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Online retailers can be forced to collect tax, says US court

Bloomberg The US Supreme Court freed states and local governments to start collecting billions of dollars in new sales taxes from online retailers, overturning a ruling that had made much of the internet a tax-free zone and put traditional retailers at a disadvantage. News of the ruling caused shares of Internet retailers including Amazon.com Inc. and Wayfair Inc. to fall. ...

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Mubadala buys 10% stake in Egypt gasfield

Bloomberg Mubadala Petroleum on Wednesday announced that it has completed the acquisition from Italy’s Eni of a 10 percent participating interest in the offshore Shorouk Concession in Egypt, which contains the supergiant Zohr gas field. Following the completion, Eni, through its subsidiary IEOC, holds a 50 percent interest in the concession. The other partners in the concession are BP with ...

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DP World signs agreement to expand Canada port terminal

DUBAI / WAM The Port of Prince Rupert and DP World have agreed on terms of a project development plan that outlines the next phase of expansion for the DP World Prince Rupert Fairview Container Terminal. The Phase 2B expansion will increase annual throughput capacity at Can-ada’s second largest container terminal to 1.8 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), when complete ...

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