The US policymakers need to engage with the country’s debt burden, which is projected to increase by the end of the decade to avoid lowering of the U.S. credit rating this year, even with positive in terms of rating latest estimates, reported by International rating agency Moody’s. The US budget deficit will shrink to 378 billion dollars in 2015 from a record 1.4 trillion USD in 2009, according to estimates of the budget committee of the US Congress. The expected the federal government to end the financial year at the end of September, with a deficit of 642 billion USD, it would be the first since 2009 in which the deficit will fall below 1 trillion USD. On September 11 last year, Moody’s announced that the maximum rating of Aaa US likely to be downgraded to AA1, if no agreement is reached by the progressive reduction of the size of the national debt.
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Goldman Sachs sold their last share of ICBC for 1.1 billion USD
One of the oldest investment banks in the world – Goldman Sachs, announced today its intention to sell shares traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with a value of 1.1 billion USD. The future deal will be for the Chinese banking institution Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). The sale by Goldman Sachs will be the last step of the investment policy of the bank in China. Before the U.S. company to buy its stake in 2006, ICBC was technically bankrupt scalded series bad credit. Once out of the exchange, however, the situation for ICBC has markedly improved, which was lined with the economic boom in the country. However, the market capitalization of 240 billion USD is still too insignificant compared to that of the leaders in the industry JP Morgan and Barclays. Goldman Sachs offered shares of ICBC at the market price in the range of 5.47 to 5.50 HKD, which is equivalent to retreat at the rate of 3% to 5.64 HKD, the report shows the company.
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Danone will expand in baby food business
The French company in the food industry Danone, which is the largest producer of yogurt in the world, continues to expand its business. Just a week after Danone SA announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire 50.1% of the Turkish bottled water company Sirma, now becomes clear that concern expands business with baby food. The French producer of food and beverages will acquire 92% of American manufacturing and marketing of organic baby food Happy Family. Transaction price is not mentioned, but according to Wall Street Journal it comes to hundreds of millions of dollars. Its completion is expected within a few months after the transaction is approved by antitrust authorities. The acquired company is the fourth largest (not considered dairy) baby food in the United States and, according to Danone has annual revenues of more than 60 million USD (46 million EUR), is expected in 2013 to account for steady growth . According to the Wall Street Journal Happy Family can quadruple its revenue within the next two years.
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Boeing Dreamliner can fly over USA again
Four months after the ban on flights due to battery problems, the US corporation Boeing launched the Dreamliner in flight again next week – at least in USA. On Monday the airline United Airlines has officially announced that from 20 May to resume domestic flights Dreamliner from Houston, Texas. From June 10th jet for long-haul flights will fly between Denver and Tokyo. On April 27th, the Ethiopian Airlines became the first airline in the world to resume operations with the Dreamliner. Japanese airline All Nippon Airways announced last week that its 17 Dreamliner-and will air again on 1st June In mid-January, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a decision to ban flights by aircraft in the U.S. for the duration of the relevant checks, and a day later the ban was joined Europe, India and Japan. Thus, all of the delivered so far 50 aircraft type Dreamliner remained on the slopes.
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Canadians have 170 billion USD in offshore countries
The tax havens are no longer the safe haven of the tax authorities – working group from Canada prepare a report for the government, stating that the citizens of the country hold 170 billion USD in 12 offshore countries. This represents about 10% of gross domestic product, calculated by the organization “Canadians for Fair Tax”. The three most popular destinations are Barbados, where there is invest funds are 59 billion USD, Cayman Islands (30 billion USD) and Luxembourg (20 billion USD). The calculations of the organization show that since 2005, the amounts of these hidden places have doubled. The issue of combating offshore areas of Canada is serious notes Ottawa Citizen, citing evidence that between April 2006 and March 2012, the country has only 44 convicted of tax evasion in offshore. Opening an account in such a zone is not illegal as long as it is not related to tax revenue from the tax authorities.
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Lego will build a factory in China
The Danish toymaker Lego announced plans to build a plant in China, where it supplies its products to the growing Asian market. The construction is expected to begin in 2014.
“This is a realization of our strategy to have production closer to our key markets to ensure the short period between order and delivery”, stated the company. They did not reveal the exact amount of the investment, but said it would be “three-digit million EUR sum”. The plant will be built in the city Dzyasin, which is located about 100 kilometers from Shanghai, as a Lego planned to be located there, and the regional distribution center in Asia. The company pointed out that in recent years, sales in Asia increased by over 50% annually.
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Gazprom offers support for Cyprus banks against the law for gas extraction
The Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has offered financial support for the restructuring of banks in Cyprus against the right to begin gas production in the exclusive economic maritime zone of the island. This scenario would allow Cyprus to abandon the introduction of a single tax on deposits to 9.9% for any agreement was reached with the European Union. According to the Cypriot TV monopoly Russian proposal that was received in the office of President Nikos Anastasiadis Cyprus late yesterday, provides “substantial control of Gazprom’s gas resources of the country”.
Citing its sources in the environment of the Cypriot President, the media say Anastasiadis not intend to condemn the plan as it wants the solution to be found within the EU. Subsequently, however, Gazprom denied information on Sigma, explaining that the initiator of the proposal was Gazprombank. Last year it was reported that the Cyprus shelf discovery of 12 prospective blocks with reserves of oil and natural gas.
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Should be implemented a tax over CO2 emissions?
Of all the regions of the world, Europe is making the most effort to implement policies against global warming. The cornerstone of the strategy of the European Union (EU) in the field – system carbon trading – seems doomed to failure. It is therefore necessary to find a good strategy for the continent and the world, says Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The main hypothesis of the human factor behind climate change is increasingly recognized and obvious. Several gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide warms the planet as their concentration in the atmosphere increases. With the expansion of the world economy and increase emissions of these gases, accelerating the pace of human-induced global warming. The most widespread greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide. Most CO2 emissions result from the burning of fossil fuels – coal, oil and natural gas – energy which global demand is growing with the growth of the world economy. As a result, we are on track to reach very dangerous levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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