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Shares in U.S. technology giants were down slightly in premarket trading after the world’s richest nations agreed on a landmark global minimum corporate tax deal.
The Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies agreed on Saturday to back a minimum global corporate tax rate of at least 15%.
Shares of Facebook (FB.O), Amazon.com (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Google-parent Alphabet were all down between 0.3% and 0.6%.
The G7’s proposals are seen targeting technology companies that sell services remotely and attribute much of their profits to intellectual properly held in low-tax jurisdictions. read more
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