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Biggest Ever Saudi Overhaul Targets $100 Billion of Revenue
April 4th, 2016
Levies on expats, energy, luxury goods, sugary drinks seen Plan is to boost non-oil revenue to balance budget by 2020 The biggest economic shake-up since the founding of Saudi Arabia would accelerate subsidy cuts and impose more levies, a ...
Central Europe’s manufacturers maintain momentum despite German slowdown
April 1st, 2016
Central European manufacturing continued to grow in March as a jump in Polish factory activity managed to offset slower growth from Germany, the region’s main trade partner. The former communist countries of the European Union’s eastern wing rely on ...
India to OPEC: We’ll take that extra oil you’re pumping
March 30th, 2016
India’s got an oil problem. The country’s lightning-fast growth rate is fueling increased demand for crude. Yet India doesn’t pump much oil at home, forcing it to rely on foreign imports. India also lacks a strategic petroleum reserve, or ...
Low Oil Prices Forcing Saudi Arabia To Modernize Economy
March 28th, 2016
The collapse in oil prices is forcing Saudi Arabia to undertake some deep and fundamental changes to its economy, reforms that no amount of browbeating from organizations like the IMF could induce. A new report from The Atlantic Council finds that ...
FSMA warns the public against the activities of supposed law firms
March 24th, 2016
The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) has issued a press release to warn the public against the activities of the supposed law firms Cole & Rushton LLC and Ernst & Taylor LLP, which are offering to help victims ...
Italian police open money laundering investigation of broker linked to HSBC
March 23rd, 2016
An Italian financial broker who worked on behalf of HSBC in the Swiss town of Lugano is under investigation for possible money laundering in a probe linked to a wider tax evasion case, an Italian finance police colonel told ...
Citigroup says being investigated in Germany over dividend trades
March 23rd, 2016
Citigroup (C.N) is being investigated by German tax authorities over an equity trading strategy known as “cum-ex” or “dividend stripping,” the U.S. bank said on Tuesday. Dividend stripping involves buying a stock just before its dividend rights expire, then ...
IHS and Markit to merge, creating a global leader in critical information, analytics and solutions
March 22nd, 2016
IHS (NYSE: IHS) and Markit (NASDAQ: MRKT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which the companies will combine in an all-share merger of equals to create a global leader in critical information, analytics and solutions. Based ...
Iraq exports first natural gas shipment in its history
March 21st, 2016
Iraq has exported the first shipment of natural gas in its history, a key development for the OPEC member. The move revives a long-sought ambition by Iraq to be a gas exporter, thanks to a joint venture with Anglo-Dutch ...
Drinks makers consider legal action against sugar tax
March 21st, 2016
New tax will add 24p a litre to soft drinks with the highest sugar content and cost £1bn to implement Soft drink makers are considering taking legal action against the government over its controversial sugar tax as George Osborne’s ...
