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...Corporation tax is a tax on investment not on shareholders, corporation tax revenue should be reduced to zero....
...The Ryder Cup, the bi-annual golf tournament between the USA and Europe, has been postponed from September until next year....
...Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia’s finance minister, said the funds would be distributed through the newly created Washington-backed International Development Finance Corporation....
...Musical instrument maker Yamaha Corporation slid 11 per cent on lower first-half earnings. Honda shares jumped more than 5 per cent on an improved profit forecast....
...Musical instrument maker Yamaha Corporation slid 8 per cent on lower first-half earnings, while Honda shares jumped more than 5 per cent on an improved profit forecast....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Sony, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, KDDI, Honda Motor, Power Grid Corporation of India, Sanrio and Yamaha....
...General Motors said in January that it would invest at least $1bn in US factories, and create or retain about 7,000 jobs....
...In May, Yamaha Motor became the first company to secure permission to fly a crop-spraying drone in the US that resembles a helicopter and is called RMax....
...The big four car manufacturers in Brazil – Fiat, Volkswagen, General Motors and Ford – won a reprieve in 2011 from competition from cheap Asian imports....
...Procter & Gamble, IBM, General Electric, General Motors, United Technologies, Hewlett-Packard and FedEx are all the children of hard times. That has not happened this time....
...Of these, industry experts say there have been fewer “mega-bankruptcies” of the size of General Motors and Lehman than many had expected at the start of the crisis....
...It is a bit unfair – Yamaha Corporation now owns only 15 per cent of Yamaha Motor, which makes about half of these products – but the Onion could have added unmanned helicoptors, health supplements, and...
...Are business schools providing corporations with the advice they need on strategy? Are MBA students fit for purpose?...
...Under the new law, Nissan USA, for example, would pay a 10 per cent withholding tax on interest paid to any part of the vehicle group....
...The US territory lies almost 900km away, two days on a small launch. weighed down by several drums of petrol and powered by four Yamaha 75 horsepower outboard motors. bolted to the stern....
...“A corporation as big as this one has to have priorities. We can't do everything.”...
...The BBC's difficulties coincided with embarrassing editorial failings and resignations at the New York Times, USA Today and CBS News....
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