It is a fact that U.S. stock prices are at their highest historical level. But for someone to decide whether to keep their shares in their portfolio in the new year, it will be the wrong strategy to look at how high their share prices can go. What matters to the investor is that the …
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Will the Reform of a Company’s Listing Criteria Give Healthier Stock Markets to China?
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order last November (2020) banning American investment firms from investing funds in Chinese companies located on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and working with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), forced on December 31, the NYSE to announce that it would remove (delist) the Chinese companies China Telecom, …
The Taxation of Stock Options and the Free Cost Provision of Shares to Employees respectively
Incentives for employees to achieve specific corporate objectives are either the provision to them of free shares or stock options in shares, which give them the right to buy shares of their own at a preferential price or of the parent (usually) company of the group. The tax treatment of these incentives in the EU …
The Eurozone/EU Economy for the forthcoming Decade (2021-2030)
The Eurozone & EU economy equally is expected to start recovering by the end of Q3 2021. But until then the economies of the euro area member countries will be characterized by high budget deficits in their annual government budgets, by high public debts (in some euro area member countries general government debt will exceed …
Pandemic Forces Governments to Adopt Socialist Economic Policies
The ever-increasing implementation of the monetary policy, which, due to the pandemic and its measures to deal with economic shutdowns and social isolation, in other words the continuous printing of money, is being used to cover the damage caused to economies while providing state aid to both workers and businesses (in the form of subsidies …
The Eurozone/EU Economy for the Next Decade (2021-2030)
The Eurozone & EU economy equally is expected to start recovering by the end of Q3 2021. But until then the economies of the euro area member countries will be characterized by high budget deficits in their annual government budgets, by high public debts (in some euro area member countries general government debt will exceed …
Pandemic Forces Governments to Adopt Socialist Economic Policies
The ever-increasing implementation of the monetary policy, which, due to the pandemic and its measures to deal with economic shutdowns and social isolation, in other words the continuous printing of money, is being used to cover the damage caused to economies while providing state aid to both workers and businesses (in the form of subsidies …
Success Guide for CEOs for the year 2021
What is certain is that 2020 was disastrous for both the macro-economy (country economies, country bloc economies and the global economy) and the micro-economy (businesses, companies, groups of companies, etc.). No one can accuse the Chief-Executive-Officers (CEOs) and general managers of companies and businesses in general of failing to anticipate this mess caused by the …
Blockchain Technology Completely Removes the Intermediary’s Position in one Transaction
The announcement in 2009 of a person under the pseudonym Satashi Nakamoto that he successfully created the first digital electronic money transfer platform was the dawn of a new world of transaction implementation between natural and legal persons. Blockchain technology solves a fundamental trading problem, that of the intermediary who must have the confidence of …
The greater the proportion of the population in an economy that does not have a bank account, the more difficult it is to achieve sustainable growth and social well-being
The economies that are underdeveloped and cannot optimise the development of their economy while disseminating economic growth to their entire population are those in which a large part of the population does not have a bank account and access to bank transactions. According to World Bank (data.worldbank.org/indicator) data in most Latin and Central American countries …