The aim of quotation marks is to emphasize different parts of a text, to signalize direct speech, dialogues or quotations, as well as to set off titles, phrases or just single words. Quotation marks are also called inverted commas, speech marks, or quotes. Quotation marks can be used in two styles; single (â â or ') or double (â â or ), and can also appear in two different typefaces; either as so called dumb or straight quotes (' or ) or as smart quotes (â â or â â).
The five biggest oil companies earned a combined profit of $375 million per day, or a record $137 billion profit for the year, in 2011, despite reducing their oil production. In 60 seconds, these five companies earned $261,000 â more than 96 percent of American households make in one year.
An offshore company is a company that is incorporated in a foreign nation. Typically, an offshore company does not conduct most of its business in a country where it is officially based.An example of an offshore company would be a corporation that is formally headquartered in Mexico, but carries out most of the operations in the United States.ost prominently, offshore company structures are established in order to benefit from loose government regulation and low taxation. For those very reasons, a domestic company may often move offshore to become an offshore company. An offshore company is also referred to as a non-resident company.