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Corporations report 1st quarter earnings

Thursday, April 19, 2012
Big banks and other companies are reporting their earnings for the first three months of the year. What do they mean for the year ahead?
Posted In: Earnings, stock, corporations
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New plan to be outlined for U.S. corporate tax code

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The Obama administration today will outline a broad overhaul of the nation's corporate tax code that will lower the tax rate that businesses pay, but could increase to amount of tax revenue heading to Washington.
Posted In: corporate, corporate tax, corporations, Obama

Corporate tax hits 40-year low

Friday, February 3, 2012
Thanks to “bonus depreciation,” corporations paid the feds only 12.1 percent of their profits in taxes in 2011.
Posted In: Corporate Tax Cuts, Taxes, corporations

The best corporate spin of the year

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
It seems that corporations always revert to a special kind of jargon when it comes to bad news.
Posted In: corporations, job cuts
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A coming credit crunch?

Tuesday, December 27, 2011
We talk a lot about the stock market, but the real lifeblood of U.S. companies is the corporate bond market, which is twice as large.
Posted In: bonds, corporations

Pencil pushers: The oldest corporate rivalry?

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Even in this day and age of keyboards, two top pencil manufacturers are waging war, according to this Wall Street Journal article. German companies...
Posted In: competition, corporations, not news, pencils

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