge event to happen in September, but the world didn’t end and now many of them have given up entirely on prepping. Of course the truth is that some absolutely earth-shattering ...
Foreign Investors Complain About Russia’s Unpredictable Laws
October 21st, 2015
Unpredictable lawmaking is undermining Russia‘s ability to attract foreign investors, the Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FIAC) — a group of the biggest foreign companies working in Russia — told Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday. A report by financial services ...
Xi Jinping to sign Hinkley Point nuclear power deal in UK
October 21st, 2015
China‘s leader is expected to put the seal later on its contribution to what will be the first UK nuclear power plant to be built in a generation. The plant could be opened by 2025 at Hinkley Point, in ...
Negative Interest Rates Are Here
October 20th, 2015
Not so long ago, a bank was by definition a business that took deposits from customers, paid them for the use of their money, and lent the cash to other customers at a profit. But that’s not how it ...
London Wants to Become the Center of Chinese Currency Trading
October 20th, 2015
PBOC official said to view London as likely renminbi hub Euronext study expects $5 trillion of Chinese investment Three years ago, Chinese officials said U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron had “seriously damaged” relations by meeting with the Dalai Lama, the ...
US, EU open free-trade talks in Miami
October 20th, 2015
Senior negotiators on a huge transatlantic trade treaty opened new talks in Miami Monday aiming to close some differences on key issues between the United States and the European Union. The 11th round of talks on the Transatlantic Trade ...
China’s stock market is on fire. That’s not a typo
October 20th, 2015
China’s stock market is in the midst of a reverse Isaac Newton moment. What goes down, must come back up. Way up actually. The Shanghai Composite has soared 11% so far in October after its dramatic 34% plunge between June and ...
What does China own in the UK?
October 20th, 2015
China may be the world’s second-largest economy behind the US, but it has more money in the bank than any other country. Indeed three of the world’s 10 biggest sovereign wealth funds are Chinese, together holding more than $1.5tn ...
