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British Parliament

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Type: Organization

Name: British Parliament

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 2 reports

JC Penney Company Inc

J.C. Penney Reports Its Earnings, Amazon Faces British Parliament, and 3 More Hot Stocks

J.C. Penney ( NYSE:JCP ): Hardly surprisingly, J.C. Penney scored two narrow misses on its earnings and revenue for the quarter, in results that were announced after the bell on Wednesday. EPS of -$1.31 missed by $0.35, while revenues of $2.64 billion ... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - May 17 2013]

Entities: JC Penney Company Inc, British Parliament, Stocks

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

House of Commons of the United Kingdom

Excessive drinking among British MPs causes concern

Recent poll for Alcohol Concern revealed that 26 percent of British MPs were increasingly alarmed by 'unhealthy' drinking culture in the UK Parliament.Of the 150 MPs who responded to the poll, a quarter thought their colleagues engaged in heavy drinking ... [Published Voice of Russia - May 17 2013]

Entities: House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Alcohol, Westminster

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Google And Several Other Tech Heavyweights Might Have Tax Problems

A small piece of news that went unnoticed yesterday was a report from Reuters that Google (GOOG) may be in trouble with U.K. tax authorities. The issue is not new, and similar stories have been in the news for some time now. The issue at hand is legal ... [Published Seeking Alpha - May 17 2013]

Entities: Google Inc, Taxes, British Parliament, tax avoidance

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Jamie Dimon

Friday’s Mid-Day Movers: 3 Stories Driving Markets

The major stocks were trading higher Friday after an encouraging report on the overall economic activity. As of 12 p.m.: DIJA: +0.39% to 15293.31 S&P 500: +0.45% to 1657.97 NASDAQ: +0.48% to 3481.72 Gold: -2.64% to 72.16 Oil: +0.45% to 22.26 U.S. ... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - May 17 2013]

Entities: Consumer Sentiment, Luxemburg (Luxembourg), British Parliament, Jamie Dimon, Google Inc

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

British Parliament

UK Parliament calls for evidence on prisoner voting

A joint committee of MPs and peers has issued a call for evidence on the UK Government's legislative options on the right of prisoners to vote.The draft Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill was published by the UK Government in response to a deadline set ... [Published Journal of the Law Society of Scotland - May 17 2013]

Entities: British Parliament, UK Government, United Kingdom

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 3 reports

Google Inc

Google could land up in the Tower of London

A committee of the House of Commons summoned a Google executive to give testimony again today and raised the possibility that the corporation might find itself in contempt of parliament.The Public Accounts Committee is investigating why multinational ... [Published TG Daily - May 16 2013]

Entities: Google Inc, Margaret Hodge, United Kingdom, British Parliament

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

Referendum bill on UK membership of EU

The British Parliament is to consider a bill paving the way for a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.Eurosceptic James Wharton (Conservative) is to put forward a bill outlining the terms of a referendum to be held by 2017.Mr Wharton's ... [Published Radio New Zealand - May 16 2013]

Entities: Referendum, European Union, United Kingdom

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

New benchmark

Changes just passed by the UK parliament mean that, for the first time, applicants for the post of England’s top judge must complete an 18-page application form, endure an interview and write an essay on a subject yet to be decided. Thankfully, those ... [Published The Scotsman - May 17 2013]

Entities: Scotland, Thomas Crooks, Polymath, judges

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Moving the Mountain

Edmund Burke once told the British Parliament that fiction lags after truth. He said so while trying to make members sympathize with discontented American colonists in 1775. Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini tweaks Burke's aphorism: he sees fiction ... [Published Time - May 16 2013]

Entities: Riverhead Books, Khaled Hosseini, Edmund Burke, British Parliament

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Elections at Gibraltar UK Parliament Group

In a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Gibraltar Group (APPGG) held on Monday, a number of officers were elected.The Chairman is Jim Dobbin a Labour MP, Vice-Chairs are Simon Hughes a Liberal Democrat MP, David Crausby a Labour MP, Andrew Rosindell ... [Published Gibraltar Chronicle - May 16 2013]

Entities: Gibraltar, British Parliament, David Crausby, Jim Dobbin

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Europe Seen Mixed on Poor Growth Data

European shares are expected to open to choppy trade on Thursday after euro zone growth figures showed that the 17-nation bloc is in its sixth quarter of contraction.The FTSE is called up 1 point at 6,694, the German DAX down 11 points at 8,351 and the ... [Published CNBC - May 16 2013]

Entities: Eurozone, François Hollande, Bovis Homes Group PLC, Referendum, Gross Domestic Product

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Sri Lanka: UK Deputy PMs awareness not on genocide

When Liberal Democratic MP, Simon Hughes questioned UK Prime Ministers decision to participate Sri Lanka CHOGM, the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, replied in the British Parliament on Wednesday, We are all aware that the decision [] is controversial, ... [Published TamilNet Newswire - May 16 2013]

Entities: Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Simon Hughes, British Parliament, Nick Clegg

Quotes

Her performance did not impress Margaret Hodge who told Homer "I think your judgement belies common sense. We don't trust your judgement. I think your staff are being bamboozled."

Google: Evil is as Evil does. [Published TelecomTV - May 17 2013]

In this regard, Chief executive Eric Appleby said: "If a quarter of employees reported an unhealthy drinking culture in any other organisation it would provoke immediate action by bosses. Surely it's time for Parliament to rethink its drinking culture and lead by example."

Excessive drinking among British MPs causes concern [Published Voice of Russia - May 17 2013]

...which was also questioned by the U KU K parliament, said there was a gray area on promoting products and concluding sales in Britain, which would, "most likely, create a taxable presence for a company in London." According to the U K parliament's Public Accounts Committee, Google has generated $18 billion in revenues in the U K from 2006 to 2011, but paid only...

Google And Several Other Tech Heavyweights Might Have Tax Problems [Published Seeking Alpha - May 17 2013]

Justin Bowden, GMB National Officer, said "GMB will force the companies to apologise and compensate those they blacklisted. GMB is also calling to account all the managers and the human resources professionals who organized the whole thing for 20 years. That is the reason for this protest."

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Failure to Tell Voters of Corruption Lowers the... [Published PR Newswire - Oct 25 2012]