Opinion: Trump-Ryan tax plan will encourage more corporate offshore tax avoidance
Shifting to a territorial tax is the wrong move American companies have sheltered about $2.6 trillion in profits overseas to lessen their tax bill. These are the ones with the largest amounts. One of the big flaws in the U.S. corporate income tax is that it encourages companies to shift revenue, profit, operations, investment and […]
Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL review: Android phones done right
The Pixel 2 XL is the best representation of Google’s Android you can buy. When Google (GOOG, GOOGL) launched its Pixel and Pixel XL last year, the search giant proved that it could create hardware that was every bit as good as Samsung’s and Apple’s offerings. A year later, Google is back with the appropriately named Pixel 2 ($649) […]
Samsung North America CEO believes we’ll soon talk to all of our appliances
Samsung (SSNLF) wants you to talk to your phone more. Not in the traditional sense of calling someone, but rather by chatting directly with your handset via its Bixby voice assistant. Launched on the company’s Galaxy S8, Bixby got off to a rough start. It lacked voice recognition out of the box and wouldn’t gain the feature until months […]
Inside the Amazon company that’s even bigger than Amazon.com
Everybody knows what “the cloud” is, right? It’s, like, internet storage or something? Sure. Yeah. I wanted to go a little deeper. I wanted to know exactly what it is, where it is, who owns it, who runs it, and how it works. So I did a little travel, conducted some interviews—and last Sunday, “CBS […]
Disappearing Bank Jobs Won’t Be Coming Back, Nordea CEO Says
The CEO predicts there’ll be half as many bankers in 10 years Nordea says it’s leading a mass industry metamorphosis The 6,000 job cuts announced last week at Nordea Bank AB are just a down payment for an industry facing radical overhaul, says Chief Executive Officer Casper von Koskull. “If somebody says, where are we, or where […]
JPMorgan Asset Doesn’t Think Much of Taiwan’s Stock Rally
JPMorgan Asset Doesn’t Think Much of Taiwan’s Stock Rally Outside of megacap Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Taiwan’s equity universe looks increasingly unappealing to Howard Wang. Wang, who oversees JPMorgan Asset Management’s Greater China fund, has cut its Taiwan holdings to 18 percent of the total from 25 percent two years ago, even as the island’s […]
There are Real Opportunities for Huge Profits in Mobile Gaming –If You Are Willing to Seek Out the Pokémon
Just when you might think that the video and mobile game space has lost its mojo, along comes a Candy Crush or Pokémon Go game that sends its developer’s stock soaring. Together, those two mobile game properties managed to generate a massive $2.5 billion in revenue and made a lot of investors wealthy. And there […]
Small Medical Wonders Hold Promise for Big Profits
Before we discuss this major technology shift, we need to add an important footnote: the company we discuss, Imagin Medical Inc. (CSE: IME OTC: IMEXF), just announced approval of human testing for their product. See the news release:(1) We add this note because the news is not widely known and puts the company at a completely […]
Gold and Gold-Copper-Silver Values Are Looking Prime For The Picking
Here’s something all investors looking at gold and gold opportunities should know: The gold mining industry is seriously depleting its reserves, not finding new deposits fast enough to keep up, and could now be on the verge of the most profitable turning point in decades. The climate for gold is looking stronger as world tensions […]