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The House-passed bills let a BDS$5 million investment buy permanent residence. Citizenship still requires time on the island and a minister’s signature. Barbados has moved one step closer to a formal investor residency regime. On October 27, 2026, the House of Assembly passed the Immigration Bill, 2026, and its companion,...

Average pay by state now spans a gap of $14.41 an hour among the 50 states. Private-sector workers in Washington State averaged $43.93 an hour in August 2026, the highest of any state, while those in Mississippi averaged $29.52, the lowest. The District of Columbia sits above both at $58.70,...

The number of American households earning at least $1 million a year and renting their homes rose 229 percent between the Census Bureau’s 2016-2020 and 2020-2024 survey periods, reaching about 18,400. Millionaire renters grew faster than millionaire homeowners, whose ranks rose 193 percent over the same span. The analysis, built...

Trian Fund Management, the investment firm run by Nelson Peltz, has offered $7.35 a share in cash for the Wendy's stock it does not already own, a proposal that values the burger chain at about $1.4 billion. Trian and its affiliates hold about 16.3% of the company. The price is...

Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, and her husband, Robert, are giving more than 2 million SpaceX shares to children through Trump Accounts, the federal savings accounts created by last year's tax and spending law. The first shares are moving into escrow now and are due to...

Kylie Jenner has taken her Holmby Hills estate at 145 North Mapleton Drive off the market, ending a ten-month attempt to sell one of the most closely watched trophy homes in Los Angeles. No buyer emerged. The seven-bedroom compound was listed in December 2025 at $48 million; by the end...

The three men behind South Africa’s largest private fortunes are 76, 77 and 81. Their sons stand to inherit very different things, and only one of them is being groomed in public. South Africa’s three largest fortunes belong to men born before 1951. Johann Rupert, chairman of Swiss luxury group...

Michal Strnad, the Czech billionaire who controls defense group Czechoslovak Group, has made an unsolicited €30 billion all-cash offer for Delfin, the Luxembourg-based holding company of the late Leonardo Del Vecchio. Delfin is the largest shareholder in EssilorLuxottica, the eyewear group behind Ray-Ban, with a stake of nearly one-third. It...

Seplat Energy Profit Nearly Triples to $260 Million as Debt Falls 65% Seplat Energy, the Nigerian oil and gas producer listed in Lagos and London, earned net profit of $260.2 million in the nine months to September 30, 2026. That is a 174 percent increase on a year earlier. Revenue...

Samsung’s $80 Billion Quarter Caps Lee Jae-yong’s Fourth Year as Chairman Lee Jae-yong marked four years as executive chairman of Samsung Electronics on October 27 with the company on course for the most profitable year in its history. Preliminary results for the third quarter showed operating profit of about 107.4...

SpaceX’s $40 Billion Apollo Deal Shows How AI’s Chip Bill Is Being Financed SpaceX has agreed to lease about $40 billion of AI chips and related data center equipment from an entity managed by Apollo Global Management. The company describes the arrangement as the largest committed GPU financing on record....

A company controlled by Australian billionaire James Packer has paid at least $1.25 million to Hadad Roth Shenhar & Co., the Tel Aviv law firm defending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his corruption trial. According to reporting in Australia, Packer’s Consolidated Press International began transferring $50,000 a month to...

In January 2017, Peter Thiel was asked whether the age of Apple was over. “Confirm,” he replied. “We know what a smartphone looks like and does.” He was careful to exempt the company’s chief executive: “It’s not the fault of Tim Cook, but it’s not an area where there will...

The profile of America’s youngest billionaires has changed in a single year. On the 2026 Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans, published in September with net worths as of September 4, ten members are under 40, up from four in 2025. Seven are first-time members, and all seven made...

A growing number of Americans are buying second citizenships. Henley & Partners, one of the largest firms in the investment migration industry, says U.S. nationals accounted for nearly a third of all citizenship applications it processed worldwide in the first quarter of 2026. In Antigua and Barbuda, Americans make up...