Amazon.com Inc. forecast second-quarter profit that topped analysts' forecasts, buoyed by swelling ranks of Prime subscribers and a profitable cloud-computing division that's winning more corporate customers. The world's largest online retailer projected operating income in the current quarter of $1.1
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British opponents of Donald Trump looking forward to shouting at the U.S. president in person this summer could be disappointed. Signs point to him being kept as far away as possible from the masses when he comes. His visit on July 13 is not the full state visit initially promised by Prime Minister
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The guests are starting to arrive, but the house isn't quite ready for this party. That's the way to view a slew of recent measures to open China's $40 trillion financial industry to outsiders. This week, Beijing granted additional quotas for domestic funds to invest in overseas securities under the QDII plan, the
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Areas where the investment bank still believes it can grow globally include foreign exchange, commercial real estate and structured equity financing, Garth Ritchie, head of the investment bank, said in a memo to clients obtained by Bloomberg. The publication Global Capital first reported that Deutsche
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However, I find myself wishing that more CPAs worked in collaboration with their client's bookkeepers. I often run across CPA firms who just want to burn and churn a tax return, and are unresponsive to bookkeeper's questions. I can only assume the reason is to keep costs down, but in my opinion, this
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