Going into this reporting season, analysts had expected the five lenders to post their first decline in combined annual profit since 2004, but the numbers so far already indicate a better overall outcome.
Grover Norquist, an anti-tax activist who has long pushed Republican lawmakers to pledge never to raise taxes, warned in January against soaking the rich, saying such taxes "always slip down to hit the rest of us".
Graeme Littlejohn, deputy director of strategy and communication at the association, said: "China is a key market for Scotch whisky with significant potential for growth, and the recent reduction of the tariff from 10 percent to 5 percent has helped exports grow in the first half of 2018."
Guangdong province raked in 10.36 billion yuan (US.46 billion) from more than 18 million tourism trips during the recent May Day holiday earlier this month and it has recovered to more than half of last year's amount, according to local culture and traveling authorities.
Grocery delivery is a growing business for the Seattle-based retailer. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in his letter to shareholders that his company plans to continue expanding the service to more cities. In addition, Amazon?recently began offering a new Prime Pantry service that allows users to fill a box with household essentials and get it shipped to them.
Governor of the province Al Francis Bichara said the provincial board on Tuesday approved his request to declare a state of calamity, thus allowing the local government to fully mobilize all agencies and resources to respond to emergencies.
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Government documents published this week by migrant rights groups showed some past ICE operations resulted in more so-called "collateral" arrests of undocumented migrants agents happened to find, than apprehensions of targeted people.
Globally, Daimler is investing 10 billion euros (.9 billion) to expand its electric fleet in coming years. By 2022, it will offer at least one electrified alternative in each Mercedes-Benz model range.
Globally, the trend sprouted in 2014 when US-based General Electric launched its Predix platform. Germany's Siemens AG followed it up in 2016 by launching MindSphere, a cloud-based open internet of things operating system.
Goldman Sachs said China's A-share market has shown low return correlations with global equity markets and does not look expensive relative to other key markets globally in terms of price/earnings to growth.