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Buy London Mansions on Russia Sanctions
April 28th, 2014
Targeted sanctions against Russians and pro-Russian Ukrainians are proving a boon to London’s real estate market. Some of the $51 billion that fled Russia in the first quarter of 2014 is headed there, with attempts by the U.K. government ...
IMF Worries That Chinese Slowdown Could Damage Sub-Saharan Economies
April 28th, 2014
Africa’s rising economic star is in danger of burning out from even a modest contraction in China’s economy as that country’s demand for natural resources decreases, warns the International Monetary Fund. After a meteoric rise for most of the ...
HMRC error leaves VCTs unable to issue shares
April 25th, 2014
Venture Capital Trusts have been hoarding investor cash after an error from HM Revenue and Customs left the vehicles afraid of issuing new shares. New legislation introduced by the Treasury was intended to prevent VCTs from abusing their tax-efficient ...
What Obama and Abe Didn’t Talk About
April 25th, 2014
As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently reminded readers, the dirtiest word an economist can call you is “Japanese.” Swedes must be stewing with regret for giving Krugman that Nobel Prize, after one of his columns likened the ...
Asia Stocks Slide as Russia’s Micex Drops on Ukraine
April 25th, 2014
Asian stocks fell, with the regional benchmark index heading toward a weekly loss. Russian shares fell a fifth day, wheat climbed and nickel pared the biggest monthly advance since 2012 as the U.S. warned Russia of an “expensive mistake” ...
Tokyo Inflation Quickens to Fastest Since 1992
April 25th, 2014
Tokyo’s consumer prices rose 2.7 percent in April from a year earlier, the biggest jump since 1992, pumped up by a sales-tax increase and a year of unprecedented stimulus from the Bank of Japan. Inflation excluding fresh food accelerated ...
HMRC doubles Gift Aid investigations
April 24th, 2014
THE NUMBER of investigations undertaken by HM Revenue & Customs into Gift Aid claims more than doubled over the past year, raising an additional £6m. Figures obtained by Top 50 firm Wilkins Kennedy show HMRC carried out 1,057 checks ...
Anglo Irish Liquidator Seeks to Sell $19 Billion in Loans
April 24th, 2014
Irish Bank Resolution Corp., formed to complete the liquidation of Anglo Irish Bank Corp., asked a U.S. bankruptcy judge to approve the sale of loans with nominal balances totaling more than $19 billion. The proposed purchasers of the U.S. ...
Insolvencies rocket amid mounting misery for firms
April 24th, 2014
SCOTTISH corporate insolvencies in the latest full quarter were up 70.6% on the same period of last year, official figures have revealed, and one leading expert predicted the number of failures could climb higher still. The figures, published yesterday ...
Delinquent IRS employees paid bonuses by the agency
April 23rd, 2014
The IRS was in damage control mode Tuesday after an audit revealed that it paid bonuses to employees who were in trouble over tax issues themselves. More than $2.8 million, plus thousands of hours of paid time-off, were doled ...
