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February 05, 2018

How Is Big Business Using the Trump Tax Cut? What We Know So Far

"President Donald Trump's corporate tax cuts are already having a big impact.
The main takeaway at the halfway point of earnings season is that corporations are going to make more money - lots more - as their statutory tax rate gets axed to 21 percent from 35 percent. Corporate chiefs already are making plans for the windfall, with some detailing specific investments in infrastructure or technology along with their one-time charges and benefits.
So far a record 75 percent of companies have raised their profit guidance, according to strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Taking into account the benefits of lower corporate taxes, Wall Street expects U.S. firms to increase capital expenditures by as much as 6.8 percent this year - more than five times the projected growth in 2017…" 

February 01, 2018

The Finance 202: Trump's State of the Union address isn't going to reshape

Let's be real: President Trump's State of the Union speech isn't going to reshape the Washington agenda. These addresses rarely do. And the likelihood is diminished even further when it’s delivered by a president whose daily, working persona bares such a vanishing resemblance to the one who turns up occasionally, on nights like Tuesday, to read words off of a teleprompter.

February 01, 2018

Federal Reserve Board releases scenarios for 2018 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and Dodd-Frank Act stress test exercises and issues instructions to firms participating in CCAR

Stress tests help make sure that banks will be able to lend to households and businesses even in a serious recession by ensuring that they have adequate capital to absorb losses. CCAR evaluates the capital planning practices and capital adequacy of the largest U.S. bank holding companies, and large U.S. operations of foreign firms, using the firms' planned capital actions such as dividend payments and share buybacks and issuances.

January 31, 2018

The Deal Economy Conference│ The Deal Events

The Deal Economy Conference will take place in London on Monday 26 March 2018. This conference features lively discussions of strategy and deal structure in today's ever-changing geopolitical environment, presented by The Deal, renowned for its U.S. perspective of global dealmaking.

January 31, 2018

The Global RegTech Summit│ FinTech Global Events

The Global RegTech Summit is Europe's Leading RegTech Event in 2018. The Summit will take place in London on Tuesday 22 May 2018. The Global RegTech Summit will be the highest impact RegTech event of 2018.

January 31, 2018

Budget 2018: Top 20 stocks to watch on the across these 4 sectors

The Union Budget 2018-2019 on increased spending on affordable housing, infrastructure, and rural economy along with no major changes in the direct taxation structure would be sufficient to sustain momentum in the markets, suggest experts.

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