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Report Studies Growing Trees for Profit

Governments around the world have promised billions of dollars to replant trees on millions of hectares of poor land. What is missing are the businesses to make this happen. A new report by the World Resources Institute says it wants to solve this pr

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-08-01

To finance now, and Italy's prime minister says he sees a light at the end tunnel for Europe's debt crisis, he has been in Paris for talks with the French president to discuss the crisis, but there wasn't much joy in the latest jobless figures, unemp

Students at For-Profit Colleges Are Worse Off

Students at For-Profit Colleges Are Worse Off A new study says students who attended for-profit private colleges in the United States to learn a trade saw their earnings drop. The report by the National Bureau of Economic Research said, on average, p

2011年ESL之商务英语 15 Reselling Products for Profit

15 Reselling Products for Profit GLOSSARY to stand in line to stand with many other people, one in front of another,waiting to do or receive something when only one person at a time can do orreceive that thing * We had to stand in line at the bank fo

2018年CRI Chinese SOEs see solid profit growth in 2017

Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) saw 23.5 percent profit growth last year, a contrast to the 1.7-percent in 2016. Data from the Ministry of Finance shows that combined SOE profits rose to a record-high 2.9 trillion yuan, or about 450 billion U.

专业术语-财务英语词汇U8

unsettled contract 未交收合约 unsettled order report 逾期交收报告 unsettled position 未完成的合约；未成交的买卖；未平仓 unsolicited call 主动与准客户接触 unspent ba

China's Datang Int'l Power profit down 22.78 pct in 2011

BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Datang International Power, a listed unit of China Datang, a major Chinese power producer, said Sunday its net profit fell 22.78 percent year-on-year to 1.91 billion yuan (303.2 million U.S. dollars) due to rising therma

美国国家公共电台 NPR House GOP Tax Plan Is Little Help To High-Tax States Like New Jersey

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Senate Republicans are expected to unveil their version of a tax overhaul today. Like the House bill that's already moving along, the Senate version is being touted as a way to keep more money in Americans' pockets. But for millio

China's No.2 automaker's net profit down 4.6 pct in 2011

SHANGHAI, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Dongfeng Motor Group Co., China's second largest carmaker, said Tuesday its 2011 net profit fell 4.6 percent year on year to 10.48 billion yuan (1.7 billion U.S. dollars). Sales revenue rose 7.4 percent year on year to

Cisco quarterly profit drops 7.9 percent

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cisco Systems Inc., the world 's biggest networking equipment maker, on Wednesday reported that its profit fell about 7.9 percent in the most recent quarter. In the company's fiscal 2012 first quarter ending on Oct.

Gold slips on profit taking,strong dollar

CHICAGO, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures（黄金期货） on the COMEX （纽约商品交易所） Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange ended moderately lower on Wednesday, as sharp range up move in gold on Tuesday prompted investors to ta

US Now Has Developed World's Highest Corporate Tax Rate

The United States, with the world's-largest economy, now has claimed the dubious distinction of having the industrialized world's highest corporate tax rate. Japan dropped its corporate tax rate slightly on Sunday, to just more than 38 percent. That

Obama Pushing For Corporate Tax Reform

U.S. President Barack Obama aims to cut the country's corporate tax rate from 35 to 28 percent, while eliminating dozens of tax-saving deductions American companies now enjoy. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled the tax overhaul Wednesday, t

HP quarterly profit plunges 90 percent

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) on Monday reported that its profit in the most recent quarter fell more than 90 percent with sales also declining. In the company's fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 ended Oct. 31, the company p

US Senate Extends Payroll Tax Cuts for Americans

The U.S. Senate has passed a compromise measure that extends payroll tax cuts for American workers for another two months. Lawmakers in the upper house of Congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation by a vote of 89 to 10, a day after Republicans a

新西兰英语 483 Tax Avoidance

The Supreme Court today said that two orthopaedic surgeons owe the Inland Revenue more money. They each sold their medical practice to a company but they were the boss of the company. The company then employed them to do exactly the same job and paid

新西兰英语 465 Capital Gains Tax

The Labour Party said today that if elected in November, they would bring in a Capital Gains Tax CGT on profits from selling property. For many years now, house prices have been increasing fast. If a landlord buys a house for $200,000 then sells it f

新西兰英语 187 Capital Gains Tax

The Labour Party, at their annual conference last weekend, said that they will discuss a capital gains tax. Many countries have a capital gains tax so if you buy a house then sell it at a profit, you pay tax on the profit. Some people buy houses as a

CCTV9英语新闻：Low oil prices double Cathay Pacific Airways' profit

The plunge of oil prices has helped reduce fuel costs and made airlines big winners. Cathay Pacific Airways said on Wednesday that its annual profit nearly doubled in 2015. The net profit of Hong Kong's biggest airline jumped 90% from the year before