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Reports suggest the Saudi Arabia’s 2017 budget will include a monthly fee for expat workers
December 22nd, 2016
Saudi Arabia’s 2017 budget will reportedly include a monthly fee for expat workers in the kingdom. Arab News cited local reports as suggesting the fee would likely be a fixed amount of around SAR800 ($213) a month. The publication ...
The Fed Lifts Interest Rates On Outlook For Firmer Growth
December 16th, 2016
The Federal Reserve announced an increase in interest rates yesterday, nudging its target rate up by 25 basis points to a 0.50%-to-0.75% range. The central bank’s revised economic projections were slightly more hawkish too. Meantime, the government yesterday reported ...
What Dow 20,000 means for stock-market investors
December 15th, 2016
What’s in a number anyway? That may be the question stock-market investors pose as the Dow Jones Industrial Average inches closer to the psychological milestone of 20,000. The Dow DJIA, +0.25% sold off on Wednesday as the Federal Open ...
FED expected to raise interest rates for the second time in 10 years
December 14th, 2016
Fed expected to raise interest rates but won’t tell market what it wants to hear The markets want to hear whether the Trump economy could jolt the Fed into a faster pace of interest rate hikes, but there’s little ...
Germany accused of strangling EU tax transparency
December 13th, 2016
A German-led group of EU states is trying to strangle plans for greater tax transparency, amid the restart of an iconic whistleblower case. Germany was accused of leading the behind-the-scenes attack on a European Commission proposal to raise transparency ...
Why Europe must end in tears
December 11th, 2016
The latest consequence of economic mismanagement in Europe was the failed attempt at constitutional reform in Italy this week. The Italian people have had enough of their government’s economic failure, and is refusing to give it more power. The ...
McDonald’s Is Moving Its International Tax Base to the U.K. Amid EU Scrutiny
December 9th, 2016
It has come under growing scrutiny from EU regulators over its tax arrangements in Luxembourg. McDonald‘s said on Thursday it would move its international tax base to the United Kingdom from Luxembourg after coming under increased scrutiny from European ...
UK Financial Services Firms pay the highest recorded tax contribution
December 8th, 2016
Total tax contribution for the sector reached £71.4 billion in the year to 31 March 2016 A 7.4% increase on the previous year’s figures The contribution is 11.5% of total UK government tax receipts The equivalent of almost a ...
Crude imports by China will probably slow by more than 60 percent in 2017
December 8th, 2016
China demand growth seen slowing as space for stockpiles fills Asia’s biggest buyer also seen reining in private refiners One of the biggest engines soaking up the world’s oil is starting to sputter. Growth in crude imports by China, the second ...
Asia Stocks Higher, Australia Bucks Negative Growth Report
December 7th, 2016
Asian shares were broadly higher Wednesday, catching a lift from gains in the U.S., as a weak Japanese yen helped exporters’ stocks on the Nikkei Stock Average. The Nikkei was recently up 0.6% in morning trade. S&P/ASX 200 was ...
