The European Union wants negotiations about rules on how foreign investors can be treated, about anti-monopoly policy and about the relationship between trade and the environment.

BBC: Key trade talks in the balance

If your adjusted gross income next year is lower than the threshold for the additional Medicare tax levels, your capital gains rate for 2013 might only be 20% (and it could even remain at 15%, depending on how the new rules end up after negotiations).

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Major firms lobby governments around the world for deregulation or for global negotiations to harmonise rules or, better yet, for self-regulation.

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