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Post-Brexit, Scots Reconsider Independence
Scots are trying some novel theories for legitimate ways to escape the United Kingdom-wide exit from the European Union.
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The safest banks in Europe are located in Northern and Western Europe, with Germany contributing ten of the Top 50 banks and France nine. The safest nine European banks are the same nine that lead our Global Safest Banks ranking. ...
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Adidas Favors Outside Track
Will bringing in an outsider revive the brand with fresh insight or cause it to stumble on the turns?
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Barclays Sells Down Africa Stake
UK-based Barclays has reduced its shareholding in Johannesburg-listed Barclays Africa from 62.3% to 50.1% this year and is believed to be seeking to reduce that stake further to around 20%.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
European Bond-Buying Spree Warps Markets
Blue-chip bond buys add liquidity fuel to companies already swimming in cash.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Monsanto Deal In Hand, Bayer Faces Regulators
In potentially the biggest foreign corporate takeover ever by a German company, Bayer seeks to buyMonsanto for 62 billion. Werner Bauman gets into agribusiness.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Post-Brexit, Property Prices May Yet Hold Steady
Post-Brexit, real estate dealswere supposed to decline--especially in London. Yet the market may prove more resilient than expected.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Spain’s Ortega Tops Gates In Wealth
Big profits from managing short lead times helped Amancio Ortega—Spanish business magnate, founder and chairman of the Inditex fashion group—recently pass Bill Gates’s fortune for the second time.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Tax Clampdown Looks Beyond Apple
The EU hit Apple with a tax bill, but it's not the only company in regulators' sights.McDonalds, Facebook, Google and Amazonare being called on the carpet about tax practices too.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Tory Hints At Pivot To Exports
Although Liam Fox made headlines for sayingBritish businessmen are too lazy to boost exports, less extensively reported remarks by the UK’s international trade secretaryhint at a significant change in policy.
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Can Spain Hold Steady?
<strong>Spain </strong>| Solid fundamentals and steady structural reform could be undercut by political chaos and global market turbulence.
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Eurozone Attracts Record Foreign Investment
<strong>Europe</strong> | Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Europe hit a record high in 2015 with 5,083 new cross-border projects, an increase of 14% from 2014, creating approximately 218,000 new jobs