US Senate passes internet sales tax bill, faces a stiff fight ...

Hong Kong faces an unprecedented "fiscal cliff" if the Legislative Council (LegCo) does not pass the Budget for the coming fiscal year by the middle of this month, warned Chief Executive Leung Chun Ying. Flagging what he termed "serious and ...

The deal in December to avert the so-called fiscal cliff had one welcome consequence: It derailed a new farm bill, the $100 billion annual spending package that's renewed every five years and filled with subsidies for some of the U.S.'s most ...

Lots of media attention has been focused on economic crises in the United States lately from the fiscal cliff to the sequester to the debt ceiling. Pundits and politicians are concerned about what will happen to the economy as tax cuts expire or as ...

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Asta Funding, Inc. (), a receivable asset management and liquidation firm, will report its financial results for the second quarter and six months of fiscal year 2013, the period ended March 31, 2013 ...

CHICAGO, IL -- (Marketwired) -- 05/16/13 -- U.S. grappling with fiscal cliff and sequestration repercussions while Eurozone deals with austerity fall-out Stocks rise as U.S. Treasury yields sink to new lows Emerging equity markets are outperforming ...

USA, for now, rules the world. When it catches cold all countries in the world sneeze. So, anything happening to USA reverberates in the whole world. It is a phenomenon quite tasking to Obama and the USA Congress. How one would have wished that ...

Despite the VIX index hovering near a five-year low, memories of the credit crunch, eurozone debt crisis and fiscal cliff saga are all too clear. And with several worrying imbalances in the global economy and talk of quantitative easing being wound ...

The effects of the fiscal cliff settlement and the failure of Congress to come to an agreement on resolving the budget will have an effect on U.S. spending across the globe. According to the International Monetary Fund, the cut in spending by ...

The Internal Revenue Service stated on Tuesday that they will begin processing individual tax returns on Jan. 30, 2013, marking the official beginning of tax season for tax professionals. However, some returns, including those containing residential ...