The Traderszone Network

The “Doha oil freeze deal” was a farce from the beginning.

It all started with a February 11 Hail Mary attempt by Venezuela to boost oil prices by launching a rumor that oil production would be frozen (ignoring that both Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iraq are already pumping out a record output).

VENEZUELA OIL MIN PROPOSED OPEC, NON-OPEC ‘FREEZE’ PRODUCTION AT CURRENT LEVELS: RTRS. And Saudi Arabia laughed?

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 11, 2016

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There are some things you can do to decrease your chances of being audited even further. Learn about them, so you can avoid doing them.

Grouping the performance of every single one of Main Street’s holdings gives investors a better look at the health of its investment portfolio.

Investors will have a lot to digest next week with more than 100 S&P 500 companies reporting, results but the stock market is expected to remain relatively resilient with much of the potential shock from tepid earnings already priced in.
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A new study accuses companies like Apple and Google of costing the U.S. billions in tax income.

Probably not, unless you live in one of these 13 states. Then it gets confusing.

G-20 finance officials called on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to report by July countries and jurisdictions that haven’t signed up to new international standards on tax transparency and information sharing.
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