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Looming Evergrande bond coupon payments intensify contagion fears

FILE PHOTO: The logo of China Evergrande is seen at outside China Evergrande Centre building in Hong Kong, China September 23, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuHONG KONG (Reuters) – As China Evergrande Group looks set to miss its third round of bond payments in three weeks, markets are shifting their focus to other indebted property developers as […]

Southwest cancels many flights, blames weather and air traffic control issues

FILE PHOTO: A Southwest Airline Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft lands at Victorville Airport in Victorville, California, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake(Reuters) – Southwest Airlines Co cancelled at least 30% of its scheduled flights on Sunday, a second straight day of heavy cancellations, data from flightaware.com flightaware.com/live/cancelled showed. Southwest declined to confirm the number […]

China Evergrande bondholders brace for Monday's coupon deadline

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Offshore bondholders of beleaguered developer China Evergrande Group were on Monday bracing for news on more than $148 million in looming bond coupon payments after the company missed two coupon deadlines last month.FILE PHOTO: An exterior view of the headquarters of China Evergrande Group in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, September 29, 2021. […]

Why investors should pay heed to the Millennial Effect

Millennials are first-generation digital natives, always connected and with constant access to information. Their spending often revolves around healthcare, wellness and leisure, with a strong focus on sustainability, as they have grown up in an era defined by climate change. This greater environmental awareness in turn drives the brands they want to be associated with. […]

What’s Delaying Vaccine Mandates?

The White House makes its vaccine pitch President Biden is headed to Chicago today, where he will make another push for companies to announce coronavirus vaccine mandates. He plans to meet with Scott Kirby of United Airlines and to visit a construction company considering a mandate, a White House official told DealBook. Throughout, the president […]

One month on, El Salvador's bitcoin use grows but headaches persist

EL SALVADOR (REUTERS) – A growing number of El Salvadorans have experimented with bitcoin since the country became the first to adopt it as legal tender last month, with a couple of million dollars sent daily by migrants using the cryptocurrency. But only a fraction of the Central American nation’s businesses have taken a bitcoin […]

U.S. banks expected to report mixed Q3 results, iffy loan outlook

(Reuters) – The largest U.S. lenders are expected to report moderately higher third-quarter profits next week as pandemic-related accounting adjustments that had doubled their earnings earlier this year taper off and business starts to return to normal.FILE PHOTO: Customers use ATMs at a Citibank branch in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of New York City, U.S. […]

Creditors of Evergrande-linked bond yet to be paid – Bloomberg News

FILE PHOTO: The logo of China Evergrande is seen at outside China Evergrande Centre building in Hong Kong, China September 23, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo(Reuters) – Holders of a dollar bond guaranteed by China Evergrande Group and one of its units are yet to receive repayment on maturity, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people […]

Mega good class bungalow buys in S'pore this year

SINGAPORE – Landed property sales in good class bungalow (GCB) areas, the most exclusive segment of Singapore’s residential market, have again come under the spotlight, with the latest sale in the Caldecott Hill GCB area by Mr Lee Hsien Yang and his wife, Mrs Lee Suet Fern. These trophy assets tend to be in hot […]

Over 260,000 firms to benefit from simpler corporate tax filing this year

SINGAPORE – Filing corporate taxes will be a quicker and simpler process this year, with the introduction of several new initiatives. More than 260,000 companies are expected to benefit from the initiatives, which include the syncing of financial year-end details and simplified tax treatment for qualifying telecommuting assets, said the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore […]