Futures Fall, Oil Rises As Mideast Violence Flares Up

Qatar said on Wednesday that the US and Iran had concluded indirect talks on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at ending the conflict between the two nations. “Qatar & Pakistan mediators concluded separate meetings with the US & Iranian negotiators in Doha today, with positive progress made on issues related to the Islamabad Memorandum […]

Britain To Appoint A Dedicated Tax Agent To Every Single Billionaire Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance The United Kingdom is about to discover the part of the Laffer Curve where the billionaire taxpayers simply get on a plane and go somewhere else. His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has now assigned a dedicated “compliance manager” to every billionaire it has identified with a UK tax footprint, dramatically expanding the government’s oversight of the country’s richest people, according to a new report from Bloomberg this week. HMRC is using its own records, public information and data...