Entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said that Trump’s proposed cut to corporate taxes won’t impact investment. Cuban said that competition, not tax rate, drives his investment. Other tax experts challenged the notion that cutting the corporate tax rate would spur growth. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire entrepreneur and potential presidential candidate Mark Cuban […]
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House Republicans are considering making their giant corporate tax cut temporary
Alex Wong/Getty Images The House Republican tax bill is slated to be released on Thursday. One of the remaining questions is whether the biggest cuts will be permanent or temporary. According to reports, the huge slash of the corporate tax rate will not last outside of ten years due to budgetary rules. Republican leaders’ soon-to-be-released […]
Will corporate tax cuts boost workers’ wages?
THE president’s tax promise has always been clear: he will reduce the amount middle-earners, but not rich Americans, must pay. Yet every time Donald Trump releases a plan, analysts say it does almost the opposite. The Tax Policy Centre, a think-tank, recently filled in the blanks in the latest Republican tax proposals and concluded that […]
One stock chart sums up everything that’s going on in corporate America right now (CVS)
MarketsInsider CVS, which owns pharmacies as well as operates a pharmacy benefit manager, saw its stock drop sharply on Thursday when it emerged that Amazon has been approved for wholesale pharmacy licenses for at least 12 states. Then The Wall Street Journal reported that CVS had offered to buy health-insurance company Aetna and the shares rallied. The sudden moves in […]
Measuring corporate accountability in an era of audacious bots
GUEST: We live in exciting times of unprecedented progress. Automation has a significant role in propelling human advancement, and digital transformation is the new status quo. RPA, AI, and cognitive machine learning technologies are in the hands of business leaders as they command a new digital workforce. But as we cut costs and focus on […]
Equifax Deserves the Corporate Death Penalty
Opinion: States have the power to dissolve companies that are bad actors. They should take action with Equifax. https://media.wired.com/photos/59e67229a7e14e44c164642c/master/pass/equifax_death-01.png Feed: All Latest
A huge chunk of men who rule corporate America would prefer if everyone focused less on diversity
Mad Men / Facebook Corporate America is still run by mostly white, old men. According to a new survey, they’re not too bothered about the lack of diversity. Nearly a third of the men surveyed recently by PwC would prefer if less attention was paid to diversity. Thirty-one percent of men said there is too much focus […]
It looks like the corporate credit cycle still has room to run
Thomson Reuters Where are we in the credit cycle and how long do we have before it turns? This is a question we often get asked by investors. Any serious analysis of this topic requires an understanding of the long term behaviour of interest rates, central bank policy, agency credit ratings, corporate balance sheet fundamentals […]
Amazon, even more than Google, has corporate America talking (AMZN, GOOGL, FL, MSFT)
Microsoft and then Google used to be the exemplars of companies whose ambition seemed to know no bounds. Increasingly, though, that title seems to belong to Amazon. With its latest purchase of Whole Foods, it’s started to seem like the e-commerce giant has its hands in nearly every industry out there. Other companies — and their […]
Next-generation Audi Q3 gets the corporate makeover
One thing Audi has been known for over the last few years is maintaining a consistent design language across all of its cars to ensure they all look alike. That design language has changed noticeably with the new Audi A8, and, as we’ve seen from spy photos of other Audis, that look will trickle down […]
