Target Corp. agreed to purchase grocery-delivery startup Shipt Inc. for $550 million, stepping up its challenge to Amazon.com Inc. by speeding the rollout of same-day shipping. The all-cash deal will let Target customers order groceries and other goods online, and then have the items sent directly to
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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting has been honored with two awards in the seventh annual 2017 Best in Biz Awards. Wolters Kluwer's CCH AnswerConnect solution earned a Silver award as the “Most Innovative Service of the Year” while Karen Abramson, Global CEO
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South African state pension fund, PIC, the second-largest investor in Steinhoff, said on Wednesday it would ask for a seat in a committee investigating accounting irregularities in the South African multinational retail group. Steinhoff is in the throes of an accounting scandal that has wiped billions of
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NEW YORK — Some small business owners may pay lower taxes under the Republican tax overhaul, but accountants and consultants will want to read the fine print carefully — once the details are finally settled. And some owners may want to consider changing their corporate structure if parts of the
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(Bloomberg) — The mixture of growth, tax cuts and Trump's planned infrastructure reforms in the U.S. add more fuel to an incredibly strong fire says James Knightley, Chief International Economist at ING. He told Daybreak Europe's Markus Karlsson and Caroline Hepker that markets are likely to see a
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