California aims to avoid major economic shocks with its carbon cap-and-trade system slated to start in 2012, the state’s chief climate change regulator said recently, adding that the most populous US state would try to harmonise its system with any federal plan. California vaulted to the vanguard of US climate change in 2006 with an…
The financial sector in the tiny Horn of Africa nation is attracting new business as a stable country surrounded by trouble spots. “The banking sector in Djibouti has seen an explosion. Last year eight new banks, Islamic and conventional, opened their doors and are doing well. More will arrive this year,” central bank Governor Djama…
Beijing’s groans over US demands to let the yuan rise have been grand theatre, but domestic currents favouring a stronger currency are likely to prevail when Chinese leaders cool down to plot policy. China’s denunciations of US pressure have, combined with other recent tension between the two powers, fostered the view that Beijing will put…
If you have tried getting a business loan lately, especially for start-ups, you already know what I am about to tell you. If you haven’t lined up the sun, the moon, and the stars, you don’t have a chance in heaven of getting financing. You better hope for an angel. That doesn’t mean you don’t have…
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A New Zealand banker defrauded clients of $13m to fund a lavish lifestyle of prostitutes, property and wine, according to local media. Stephen Gerard Versalko, 52, was convicted of stealing NZ$17.8m from the clients of his employer, ASB Bank, and jailed for six years, the Dominion Post newspaper reported. Court officials could not be reached…
As the result of tax legislation enacted in 2001, the estate tax previously applicable to estates over $1 million for individuals and $2 million for married couples has been eliminated in 2010. Unfortunately, if Congress does not enact new legislation to modify or extend the current rules, portions of the 2001 relating to the elimination…
Some investors are faced with the prospect of a short sale, or a lender’s foreclosure. The investors in this situation have a multitude of concerns ranging from the loss of the equity invested in their property to a reduced credit rating. Unfortunately, there is often another consequence: the short sale or lender’s foreclosure can sometimes…
Malaysia is considering proposals to end its subsidy regime and phase in a new goods and services tax as it begins dismantling a four-decade race-based economic system that has deterred foreign investment. The economic regime adopted after race riots in 1969 has given a wide array of economic benefits to the 55 percent Malay population,…
Tanzania has scope to raise spending on infrastructure projects in the fiscal year starting in July against a background of higher economic growth and slowing inflation, the IMF has said. The east African nation’s economy is likely to expand by 6.2 percent in 2010 versus 5.5 percent last year, the fund said in a statement….
