21. 10. 2016 - admin admin
Next year ends in a 7. If you’re superstitious or a little loose with statistics, that makes us due for another financial crisis. The biggest one-day stock drop in Wall Street history happened in 1987. The Asian crisis was in 1997. And the worst global meltdown since the Great Depression got rolling in 2007 with the failure of mortgage lenders Northern Rock in the U.K. and New Century Financial in the U.S.
20. 9. 2016 - admin admin
The SWIFT inter-bank messaging network plans to send daily reports to clients to help them more quickly identify unauthorized payment instructions like those used by hackers to steal $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank in February.
11. 8. 2016 - admin admin
Confirming what many of us usually joke about, a new report from the Financial Times reveals the values of significant vintage and collector cars have handily outperformed a number of top global hedge fund managers “over the past decade.”
11. 8. 2016 - admin admin
The long wait may finally be over. Since the great crash of oil in mid-2014, more than $100 billion has been raised by buyout firms and distressed-debt funds eager to scoop up energy assets on the cheap. But as the months rolled by, few opportunities cropped up as cash-starved drillers limped along with the help of their bankers.
20. 6. 2016 - admin admin
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates thinks that the company's $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn is a great transaction and that the two companies will have a lot of synergies together. Gates discusses the deal in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker in Boston.
2. 5. 2016 - admin admin
On a recent Monday in April, more than 100 executives from some of the world’s largest financial institutions gathered for a private meeting at the Times Square office of Nasdaq Inc. They weren’t there to just talk about blockchain, the new technology some predict will transform finance, but to build and experiment with the software.
23. 5. 2015 - admin admin
The OECD recently published a report comparing the tax burden on wages in the world's developed economies. One of the main measures the OECD used in the report is the "tax wedge". This is a combination of personal income taxes with both employer- and employee-paid payroll and social security taxes, minus any cash benefits received by the taxpayer. OECD calculated the average tax wedge for various family types in each of the 34 OECD countries.