According to the AICPA’s Q1 2018 Personal Financial Satisfaction Index (PFSi). The personal financial satisfaction of Americans reached a new high because of the positive effects of lower taxes even though the stock market was brought down by extreme volatility in the first quarter of 2018. The PFSi increased 1.5 points (6.2 percent) compared to Q4 2017…
A pay deal for the chief executive of the UK house builder Persimmon, worth roughly £75 million ($104 million), has landed it at the center of a controversy. The investors of the company were furious and stopped just short of a revolt. The approval for the controversial 2017 pay package for Persimmon executives including CEO…
Increasing revenues form internet advertising propelled the profits by 37 per cent for the first quarter of the year for Google-owner Alphabet. There were fears that the revenues and profits of the search engine could be impacted by increasing costs and regulations. But the company performance allied those fears. Wall street expectations were beaten as…
Clients of the top bank in Australia who had died years ago and about whom the bank had all knowledge where charged fees, admitted the bank. It has bene years that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBAUF) had been billing dead customers for financial advice, admitted the bank at a government inquiry on Thursday. A…
Even though European Union’s top antitrust regulator, Margrethe Vestager, threatened as early as last month to break up Alphabet Inc’s Google, the attempt of the regulator to reduce some of the grip that Google has on Android-powered smartphones can prove to be more than a challenge for her. Vestager has bene fighting hard to stop…
According to a summary of the findings of four testing laboratories of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)- the global chemical weapons watchdog, published on Thursday, the findings and conclusion of the British investigations in the case of the nerve agent used in last month’s murder attempt on a former Russian spy…
Analysts are asking whether the rise and spread of the popularity and price of Bitcoin is equivalent to the spread of an infectious disease. A model that takes cues from the world of epidemiology was used to explain the pricing model for the crypto currency was developed by the analysts at Barclays Plc and noted…
American products such as cranberries, orange juice, whiskey and tobacco were targeted by the European Union leaders after the United States imposed tariff on steel and aluminum and the EU was trying to avoid the tariffs earlier this year. And the list of 106 U.S. products that was taken out by China as a retaliatory…
American farmers could become the first casualties of a tariff regimen if the Trump administration continues to impose such tariffs in a rash manner on Chinese goods, leaders of a forum for agriculture in the U.S. state of Iowa has warned late last week. “We’re in limbo. This is a very bad time for agriculture,”…
U.S. tech giant Google has claimed that compared to the amount of electricity that all of its global operations had consumed in 2017, the company’s total purchase of renewable energy for the same period was greater. It was a year ago that the company had announced that it had set policies that would allow it…
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