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Malta and Gibraltar sign tax information agreement

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=138806

 

'Malta and Gibraltar have signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) which provides for a full exchange of information on tax matters.

The High Commissioner in London, Joseph Zammit Tabona, who signed for the Maltese government, said the agreement reinforces links and strengthens bilateral relations, particularly in the fields of financial services and business.

Gibraltar’s Minister with responsibility for Financial Services, Gilbert Licudi, said Malta and Gibraltar share very important social, cultural and political links. “A significant part of Gibraltar’s population are descendants of Maltese nationals which means that our heritage is intrinsically bound together. There is already an element of business activity that we share with Malta. We trust that this agreement will encourage the development of an even closer business relationship.”

 

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Clooney Defends making Coffee Commercials ...

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Read My Lips : 'Spain will not achieve Deficit Targets..'

http://seekingalpha.com/article/320859-spain-doubts-it-can-reach-deficit-targets? 

'I have been saying for a few months now that all of the periphery would miss their targets as depression took hold. However, the language in the October 2011 EU summit agreement is unforgiving for Portugal and Ireland:

We invite both countries to keep up their efforts, to stick to the agreed targets and stand ready to take any additional measure required to reach those targets.

Here’s how I put it in October:

Translation: continue fiscal austerity until you reduce your deficits significantly. If the depression this creates causes you to miss your fiscal targets, redouble your efforts under the watchful eye of the Troika.

Portugal is out making additional cuts and increasing taxes (link in Spanish). Nevertheless, Olli Rehn has already indicated that Portugal runs the risk of not making its 2011 fiscal targets (link in Portuguese). Even Spain, not under an IMF program, will miss fiscal targets.

So, it is only a matter of time before what is happening in Greecehappens at a minimum in Portugal and probably in Ireland as well. How will the Portuguese react?

-On the Troika’s Coming Occupation of the Periphery

I think Ireland is the model here. But Spain comes second. If these countries can’t make their targets, it tells you that the austerity and drip, drip monetisation approach will ultimately prove anti-growth.

Belgian newspaper De Standaard reports that the new Spanish government is fearful. My translation from Dutch below:

The new Spanish government of conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has expressed doubts about the feasibility of its budget target for the first time. It is based on outdated growth assumptions, it is said.

Spain agreed with the European Commission to reduce the budget deficit this year to 4.4 percent. But that target is based on the outdated growth prospects of the former Socialist government of José Luis Zapatero said Spanish Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro.

The Zapatero government assumed economic growth of 2.3 percent for this year. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects from Spain, however, a negative growth of 1.7 percent for this year and 0.3 percent for 2013.

Yet according to Montoro, Spain will maintain its objective of reducing the deficit as quickly as possible to under three percent.

The Spanish government will therefore among other things force heavily indebted autonomous regions to enforce budgetary discipline. They now have to present their budget proposals to the Government for approval.

The Rajoy government put forth a good week after taking office in late December it’s first austerity package. It wants to reduce spending during the first quarter of this year by 8.9 billion and plans to increase taxes to bring in some 6.2 billion euros more.

Notice Rajoy’s government did not say specifically it believes it will make this year’s target. I don’t think the Spanish will be able to get it done. Let’s see how this unfolds.'

Source: Spanje twijfelt aan begrotingsdoelstelling � De Standaard

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'A Dummy's Guide To The EU Crisis'

http://seekingalpha.com/article/321074-a-dummy-s-guide-to-the-eu-crisis-and-our-moral-hazard-rally? 

'Step 1

After joining the EU and adopting the Euro (there are EU members that did not adopt the EUR), the GIIPS issued too much debt in good times when their borrowing costs were low. Their bond yields were low because as part of the economically sound EU, their bonds were now considered virtually risk-free, because markets assumed that the EU leadership, like the US Federal government, would never allow a member state to default. Supporting the risk-free view were rules forbidding nations from taking on excessive debt (ignored even by Germany). The result was bloated public sectors and/or housing bubbles.

Stage 1: Fatal Debt Inflammation Infects The Periphery

The most common theme among the countless 2012 global macroeconomic forecasts is that the EU sovereign debt and banking crisis is the likely determinant of how 2012 goes. So it’s critical for any investor to really grasp the current situation in order to make the right moves this coming year....'

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#News ' Shares gain as Europe funding worries recede ...'

Investors Europe Shares gain as Europe funding worries recede Digg
Asian shares extended gains to fresh two-month highs on Friday as solid
euro zone sovereign debt sales and signs that Greece may be moving closer
to a vital ...
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Death by Digital Dagger - Another Brownie Bites the Dust

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16627167

'....The name Kodak has been synonymous with the world of cameras since the firm was founded by George Eastman in the 19th Century.

His vision to keep Kodak at the forefront of photography by the masses has seen its peaks and troughs.

George Eastman saw Kodak take off after pioneering roll film in 1886 - an alternative to cumbersome photographic plates normally only developed by chemists and specialists.

The opaque backing paper allowed roll film to be loaded in daylight. It is typically printed with frame number markings which can be viewed through a small red window at the rear of the camera.

It allowed people to carry around films without their exposure to daylight affecting their use.....'

 

 

 

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‘Maths PhD not enough to work out bank fees’

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/banking/article3288613.ece?CMP=EMCeb1

 

“Exorbitant” bank overdraft charges are so complex that even a postgraduate maths student could not work them out, a study has claimed.

Which? asked customers to work out the overdraft charges on a range of mock bank statements and found that not one respondent was able to calculate all the fees correctly, including a maths PhD student. The 12 respondents managed to get only seven of forty-eight calculations right between them.

The way in which unauthorised overdraft penalties are applied varies greatly between banks. Which? found the highest fees to be from First Direct and its parent HSBC, at £150 a month. This would apply to customers with the First Direct 1st Account and HSBC Bank Account who were overdrawn for 21 days in a row and made 12 payments while in the red. Barclays’ fee for a customer in the same situation is £66.

Nationwide Building Society’s FlexAccount had the highest charge for customers overdrawn for a short period, at £50. This would apply if a customer was overdrawn for two days and made one payment while overdrawn. The Halifax Reward Account would charge the same customer £10.

Which? also highlighted the impact of daily unauthorised overdraft charges, which are as much as £6 a day in the case of Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest. These equate to an annual interest rate of 2,190 per cent on a £100 overdraft.

Banks are required to publish examples of their charges in six common scenarios on their websites. But annual statements detailing all charges, text message alerts and buffer zones may not be introduced until March 2013.

Peter Vicary-Smith, the chief executive of Which?, said: “While the Government has announced reforms to tackle unfair overdraft charges, they simply don’t go far enough.

‘It’s extremely disappointing to find that bank charges are still too high, too complex and impossible to compare.”

 

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China ' Economic growth slowest in two years'

http://www.cdeclips.com/en/business/fullstory.html?id=71603

'BEIJING / SHANGHAI - The economy, buffeted by weaker export demand and cooling real estate investment, grew at its slowest pace in more than two years, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Analysts predict that the latest figures may prompt the government to introduce stimulus policies.

Full-year GDP growth was 9.2 percent. But, crucially, GDP growth was 8.9 percent for the October-to-December period from a year earlier. This was the slowest quarterly increase since the second quarter of 2009, following the global financial crisis.

GDP growth in 2010 was 10.4 percent, according to the NBS....'

 

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Lehman V.2 ? : 'Euro crisis threat ‘worse than Lehman'’ Times

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/markets/article3290280.ece

 

'0720 Sam Fleming, Economics Editor, reports: The euro crisis is a greater threat to developing economies than the crash of Lehman Brothers, the World Bank has warned. In its Global Economic Prospects report for 2012, the Bank lowers growth forecasts for developing nations to 5.4 per cent and for wealthy nations to 1.4 per cent.

It urged developing countries to “prepare for further shocks while there is still time”, amid deep concern about the potential for the euro crisis to worsen further and spill worldwide. The euro area is predicted to suffer a 0.3 per cent contraction this year, following growth of 1.6 per cent in 2011. Growth in China will cool to 8.4 per cent from 9.1 per cent.

Developing nations have less room for manoeuvre now than they did in the slump of 2008-09, leaving them exposed to developments in the single currency region, it explained. The Washington-based lender said that capital flows into developing countries had already weakened amid a retreat by global investors. In the second half of 2011 flows tumbled to $170 billion (£110 billion), it said, just over half the level of a year earlier.

The World Bank fears that if the crisis is not successfully contained, “the world could be thrown into a recession as large or even larger than that of 2008-09”. '

 

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