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...In May, the two sides reached a detente when Europe agreed to delay the ratcheting up of its retaliatory tariffs on clothing, bourbon, and motorcycles until December 1. But the clock is ticking....
...“You’re [then] better prepared to align your trade association memberships with the company strategy on these issues,” says Maureen Kline, head of public affairs and sustainability at Pirelli Tire North...
...America's already thinly-stretched regulators are also working from home....
...“America is open for business, more than it has ever been open for business,” he told an audience gathered near the site of a planned complex south of Milwaukee, which is expected to create more than 13,000...
...Almost 80 per cent of all US equity market purchases are now made by corporations via acquisitions or buybacks....
...Donald Trump kicked off the process of imposing tariffs on a further $200bn of imports from China, as the trade war between the two economic powers rapidly escalated, posing a challenge to US corporations...
...Young Indians are increasingly convinced that if they want to prosper, they can rely on neither governments nor corporations — in fact, on no one but themselves....
...Harley-Davidson, the biggest US maker of motorcycles, skidded deep into negative territory after its quarterly results trailed estimates, and it cut its expectations for worldwide shipments this year....
...The Chinese group is part of a $350m round of investment in GrabTaxi, which also includes China’s sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation, and Coatue Management, a US investor....
...It is rush hour on a warm Friday evening but Faizal Ali, 57, is sitting idle on the pavement in central Jakarta with no customers for his ojek, or motorcycle taxi....
...Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have enacted double-digit caps on payday loans, according to the Consumer Federation of America....
...By Joel Backaler, Author of “China Goes West” On March 22, China National Chemical Corporation (CNCC) reached an agreement with the controlling shareholders of Italian tire-maker Pirelli to move forward...
...Its flagship tyre unit is China National Tire and Rubber, which in turn controls four tyre companies including Aeolus Tyre Company....
...The expectation is that he will be successful in persuading the motorcycle maker to further unlock value....
...“The deal is good for Hankook Tire as it will provide the company with another revenue stream,” said Yim Eun-young, auto analyst at Samsung Securities....
...The thinking [among some large corporations] is that “a good taxation system is the existing one because that’s the one I understand”....
...By the middle of this year, total Chinese investment in sub-Saharan Africa was worth $150.4bn, investment into North America totalled $124bn while Europe received $104bn, according to the Heritage Foundation...
...America....
...Indeed, three intractable topographic accidents – the Amazon Jungle, the Andes Cordillera and the Darien Strait cutting South from Central and North America in Panama – atomized its population in demographic...
...The Boston-based group is facing two separate suits from the Retirees of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Health Care Trust and the Glass Dimensions Inc Profit Sharing Plan and Trust....
...Bank of America lost 1.3 per cent to $9.12 while JPMorgan Chase fell 1.2 per cent to $41.16....
...Since 2007 US corporations with large pension obligations have been big buyers of bonds at the expense of equities helping send US Treasury yields to their lowest levels since 1946....
...Any change allowing US employers to cut benefits could have consequences for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation which insures the underfunded schemes of insolvent employers....
...In fact, both fallacies have become more popular as voters tire of professional politicians....
...Bank of America and Pfizer were among the targets of a renewed push by Occupy Wall Street activists to protest against the influence of corporations on US politics....
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