Category: Financial

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Hayden Bowles, a 22-year-old e-commerce influencer and landlord from Minnesota, was driving on the highway in Puerto Rico on Saturday when he recorded a video about the storm heading toward the island. “Two years ago I moved two of my companies down to Puerto Rico for tax purposes,” he told his 125,000 TikTok followers, referring to a law that allows newcomers to pay no taxes on capital gains if they live there for more than half the year . “Many people hate me for it. But check this out: We got some light rain.”

The “light rain” was the outer bands of Hurricane Fiona, which dumped as much as 32 inches of rain and knocked out power throughout the territory still recovering from 2017’s Maria, the worst storm in its modern history. Bowles was undeterred. “This is a

The Union Bancaire Privee (UBP) sign is seen at one of its branch offices in Zurich, Switzerland November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

HONG KONG, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Swiss private bank Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) is back in Chinese markets, its chief investment officer said, making its way back to the world’s second-largest economy after withdrawing last year.

UBP has more than $150 billion of assets. It returned to China in August after having exited all positions in Chinese equities and credit by the third quarter of 2021, Norman Villamin, CIO of wealth management, told Reuters.

“We went from zero to neutral,” Villamin said.

While many institutional investors have reduced exposure to China since 2019 amid a regulatory crackdown on tech giants, a deterioration in Sino-US relations and strict zero-COVID policies, UBP

LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – New York remains far and away the world’s most favorite financial centre, with London still second and Singapore overtaking Hong Kong to come in third, latest rankings from the Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI) showed on Thursday.

Paris returned to the top 10 to replace Tokyo, but Moscow sank 22 places to 73rd as Western countries severed ties with the capital after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, GFCI said.

GFCI, compiled by Z/Yen, a City of London think tank, and the China Development Institute, rated 119 centers using 66,121 assessments from 11,038 financial professionals, and quantitative data.

New York has held the top position among global financial centers ranked by GFCI for four years, overtaking London.

“London’s second position looks secure

Five of the six members of the board — with chairman Richard Freedman absent for the vote — supported the measure.

The plan calls for retrofitting “underutilized” properties on Pacific Street, and will include a year-round beer garden, food truck lot, German beer hall, coffee shop, social co-working space, pilot brewery and tasting room and event space.

The proposal also mentions creating “affordable retail opportunities by building baseline infrastructure required for future prospective retail tenants.”

Stamford was awarded the money through a partnership between the city and Scrap Works LLC,