Hints and tips:
...The furore surrounding Philipp Hildebrand marks a high point in a long campaign against the embattled Swiss central banker by a leading figure on the country’s far right....
...for failing to detect matters in time....
...“My assessment of the tax agreements is positive, they mark important milestones for the Swiss financial centre,” said Patrick Odier, chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association and the senior partner in Lombard...
...Additional reporting by Vanessa Houlder in London and Haig Simonian in Zurich...
...to mark the end of the story....
...To delay matters they have been calling for referendums in two of the three localities involved, potentially holding up the vote on rezoning in the cantonal parliament by about six months....
...The move marks a major escalation in the war of words between Bern and Washington over US demands that UBS hand over names of up to 52,000 US taxpayers holding offshore accounts in Switzerland....
...Additional reporting by Haig Simonian in Zurich and Thomas Escritt in Budapest...
...“These announcements mark a fundamental change and an important moment in the history of international tax co-operation …this is an extremely important breakthrough,” proclaimed Angel Gurría, secretary-general...
...resolution of this matter”....
...Since markets have plunged and in many cases frozen, banks and insurers have had to write down hundreds of billions of dollars in the value of their holdings, hitting profits and undermining capital reserves...
...“The time has come for us to base our system of mutual legal assistance and administrative assistance in tax matters on a new foundation,” he said in his traditional national day speech to the people....
...specific matters....
..., Kerin Hope in Sofia, Mark Mulligan in Madrid, John Murray Brown in Dublin, Haig Simonian in Zurich, Michael Steen in Amsterdam, Helen Warrell in Brussels and Peter Wise in Lisbon...
...The idea made its mark at last year’s Rolling Stones concert, where 60,000 fans attended, but brought only 1,200 cars....
...Austrian executive to a leading multinational in a matter of months....
...The elevation of Mr Schwan marks the second promotion of a little known Austrian executive to a leading multinational in a matter of months....
...Rents have risen roughly in line with inflation while the cost of the average property in the UK jumped by 54 per cent from December 2002 to December 2006, with the average home now costing £186,035, according...
...In December 2005 the ECJ ruled in the Marks & Spencer case that relief should be available for cross-border losses where they are unrelievable in their country of origin....
...The survey awards high marks to Sydney, Auckland and Vancouver (9th, 5th and 3rd respectively) – the only non-European entries in the top 10....
...s not the top line [that matters] but the bottom line.?...
..."Paine Webber was as familiar as Merrill Lynch or Morgan Stanley in US retail broking. But who'd heard of UBS?" asks Mark Branson, the bank's chief communications officer....
...However, he said the Appeals Court had not raised issues of principle, and the matter could be solved at relatively little additional expense....
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