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Giappone
EU slaps Apple with €13 billion back-tax bill owed to Ireland, plus interest
Apple has to pay up to €13 billion ($14.5 billion) — plus billions more in interest — in back taxes to Ireland after the European Union found Tuesday that the U.S. technology giant contributed almost no tax across the bloc’s 28 countries for 11 years. The ruling is a dramatic ...
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USA Giappone
Chicago lawmaker seeks crackdown on ‘Pokemon Go’ sites, including restored dunes
Invasive weeds have long threatened to erode dunes on a portion of the Chicago lakefront, but the area recently had to contend with a virtual invasion: “Pokemon Go” characters. The game sends players into the real world in search of digital monsters that appear on smartphone screens to be caught, ...
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USA Giappone
TPP foe Trump set to blast trade in trade-dependent Boeing’s backyard
Republican Donald Trump, who has made his criticism of a pending Pacific trade agreement central to his campaign, on Tuesday was to visit a Seattle suburb that is home to a large Boeing Co. plane manufacturing facility that depends heavily on sales to Asian markets. Trump’s campaign has booked the ...
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Nigeria
Naira hits 418/dollar as forex scarcity lingers
Oyetunji Abioye The naira plunged to 418 against the dollar at the parallel market on Tuesday as scarcity of foreign exchange continued to weigh on the official interbank and black market. The local currency, which closed at 414 against the greenback on Monday, traded at 415 in Lagos, 417 in ...
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Cina Russia
AstraZeneca to Pay $5.52 Million to Resolve SEC Foreign Bribery Case
U.S. regulators said on Tuesday that AstraZeneca Plc will pay $5.52 million to resolve a foreign bribery probe into improper payments by its sales and marketing staff to state-employed healthcare officials in China and Russia.
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Nigeria
CBN licenses 11 International Money Transfer Operators
In furtherance of efforts to liberalise the Foreign Exchange (FX) market and ensure adequate liquidity required by forex end users for their productive activities in the nation’s economy, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday licensed 11 newInternational Money Transfer Operators, IMTOs. The monetary initiative, which now increases the licensed ...
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Nigeria
Economy: Soludo Backs PMB On Emergency Powers
The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Charles Soludo, has expressed support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s emergency economic bill aimed at reviving the economy, a report by The Cable has said. Soludo has also proposed to the All Progressivess Congress (APC)-led federal government, a public spending of ...
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Israele
Business in Brief: Africa Israel narrowed losses in quarter but continued to bleed cash
Jerusalem Economy reports second straight quarter of profits; Leader Capital Markets sold to ex-managers; Israel Chem, drug stocks lift Tel Aviv indexes.
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Uruguay
Patricia Filluelo es la nueva gerente de Marketing de Montevideo Refrescos
Montevideo Refrescos presentó a Patricia Filluelo como la nueva gerente de Marketing de la empresa.
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Uruguay
Salto olímpico al antisemitismo en Brasil
David Bittan Obadia Colaborador Detrás del desastre en la planificación de los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro, aparece una sombra: el antisemitismo que brota de algunos deportistas, quienes no desprecian ninguna oportunidad para quedar en evidencia y sueltan lo más puro de su esencia: el odio, u...