Questions tagged [world]
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Can a contractor convert a cryptocurrency payment into money? [closed]
Suppose that an overseas customer tells a contractor that she or he cannot pay for the job via common overseas payment options — such as an online payment, money order, payment card, bank transfer — ...
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How should a receipt of a tax nomad be formatted?
I understand that the concept of a "tax nomad"; i.e, a freelance who works with a laptop and relocating to different countries gradually (say, once a year or once in two years) is becoming more ...
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Do foreign entities earning money via US marketplace platform have to pay US taxes?
I registered a one-person LLC in my country of stay (Taiwan) that I use to receive income from a US-resident online marketplace platform that connects me (offering services) to international customers ...
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Paying VAT in foreign counties
I'm planning to sell (my own) software (yearly license actually) online, worldwide, from my Europe based company, business to business only. I'm really not into any financial topics but reading about ...
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World Indexes - Variance between representation of a country's stocks and the country's proportion of world GDP
As an example, over 50% of stocks listed in the FTSE All-World Index are USA based.
(see bottom of page 3 in the index's
fact sheet) or see image below.
However, the USA only comprises of around 25% ...
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Taxation for remote workers, if the company and the residency are in different countries
If a contractor or employees works 75%-100% percent remote for a company in a country A and has his residency in a country B - what is the job-related taxation?
I know that this is too general to ...
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How has the country exposure of the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index and the FTSE All-World Index changed with time?
I’m interested in how the country exposure of the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index and the FTSE All-World Index have changed over time (if it has much at all).
The index factsheets page here ...
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How do I find an index or mutual fund? [closed]
I am thinking about investing for the first time. How can I search for a fund within a certain industry?
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How can I invest in Asian and African Markets?
With a great deal of growth happening in Asian and African markets, I would like to know what are the options for investing in these areas. I'm UK based.
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Is there more money in pockets or in banks? [closed]
In America, or the world at large, is there more money in people's pockets---i.e., not within banks or institutions, etc.---or in banks or institutions, etc? Provide evidence and reasoning.
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Explain the HSI - why do markets sometimes appear in sync and other times not?
Can someone please explain this to me: in 2006, HSI moved almost identical like indexes on the New York Stock Exchange. However, the crisis period (2007-2011) shows the deviation from the others.
My ...
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Is it safe to put pin of debit card in worldpay?
I am buying from proxybonanza.com that accept worldpay.
Then I go to this screen:
Looks like they managed to figure out that the bank is USbank without me having to tell them. In fact, they know ...
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Are bank account numbers unique?
If somebody sends me money and I write the swift code wrong, will the money go somewhere else?
I know bank account numbers are unique within a bank, but will are they unique globally?
Update: I ...
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Is there such a thing as "over diversification"?
I went to an investment advisor today, and asked him his opinion about splitting my foreign (non NIS/Israei) investments between VTI and VEU.
He said that he thinks it's "too diversified", and ...
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Is an open-sourced World Stock Index a pipe-dream?
I have noticed that many things in finance are closed or proprietary like MSCI Barra World (an index that tracks stocks globally). I sense that there may be a huge amount of work to do with such index ...
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