Particularly in down times, tax cuts can lift an economy by encouraging work, investment and business expansion.
At Calvert Investments, we come to this issue of board diversity from an investment and business case perspective.
The downside to this is that the country is increasingly protectionist and hostile to foreign investment and business.
The amount it repurchased would depend on its cash balance, the attractiveness of other investment and business opportunities, and how much the managers believed the shares were discounted compared to intrinsic value.
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Employees must "pre-clear" every personal investment and outside business activity with the firm's compliance department and Mr. Rice did so, she says.
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The UK's borders must be "as open as possible" to genuine foreign visitors and business investment, Business Secretary Vince Cable has said.
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The investment objective and business of the partnership were particularly poorly defined.
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He also advised U.S. companies doing business abroad in Latin America and Europe on corporate compliance, anti-corruption, and the risks associated with foreign investment and multinational business transactions.
After leaving Cardiff in 2007 he went on to hold senior positions at London City Airport and Sheffield City Airport before becoming a partner in an airport investment and enterprise business.
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In the last decade, he co-founded Casey Research, which analyzes big-picture trends in high-growth areas, with a staff of economists, geologists, investment strategists and business analysts that have expertise in precious metals, energy, technology and natural resources.
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"Clearly, HSBC is in investment phase in its corporate and investment banking business, " says Simon Price, a London-based analyst at JPMorgan Chase (nyse: JPM - news - people ).
Instead we all have to walk the talk: exert our own real pressures, through purchasing and investment decisions, business actions and political engagement.
The Fed noted in its statement that the U.S. job market has improved, consumer spending and business investment have increased and the housing market has strengthened.
The Tea Party sees big government as it enemy, while the amorphous Occupy Wall Street and the more focused Rebuild the Dream organization target investment bankers and big business.
The staging of the event must also form part of a more comprehensive tourism, sports development and business investment strategy demonstrating public and private sector and community support.
But, despite the slowdown, the statement also said that job hiring continued to expand at a modest rate, consumer spending and business investment had increased , and the housing sector showed signs of improvement.
Moreover, say investment bankers, most wholesale and investment-banking business is done among professionals able to look after themselves.
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Household spending and business fixed investment advanced, and the housing sector has strengthened further, but fiscal policy is restraining economic growth.
For example, a drop in Treasury yields would lower borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, helping to stimulate consumption, business investment and housing.
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Deposits, investment banking and small business lending also is on the rise.
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The issues triggered a new strategy at UBS which aims to scale down its investment banking business and instead focuses on wealth management business and its Swiss bank.
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Analysts were divided about how Mitchell's death would affect the bank's strategy of building further on its profitable investment banking business and raising the profile of its retail arm.
The central bank said "labor market conditions have deteriorated, and the available data indicate that consumer spending, business investment and industrial production have declined" since its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee last met.
To Americans who are wondering whether to trade in their old gas eaters for smaller cars, puzzling over the options for investment, business and public policy for the second decade of the energy crisis.
And while that could be the case, as business investment and relocation could be stimulated, it's not clear that it's guaranteed, particularly at the starting levels and in the international circumstances in which Scotland now finds itself.
As a company serving the cell operators, Upstream has an interest in the major operators recognizing the variance in the developing market: the company asserts that because no Apple-Android duopoly exists in emerging markets, operators can play a greater role in how they develop which would mean more investment and thus more business for Upstream.
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And it should, as he said, bolster both business investment and consumer spending.
The housing industry is rebounding and business investment appears solid, but government cutbacks have weighed on the economy and consumer attitudes have soured.
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