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August 16, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Julius Baer Group Ltd., Switzerland's third-largest wealth manager, hired several private bankers from HSBC Holdings Plc to bolster its Latin American business, said three people with knowledge of the matter.

By Giles Broom and Jan-Henrik Foerster, Bloomberg News

5 minute read

August 11, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Chile's construction industry has prevented a slide in investment turning into a slump in the past few years amid a boom in home building. Next year will be a different story.

By Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg News

5 minute read

August 10, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Carlos Slim thinks his plan will spur on economies with more tourism, entertainment, and culture.

By Patricia Laya, Bloomberg News

10 minute read

August 09, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is slipping back into a 1980s mindset, cracking down on opposition, amassing power and locking horns with the U.S. It's "dictatorship lite," said Adam Isacson, senior associate for regional security policy at the Washington Office on Latin America.

By Michael D. McDonald, Bloomberg News

7 minute read

July 22, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Justice Department charged three Florida health care executives with allegedly carrying out a $1 billion Medicare scam involving numerous Miami-based medical providers.

By Chris Strohm and Andrew M. Harris,Bloomberg News

5 minute read

July 15, 2016 | Daily Business Review

In Chile, a country where free enterprise is almost sacrosanct, a communist mayor is shaking up the system by inspiring local governments to jump into the drugstore business and offer cut-rate prices to a populace that's grown weary of the big chain pharmacies.

By Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg News

8 minute read

July 11, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Talk about taking one for the team. In an upcoming study, the U.S. Olympic Committee, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health, is hoping to volunteer its own staffers and U.S. Olympic athletes for a study that will help researchers answer some basic questions about the Zika virus.

By Deena Shanker, Bloomberg News

7 minute read

July 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Carnival's Fathom brand of social-impact cruises needs churches and schools to fill its ship.

By Justin Bachman, Bloomberg News

8 minute read

June 30, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Two days before a potential historical default, Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla made it clear that the commonwealth won't pay bondholders even as Congress votes on a bill allowing the island to restructure its $70 billion in debt.

By Michelle Kaske, Bloomberg News

8 minute read

June 23, 2016 | Daily Business Review

In recent years, tenant demand for smoke-free living environments has led property managers to extend bans on cigarette smoking to cover marijuana. But some landlords worry that forbidding the use of medical marijuana might put them on the wrong side of fair housing law.

By Patrick Clark Bloomberg News

6 minute read