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Brazilian Retailer Magazine Luiza To Compete With Amazon

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Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza has announced that it will be selling books online, which could be picked up in one of its almost 1,000 stores. The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012. Magazine Luiza shares were up 1.9 percent at R$170.31 ($43.45

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New Digital Taxes Loom On Tech Firms In Europe

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Amid the continuing drumbeat for taxes on global commerce done through digital means, the Czech government has approved a new seven percent digital tax on global Internet firms which will, as Reuters reports , be levied on revenues tied to Czech users across advertising, digital marketplaces and data sales.

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Crypto Fails To Impress For Corporate Tax Payments

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to allow businesses to pay their corporate taxes in bitcoin. During the first tax season in which crypto payments were an option for Ohio companies, only two businesses in the state actually used cryptocurrency to do so. Yet, when it comes to companies using cryptocurrency for their own payment needs, adoption remains muted.

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Overstock Is Overvalued Stock?

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In a recent column featured in Forbes , the thinking goes that online retail has managed to disrupt the lives of many a brick-and-mortar retailer. The magazine, via columnist David Trainer, said that Overstock took its place among last month’s most dangerous stocks and could in fact be the “next victim of the retail market.”.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

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But once they turned things around they took their deferred tax asset back onto their books and did three acquisition. The Bank operates five full service offices. It also operates 13 Home Loan Centers in Oregon and Idaho. They have been a regular on the American Banker Magazine's top 200 ROE bank for five years running.

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Four Ideas on Bank Retail Investment Sales

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Bank Investment Consultant magazine recently published the results of a bank/credit union investment sales benchmarking report from Kehrer Bielan Research and Consulting. The most profitable program that we measure, on a pre-tax profit as percent of revenue basis, is one that is totally outsourced. Little is the operative word here.

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How About Profits in the Branch of the Future?

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These pre-tax profit ratios are a percent of average branch deposits, and excludes indirect branch operating expense such as Deposit Operations and IT, and overhead such as Executive and Finance. Imagine holding branch managers accountable for increasing deposit and loan spreads, and generating direct pre-tax profits.