AT&T Takes $10 Billion Loss on Pensions, Sandy, Smartphones – Billing World

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AT&T Takes $10 Billion Loss on Pensions, Sandy, Smartphones
Billing World
AT&T says it will take a fourth-quarter hit of about $10 billion due mostly to pension obligations that were larger than expected.

Pádraig Floyd‘s insight:

Pension deficits do it again…

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Tax: Golden pensions get their shine stripped | Portugal Daily View

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Tax: Golden pensions get their shine stripped. Some high earning pensioners may lose as much as 87.5% of their state income. This results from the combination of a series of measures approved in the state budget that are …

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Wow. 87.5%… 

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Ripped-off Britons: Liebrary: Are the unemployed (a) Skivers and (b) A cause of the ballooning benefits bill? ONS and DWP figures show they are not.

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RT @RippedOffBriton: ONS & Department of Works&Pensions figures expose fibs behind govt Skiver/Striver benefits claims:- http://t.co/C71BMxA8 ;

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UK retail sales fell in December – The Guardian

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The Guardian UK retail sales fell in December The Guardian “Given the UK’s ability to grind to a halt with even a flake, the snow has come at a very brittle time for the UK economy, adding to the headwinds that it is already battling against as it…

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SIPP news

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Consolidated news on self-invested personal pensions and the surrounding financial industries and propositions that complement them (HMRC take note of pension unlocking and how pension trustees can become ex-trustees – all in #SIPPnews

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Climate change and resource scarcity may wipe out pensions industry

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New report from Anglia Ruskin University shows that actuaries, charged with risk management in the financial sector, have ignored the greatest risk of all time (RT @Suss_quatch: #Climatechange & resource scarcity may wipe out #pensions industry…

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