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...The Puerto Rican community that once dominated the neighbourhood around the sugar plant have been mostly squeezed out by ballooning prices (doubly ironic as Puerto Rico was also a site for the sugar industry...
...Success has long been paired with a commitment to support the community – not only those of Northern Manhattan and Puerto Rico (particularly in the wake of Hurricane Maria’s 2017 devastation of the island...
...The Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority is one of the island’s few municipal borrowers that did not default on senior debt over the past several years. But it still has plenty of problems....
...It could also entail “packing the states” by awarding statehood to the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and possibly the American Virgin Islands....
...From Miami to Havana, Puerto Rico to Biarritz, Cape Town to Los Angeles, local versions of Art Deco sprang up in the most desirable seaside neighbourhoods. The style has no single root....
...Microsoft managed to shift at least $39bn in US profits to Puerto Rico, where the company paid a tax rate of nearly 0 per cent....
...Tesla Sector: AUTOs / HQ: PALo alto, us Key stat: 402 miles: the range of Tesla’s latest Model S, underscoring its technological lead....
...Most aid is expected from the Colombian border town of Cúcuta, with more distributed from across the Brazilian border and from the Caribbean, perhaps the islands of Aruba or Puerto Rico....
...And total parcel revenue was up 6 per cent, reflecting trends in the domestic traffic mix. Higher volumes from e-commerce retailers and from tracked parcel business helped....
...The human toll of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico may have been far higher than official data recognises....
...The rise of e-payments in south-east Asia’s largest economy also represents a massive business opportunity — a fact not lost on some of the world’s largest tech companies and venture capital funds, which...
...Puerto Rico filed for the equivalent of bankruptcy earlier this year, under the weight of over $120bn of bond and pension obligations and having been in near-constant recession since 2006....
...Ricardo Rosselló, governor of Puerto Rico, spoke at an FT conference on his plan to sell off assets of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, known as Prepa....
...: This is a nice read on how Banco Popular’s fintech arm, Eloan, is disrupting not only Puerto Rico – an island besieged by debt and hurricanes – but also the idea of senior women, and Latina women in particular...
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...Systemic failures of our local governments would require a similar Federal response. The recently formed Federal Oversight Board to oversee Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy should be viewed as the prototype....
...Five million people in Puerto Rico are living with the virus....
...- Further, further watching: John Oliver on Puerto Rico’s debt crisis with bonus Lin-Manuel Miranda (of Hamilton fame)...
...the scenes were largely shot in Puerto Rico....
...US tax crackdown provokes foreign fury Multinationals warn of damage from inversion rules Ford’s Mexico move risks election backlash UScarmaker to invest $1.6bn in factory south of the border US roadshows...
...The tens of millions of packages generated each day account for almost two thirds of all parcel deliveries in China....
...In 2013, a Federal grand jury sentenced five people for purchasing aluminium from China, repackaging it with false invoices in Malaysia and then importing it through Puerto Rico....
...the semi-autonomous region of Iraq angers Baghdad which vows to prosecute buyers * Argentine CDS slumps below Puerto Rico | Cost of insuring against an Argentine debt default tumbles to its lowest since...
...Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela make up 80 per cent of the company’s sales, in that order, she said....
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