Korean Won Headed Up, Despite Unwinding of Carry Trade

The Korean Won is up 32% since March, and 8.2% on the year. At the same time, it is 20% below is 2007 year-end level, as well as 13% weaker than the 2006 average of 955 and 15.5% weaker than the 2007 average.
Focusing only on the Won’s appreciation would probably cause some technical analysts to [...]

ABA Property Tax Deskbook Fifth Edition 1999-2000

  Oregon ChapterFifth Edition (1999-00)
Marilyn J. Harbur, Esq.Peter R. JarvisRobert T. Manicke, Esq.Bart D. Jeffress, Esq.
§ 38-000. INTRODUCTION. Oregon continues to adapt to property tax limitation provisions adopted in 1997 pursuant to Ballot Measure 50. Or Const Art XI, § 11. Measure 50 (a constitutional amendment) and its implementing legislation established a “cut and cap” [...]

Oregon Pollution Control Facility Tax Credits – 2001 Legislative Changes

Prior to changes adopted by the 2001 Oregon legislature, Oregon’s pollution control facility tax credit program allowed a credit against corporation or personal income taxes equal to 50 percent of the cost of the facility for all qualifying facilities. Absent action by the 2001 legislature, the credit program would have sunsetted on December 31, 2001. [...]

Tax and Government Incentives Promoting Sustainable Development in California

Green or sustainable building is the practice of creating healthier and more resource-efficient models of construction, renovation, operation, maintenance, and demolition. Research and experience increasingly demonstrate that when buildings are designed and operated with their life-cycle impacts in mind, they can provide great environmental, economic, and social benefits. Elements of green building include:
Energy efficiency and [...]

Karzai forced to investigate family blood feud after cousin is murdered

When Afghan killers burst into a 12-year-old girl’s bedroom and shot her brother at close range it barely warranted an investigation.
Police said that no one reported the crime. Were it not that the pair were President Karzai’s cousins — and that the murder had all the hallmarks of a revenge killing connected to a Karzai [...]

Back to Falkland Islands to get fighting fit

BRITISH Forces have been taking part in a major warfare exercise in the Falkland Islands, where hundreds of servicemen died during the 1982 conflict.
The Highlanders (4 Scots) joined the Royal Navy and RAF in a two-day operation after an “enemy invasion” on the islands, 8,000 miles from the UK, in the South Atlantic.
Argentina invaded the [...]

Stock Picks: Disney, Jabil Circuit, Liz Claiborne

Walt Disney Co. (DIS)
Standard & Poor’s Equity Research keeps buy
S&P equity analyst Tuna Amobi said in a Dec. 22 note that Disney and CBS Corp. (CBS) could be among the initial content partners for a new online TV subscription service for 2010 launch by Apple Inc. (AAPL), based on an unconfirmed Wall Street Journal story. [...]

Swiss Franc Carry Trade Strategy

September 5, 2008 by Trader Rich 
The September issue of Currency Trader Magazine was released today. Some of the highlights include:
A look at an advanced carry trade strategy involving the Swiss Franc.
The CFTC gains jurisdiction over retail forex fraud.
What will drive the forex market in Q4.
Yen crosses on the move.
U.S. dollar rockets higher, Euro tumbles.
China changes [...]

Bernanke’s Background and Near-Term US Monetary Policy

The big story of the last month in forex markets has been the possibility that the Fed could soon hike interest rates, which would upend some of most stable (and gainful) strategies currently being employed by traders. As a result, the markets will certainly scrutinize the statement that accompanies today’s conclusion of the monthly rate-setting [...]

Rudy Guede has sentence halved for Meredith Kercher murder

Rudy Guede, one of the three people convicted of killing the British student Meredith Kercher, has had his 30-year prison sentence almost halved on appeal.
Guede, 23, from the Ivory Coast, will now serve 16 years for his role in the death after a decision handed down by an Italian court in Perugia, where the murder [...]