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...The drive for a law was initiated by social activists and legislators angered by Puerto Rico’s debt problems, but broadened and gained energy when Washington-based Jubilee activists joined the effort....
...One of the taskforce’s first big probes was into suspected tax evasion and money laundering at Euro Pacific Bank, based in Puerto Rico....
...When Hurricane Maria pulverised Puerto Rico in 2017, he delivered more than 3.7m meals across the stricken island — often putting the combined emergency relief of the far larger Federal Emergency Management...
...It currently runs 860 stores across the US and Puerto Rico and said on Thursday it planned to close another 27 stores this year....
...In the hour-long podcast, Mr Paulson touched on topics including his bet on Puerto Rico as a tax haven, his support for US President Donald Trump, his push for the government to privatise Fannie Mae and...
...Another Muskian intervention saw crates of his battery packs shipped to Puerto Rico last year after Hurricane Maria left thousands of people without power. In Thailand though, he misstepped....
...provisions that have now fallen due,” ISS added in a report for clients....
...said procedures to take claims were still severely disrupted in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands due to the impact of the a recent string of hurricanes....
...Weiss was seen by many in Washington and New York as a shepherd of that legislation, spending time with members of both parties to explain its workings and how the crisis in Puerto Rico could unfold if Congress...
...The results were muddied by the impact from the severe hurricanes that ravaged Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida, with all four of the department store chains claiming the storms had hurt sales in the quarter...
...To compound matters, Baxter, the largest manufacturer, has struggled to recover after Hurricane Maria battered its production facilities in Puerto Rico....
...The US government and humanitarian agencies used it to map the impact of deadly hurricanes in Florida, Puerto Rico and Texas last autumn....
...PetSmart operates about 1,500 pet stores in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico, along with more than 200 in-store dog and cat boarding facilities....
...It said that it will immediately close nearly 400 underperforming locations in the US and Puerto Rico while it restructures its debt load and strengthens its balance sheet, and plans to focus on investing...
...Puerto Rico’s latest proposal to bondholders envisaged haircuts of 19 to 40 per cent of holdings....
...For instance, some of our students discovered a longstanding provision of Puerto Rico’s Civil Code, §5178, which envisions a judicially-supervised restructuring vote that binds all creditors if a majority...
...By some counts, the total number of parking spaces in the US cover an area the size of Puerto Rico. Designers and city planners are already salivating over what they could do with this reclaimed space....
...Puerto Rico defaults [32:21 — 45:36] US markets editor Robin Wigglesworth explains how Puerto Rico got into this mess, and why getting out of it seems impossible right now....
...Puerto Rico debt earlier this year....
...Under the new agreement, Citi would issue Costco’s co-brand credit cards, while Visa would be the credit card network for the retailer in the US and Puerto Rico beginning April 2016....
...to live in Puerto Rico,” Mr Paulson said....
...Moeldoko: China’s dismaying new claims in the South China Sea (WSJ) John Paulson Calls Puerto Rico Singapore of Caribbean (Bloomberg) Sugar: Drastic measures (Financial Times) The Co-op, the bananas and...
...Paulson is, however, one of the largest shareholders in Banco Popular, the largest bank in Puerto Rico.”...
...To take advantage of the new Puerto Rican law, new immigrants must not have lived there in the previous 15 years, must spend at least 183 days in Puerto Rico each year, and prove they have substantial family...
...Rico (Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -43.64 (-0.30%) at 14,689 Topix down -4.33 (-0.36%) at 1,211 Hang Seng up +31.20 (+0.13%) at 23,210 US markets S&P 500 down -4.42...
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