Carlos Slim Still Reaping Big Rewards From NY Times Loan

By: Edmund Lee | Bloomberg

Billionaire Carlos Slim is poised to double his money after investing $250 million in a 2009 lending agreement with the New York Times, showing how dearly the newspaper’s owners paid for his help.

Slim, who controls mobile-phone carrier America Movil SAB and is the world’s second-richest person according to data compiled by Bloomberg, already has earned $122 million from his loan to the Times, based on an annual interest rate of 14 percent and a 12 percent premium charged to the company when its debt to Slim was redeemed in 2011.