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Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts

May 23, 2011

GE Joins Intel to Advise Obama as Overseas Holdings Expand

Seven publicly traded U.S. corporations represented on President Barack Obama’s advisory council for jobs and competitiveness -- including General Electric Co. (GE) and Intel Corp. (INTC) -- have devoted a growing pool of their non-U.S. earnings to investments in other countries.

As a group, multinational companies with current or former chief executive officers on Obama’s jobs council have, over the past four years, almost doubled the cumulative amounts they’ve reinvested overseas, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

February 15, 2011

American Businesses Are Not Happy With Obama’s Proposed 2012 Budget

The business community is not overjoyed about the Obama administration’s proposed 2012 fiscal budget. It gives indications that there will be more than $200 billion in higher taxes for multinational firms, banks and oil and gas companies. These are mostly old proposals that have been vehemently opposed by corporate America.