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Reuters polls forecast sterling at $1.37 six months after Brexit, up from $1.32 at present. But the DUP could well scupper that rally if it triggers new elections. For now, though, currency markets appear priced for a deal being finalised next week. A setback could inflict a lot of pain. (Graphic: Sterling Brexit - reut.rs/2OdZK1C). Italy’s budget standoff with Brussels will come to a head on Monday when it submits its 2019 spending plans. Already, Italy’s combative budget plan — which proposes running budget deficits far higher than previously agreed with the EU — has driven government bond yields to their highest in four years.
The extent to which the anti-establishment government in Rome tests EU authorities’ patience will further affect bond spreads, particularly with ratings reviews from Moody’s and S&P Global due later this month, Both agencies rate martini shaker cufflinks Italy two notches above junk so any downgrade will puts the euro zone’s third largest economy at greater risk of losing investment grade status and the billions of euros of fund flows that go with it, Not that the saga ends on Monday, The EU then has a week to identify any “serious non-compliance” and two weeks to decide if it will reject the budget altogether..
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government is committed to introducing tougher sanctions against companies that foster criminal behavior in the wake of Volkswagen’s (VOWG_p.DE) diesel emissions scandal, the country’s justice minister said. In an interview published in Friday’s edition of the Handelsblatt newspaper, Katarina Barley said she had seen a pattern whereby companies try to blame individual managers for any wrongdoing. “This was very blatant in the diesel scandal, in several companies,” she added, without naming any of the companies.
Barley said individuals will in future still be responsible for any crimes they commit, “But if there is a visible structure in a company that fosters and covers up criminal behavior, there martini shaker cufflinks should be penalties for companies in the future,” she said, A coalition agreement between Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and their centre-left SPD partners signed in March included plans to ensure that companies that profit from the wrongdoing of staff members face tougher sanctions..
The agreement said that the maximum penalty for companies generating more than 100 million euros in annual revenues should be raised to 10 percent of annual sales, up from a cap of 10 million euros previously. While it is unlikely that all plans in the coalition agreement will be implemented, Barley’s comments suggest that the proposal on company sanctions could become law. Volkswagen in 2015 admitted to using illegal software to cheat emissions tests, sparking a scandal that has cost it more than $27 billion in penalties and fines.
Environmental lobby group DUH, which has been seeking bans on diesel cars in a number of German martini shaker cufflinks cities in the wake the VW scandal, told Handelsblatt that Barley, of the SPD party, was not going far enough, New legislation should require that sanctions against companies are pursued, and it should also allow companies to be sanctioned even if none of their staff members can be made personally liable, DUH managing director Juergen Resch told the paper, “Our criminal law is being hampered by the fact that only people but not companies can be punished, That is absurd,” he said..
(Advisory: Note language in paragraph 5). By David Shepardson. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department’s top antitrust lawyer said Time Warner’s general counsel threatened to “employ personal attacks” if the agency tried to block the company’s $85.4 billion merger with AT&T Inc, according to a court filing made public on Thursday. The merger, which was announced in October 2016 and closed on June 14, was opposed by President Donald Trump. The merged company includes CNN, the cable news station that is a frequent target of Trump’s ire. The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court’s approval of the deal.
In the court filing, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim denied that the government’s lawsuit was motivated by animus toward CNN, He also said that Trump’s opposition was not a factor, According to the filing, Delrahim said the exchange with the Time Warner general counsel, Paul Cappuccio, occurred during a Nov, 8, 2017, meeting that included the company’s chief executive, Jeffrey Bewkes, and Time Warner board member William Barr, a former U.S, attorney general, Delrahim said that Cappuccio stood up, “wagged his finger at me, and said that if the Antitrust Division goes through with this, the case will be ‘a sh*tshow like you’ve martini shaker cufflinks never seen,’ and that it would be like ‘Jimmy Hoffa and the firing of Jim Comey,’” referring to the missing former Teamsters president and the former FBI director fired by Trump..