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Employers Plan to Cut Back on Bonuses

Rebecca Greenfield | September 24, 2018

Although the economy is booming, total corporate spending on compensation has been falling for the past few years.

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Trade Tensions Push CFOs’ Outlook to Worst in a Year

Sarah Ponczek | September 20, 2018

“CFO optimism, while still strong, appears to be on the retreat amid concerns around global trade and interest rates.”

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U.S. Companies Repatriated $169.5 Billion in Second Quarter

Laura Davison & Sho Chandra | September 19, 2018

President Trump predicts that $4 trillion will return to the U.S. Few external observers expect repatriations to come anywhere close to that number.

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China Strikes $60 Billion of U.S. Goods

Enda Curran, Andrew Mayeda & Jenny Leonard | September 18, 2018

Response to new Trump tariffs announced Monday targets U.S. products ranging from meat to wheat and textiles.

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Multinationals Still Lack GILTI Guidance

Laura Davison, Lynnley Browning & Allyson Versprille | September 17, 2018

Corporate America remains “in limbo” as IRS punts on foreign tax issue.

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Prime Funds Making a Comeback

Brian Chappatta | September 17, 2018

The market for U.S. prime money market funds is still less than half its pre-floating-NAV size, but it has been growing for the longest stretch since 2009.

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IBM Under Fire for Firings

Gerrit De Vynck | September 17, 2018

The tech behemoth is being sued for age discrimination after firing more than 20,000 workers over age 40 in the past six years.

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Men Have the First, Last, and Every Other Word on Earnings Calls

Felice Maranz & Rebecca Greenfield | September 14, 2018

Few corporate executives or analysts on earnings calls are women, and those who do participate speak less than their male counterparts.

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Industry Campaigning to De-escalate Trade War

Mark Niquette | September 12, 2018

Facing higher costs for imported materials, industry groups are thinking outside the box to try to get through to the Trump administration.

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Court Ruling: ICO Covered by Securities Law

Patricia Hurtado & Ben Bain | September 11, 2018

Criminal prosecution of ICOs allegedly designed to defraud investors may have broader implications.

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Risk of Messy Brexit Mobilizes Corporate Europe and Its Bankers

Katie Linsell | September 11, 2018

Banks are rewriting the fine print on bonds, while companies warn investors of potential Brexit ramifications.

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Political Hurdles May Impede M&A Mega Deals

Dinesh Nair & Ruth David | September 10, 2018

JPMorgan expects trade wars and regulatory risks to put the damper on merger and acquisition activity.

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U.S.-Euro Junk Bond Split

Cecile Gutscher | September 06, 2018

High-yield corporate bonds are trading with higher spreads than their U.S. peers.

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Citi to Replace CFO at Year-end

Katherine Chiglinsky & Donal Griffin | September 05, 2018

Other big banks eyeing succession changes as well.

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Pfizer Estimates Brexit Costs at $100 Million

James Paton | September 04, 2018

Border delays and duplications in regulatory regimes might be the Brexit legacy for multinationals.

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U.S. Swaps Cop Apologizes for International Overreach

Ben Bain & Silla Brush | September 04, 2018

Giancarlo proposes letting U.S. customers use foreign swaps clearinghouses that haven’t registered with the CFTC.

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Argentina Lifts Rates to World-High

Andres R. Martinez | August 31, 2018

Central bank sets interest rates at 60%, while President Macri requests IMF aid to save peso.

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Apple, Oracle Dump Bonds

Molly Smith | August 31, 2018

Changing approaches to corporate cash management, driven by repatriation of overseas funds, have created a $300 billion hole in the market for short-term corporate debt.

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Floating-Rate Notes Linked to SOFR

Alexandra Harris, Paul Cohen & Rizal Tupaz | August 30, 2018

MetLife breaks ground with $1 billion bond based on LIBOR heir.

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U.S. Stressing Friday as NAFTA Deadline

Jennifer Jacobs, Josh Wingrove & Vivek Shankar | August 29, 2018

U.S. and Mexico have reached an agreement, but Canada needs to be included by Friday in order for the deal to take effect before Mexico's president takes office.

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American Companies Are Raising Prices at a Brisk Pace

Rich Miller | August 28, 2018

Good news for the Fed, bad news for consumers.

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Pension Risk Transfer Buyout Sales Top $8.2 Billion in Q2

Caroline Marwitz | August 27, 2018

LIMRA expects market will exceed $23 billion for 2018.

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LIBOR Challenger Embraced in Debut Commercial Paper Transaction

Adam Tempkin & Liz Capo McCormick | August 27, 2018

“You should expect to see additional SOFR-linked deals across a broad spectrum of issuers.”

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The Powell Doctrine

Craig Torres | August 24, 2018

Fed chief debuts at Jackson Hole, emphasizes need to evaluate real-world economic indicators as well as economic models in making interest rate decisions.

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JPMorgan Making Midsize Banking Push Abroad

Meg Waters | August 23, 2018

The company is said to be looking to expand its treasury and advisory services for midsize businesses in markets that have traditionally been dominated by local financial institutions.

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U.S. Chamber Urges Treasury to Relax Offshore Tax Refund Rules

Laura Davison & Lynnley Browning | August 21, 2018

Companies that overpaid taxes on offshore profits want flexibility in how they use those funds.

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Transfer Pricing Tax Hit on the Horizon

Lynnley Browning & Sony Kassam | August 20, 2018

Medtronic ruling might make transfer pricing—and other techniques that price transactions to lower taxes—impossible.

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Venezuela Enacts One of the Biggest Currency Devaluations Ever

Eduardo Thomson & Fabiola Zerpa | August 20, 2018

Maduro reduced the bolivar's value by 95 percent; inflation may exceed the 1 million percent already projected for 2018.

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$1.5 Trillion Is Coming to America

Annie Massa | August 17, 2018

What some top asset managers are doing to attract corporate cash as it’s repatriated.

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Trump Asks SEC to Change Cadence of Earnings Reporting

Ben Bain, Terrence Dopp, Justin Sink & Annie Massa | August 17, 2018

Presidential tweet brings to surface debate on whether quarterly reporting is helpful or harmful to the markets.

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Libor's Heir Presumptive Prepared to Take on Bank Bond Market

Maciej Onoszko | August 16, 2018

Bank and corporate bonds linked to SOFR may appear on the market in months, not years.

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Ford Fights Back Against Wall Street Calls to Cut Its Dividend

Keith Naughton | August 14, 2018

Dividends cost the company $2.4 billion annually. Analysts say that's not sustainable during restructuring; Ford CFO says it will boost stock price.

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Hilton Grand Vacations Fires CFO for Behavior Against ‘Policies’

Peter Jeffrey | August 10, 2018

Specific actions leading to the firing are unclear.

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Steel War on Turkey Is Changing Global Trade Flows

Thomas Biesheuvel & Elizabeth Burden | August 10, 2018

How Trump's latest salvo of metal tariffs will affect producers in Europe and around the world.

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How Musk Plans to Take Tesla Private

Miles Weiss | August 09, 2018

Internal stock market may enable current shareholders and Tesla employees to continue trading shares, with less volatility and less liquidity.

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Some at Fed Think Higher Rates Are Needed

Craig Torres | August 08, 2018

“It is difficult to argue that lower-than-normal rates are appropriate when unemployment is low and inflation is effectively at the Fed’s target.”

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Trump May Sell Dollars as a Weapon in the Trade War

Andrew Mayeda | August 08, 2018

U.S. currency intervention would be first since 2000 effort to prop up sliding euro.

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Speculators, Not Drug Dealers, Dominate Crypto Use

Camila Russo | August 07, 2018

Ratio of legal to illegal uses of bitcoin has reversed over the past five years.

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Blockchain Suffers Slowdown

Olga Kharif | July 31, 2018

Once seen as a corporate cure-all, blockchain-based solutions are rolling out very slowly. So far, only 1% of organizations have adopted these technologies.

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AmEx Defends FX Policies

Jenny Surane | July 30, 2018

Report says changes to exchange rates the company charged business customers for currency conversions were not disclosed to customers.

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Stockpiling Blood and Food

Emma Ross-Thomas | July 27, 2018

U.K. plans for a no-deal Brexit, including a number of moves that might have major business impacts.

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Call for Entries

Treasury & Risk | July 26, 2018

It's time to submit your treasury team's innovative projects for the 2019 Alexander Hamilton Awards. Deadline for entries: August 30, 2018.

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What’s Next in U.S. Trade Policy?

Enda Curran | July 26, 2018

What does the apparent Trump-EU trade truce mean for China?

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Mexico and Canada Optimistic on NAFTA Deal

Eric Martin & Daniela Guzman | July 25, 2018

Economy ministers from the two countries expect “common sense” to prevail this fall in NAFTA re-negotiation.

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Trump and EU’s Juncker Hope for Progress on Trade

Toluse Olorunnipa | July 25, 2018

If meeting doesn’t go well, Trump warns, the cost of a car imported from Europe will increase more than $10,000. EU threatens $20 billion in retaliatory measures.

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Fed Presidents Seek to Prevent Inverted Yield Curve

Rich Miller | July 24, 2018

Some regional bank presidents want “Powell put,” agreement to cut rates if bond yield curve inverts.

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Foreign Tech Workers Face Higher Hurdles in Visa Applications

Emily McCormick | July 18, 2018

Tech companies complain cracking down on legal immigration encourages innovation to happen elsewhere.

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Powell's ‘For Now’ Caveat a Sign Fed Rate Hikes Not on Autopilot

Craig Torres | July 17, 2018

Federal Reserve Chairman is trying to maintain flexibility to respond to changes in economic environment.

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Treasury Struggles to Keep Staff

Saleha Mohsin | July 13, 2018

U.S. Treasury Department unit at heart of trade war has seen a wave of staff exits.

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Trade War Approaches Point of No Return

Brendan Scott & Enda Curran | July 11, 2018

As trade conflict ramps up, consumers may soon face higher prices on all sorts of goods.

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