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Opponents of the Robin Hood Tax are busy unplumbing the kitchen sink in order to throw it at the European Unions proposals for a financial transactions tax (FTT). You only have to look through the hyperbole, cant and hypocrisy to see why its opponents are so opposed to it. The main charges currently being thrown at the FTT (there will be more to come) are that it will hit growth, see financial trading move out of Europe, and even that pensioners will end up paying. There are some who say we should be concentrating instead on raising income tax, closing down tax havens and creating jobs (oddly, they never said that when we called for those things, but now theyre much better options!)
But the people arguing this case are often paid by precisely the financial bigwigs who will end up paying the FTT, so its not surprising that as the FTT becomes ever more likely to be implemented they are beginning to fling every argument they can get their hands on against the tax.
— Royal Philips Electronics NV has warned that its fourth quarter profits were worse than expected due to a weak European market that made it difficult to charge customers as much as it wanted to for light bulbs.
Philips, the world’s largest lighting maker, is due to report full earnings on Jan. 30.
The company said free cash flow would be euro1 billion ($1.28 billion) compared with euro1.2 billion a year ago. Sales grew by a “mid single digit” amount, but margins slipped, the company said.
Operating profits in the fourth quarter were around euro500 million at a margin of at least 7 percent of sales, Philips said. In the same period a year ago, operating profit was euro662 million at a margin of 9.1 percent.
Shares fell 6 percent to euro14.715 in early trading in Amsterdam.
“Our expected fourth quarter financial results have been affected by the weakness in Europe, which has impacted our health care business, as well as pricing in our consumer lighting business,” said Chief Executive Frans van Houten in a statement.
“We have taken measures to address our inventory situation in the lighting business, which also had an impact on earnings for the quarter,” Van Houten said.
Philips also competes with Siemens AG and General Electric Co. i
We have a brand spanking new home page. Hopefully it’s a lot easier to navigate and looks much cleaner – though that’s for users to judge (do leave some feedback below, which we’ll use with tracking stats). Yet this is just the start and I wanted to explain why we changed it and what’s ahead.
I still do occasionally get people asking: “Do you do the site from you bedroom?” Well that’s how it started back in 2003 (see history of MSE), but those days are long gone, there are 35 full time people including myself working for MoneySavingExpert.com. (if you’re wondering how, see how this site is financed)
We’re a top 100 UK website, with over 10 million unique users (different people in the UK using it) each month. And while I hope the quality of the content and research is up to scracth – the design still has somewhat of a homemade feel.
This has always been deliberate. When reworking th
Growth, Uncertainty and End-user Benefits Are Key Underlying Themes
Washington, DC, January 9, 2012— The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association which represents the $628 billion equipment finance sector, today revealed its Top 10 Equipment Acquisition Trends for 2012. Given that every year U.S. businesses, nonprofits and government agencies spend in excess of $1.2 trillion in capital goods or fixed business investment , financing more than half of those assets, these trends impact a significant portion of the U.S. economy. Growth, uncertainty and numerous end-user benefits underlie many of the trends that businesses acquiring equipment this year can expect.
ELFA President and CEO William G. Suttonsaid, “Equipment acquisition has played a critical role in driving the supply chains across all U.S. manufacturing and service sectors. We have distilled recent research data, including the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation’s 2012 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic O
This is the time of year when you are inundated with opinions on New Year’s resolutions. I have a problem with this ritual because we tend to get overwhelmed with information and give up.
Making changes to established patterns of behavior is tough. Giving yourself ten assignments for the new year is not realistic. In an effort to really have an impact, I have put together just 3 resolutions. Yes, it would be great if you would consider and implement all of them but if you pick one (any one), you will see measurable, positive changes. I am listing them in no particular order of importance, although I will admit that I feel most strongly about the first one.
The daily grist of many brokers and advisors involves stock picking, market timing and mutual fund manager picking. This is called “active management” and generally refers to efforts to beat risk adjusted benchmarks, like the S&P 500 index. The bedrock of the securities industry is based on its touted ability to add “alpha,” which is a premium over the benchmark index.
There’s a better way. The evidenc