Dubai / WAM The country’s commitment to internationally agreed standards of transparency and exchange of information for taxation purposes was the crux of a workshop organised by the Ministry of Finance in collaboration with the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development. The workshop reviewed a series of issues of close relevance to tax and monetary policies developed to realign taxation …

The mystery at the center of the Michael Flynn case is why Donald Trump didn’t react sooner to warnings about Flynn’s involvement with Russia. Why didn’t Trump listen to President Obama’s caution against hiring him? Why did Trump wait 18 days before removing his national security adviser after urgent advice that Flynn could be ‘blackmailed’? We don’t have answers. But …

Emmanuel Macron’s election as French president removes the risk that one of the founding members of the European Union might seek to extricate itself from the euro. That in turn should be the signal for equity investors to take advantage of a less febrile political environment and buy European stocks. After several years of underperformance, economic growth in the euro …