The total crypto market capitalization rejected at $1.13 trillion on Feb. 16, but there was no change in the month-long ascending channel structure. More importantly, this level represents a 43% gain in 2023, which is far from the $3 trillion level achieved in November 2021. Still, the current recovery is notable. As shown above, the
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Municipals were weaker Friday ahead of a holiday-shortened week with a smaller new-issue calendar. U.S. Treasuries were firmer, and equities ended mixed. Triple-A benchmarks were cut three to 11 basis points, depending on the scale, pushing the one-year muni above 3% and the 30-year to 3.50%. UST yields fell two to five basis points. Muni-UST
The persistent scarcity of foreign exchange may force the Nigerian central bank to delay repaying the $10.4 billion owed to local banks, analysts at Moody’s Investors Service have concluded. The central bank’s failure to pay its debts on time will likely force the affected financial institutions to similarly delay paying back their own forex-denominated debts.
The Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. plans to price $135 million of special revenue bonds Wednesday to support its affordable mortgage program for first-time and lower income home buyers. The issuer, also known as RIHousing, is the state’s housing finance agency. The largest of the three tranches of Homeownership Opportunity Bonds is the
Antony Ressler, co-founder of Ares Management, takes photos with students of the AltFinance Fellowship. Marcus Shaw, AltFinance The search for bigger profits and top talent is nothing new on Wall Street, but some firms are turning to an almost untapped resource: historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. The AltFinance Fellowship is the brainchild of
Two of the Federal Reserve board’s seven governors abstained from supporting the selection of former Obama aide Austan Goolsbee to become president of the Chicago Fed, according to a record of the vote. Governors Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller, who were both appointed to the board by former President Donald Trump, withheld their support for
Tax-exempt bonds for sports stadiums are once again in the crosshairs under a bill introduced this week by Oregon Democrat Rep. Earl Blumenauer. The bill would amend the tax code – or “close a loophole,” as Blumenauer said – to eliminate the federal tax exemption for bonds that finance or refinance capital expenditures for a
Property tax cuts and expanded school vouchers will be fast tracked for consideration by Texas lawmakers after Gov. Greg Abbott included them in a list of emergency items for the legislative session. In his Thursday evening State of the State address, the Republican governor also said he will soon announce a $100 billion transportation infrastructure
The writer is a former head of responsible investment at HSBC Asset Management and previous editor of Lex What a time to be a business columnist — and thank goodness I’m not one. Having to ponder what chatbots mean for companies the world over is some ask. Bill Gates calls “generative AI” as important as
Most blockchain upgrades have an impact on price action. The Ethereum Shanghai upgrade would be no different. Ether supplies on exchanges have already started to plunge as investors choose to move their assets to self-custody. The previous Ethereum upgrade created good volatility in the market, which traders tapped into. ETH prices skyrocketed from around $1,000
As a general matter, communications between attorneys and their clients are “privileged,” meaning they don’t have to be handed over to the other side in litigation relating to the matters covered in the communications. That process of combing through and handing over (or refusing to hand over) documents is called discovery. Wars over discovery often
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is seeking comment on draft amendments to Rules G-47 on time of trade disclosures and D-15, which defines the sophisticated municipal market professional. The draft amendments to Rule G-47 codifies existing guidance, adds additional disclosures that may be material, retires and consolidates certain elements of interpretive guidance and makes other
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In this video, we recap the general effects of interest rate changes on currencies and then explore how central banks use interest rates to control inflation. As interest rate changes are so important for Forex traders, we look at the rate-decision schedules and inflation targets for the central banks of the major currencies. Test and
The vocal that launches Caroline Polachek’s latest album sounds somewhere between a siren’s call and a primal scream. It’s alluring, eerie and tricky to pin down — a description that could be applied across Polachek’s prolific catalogue. Her credits as singer-songwriter present a giddy whirl, from her emergence in Brooklyn indie outfit Chairlift to numerous
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) lawsuit against Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon could be seen as an SEC “roadmap” to taking down other stablecoins, according to a lawyer. Gabriel Shapiro, general counsel at investment firm Delphi Labs, explained to his 33,800 Twitter followers on Feb. 16 that the SEC’s arguments
Jola Ayeye’s popular I Said What I Said podcast is a regular delve into life as a young woman in Nigeria, enlivened by boisterous discussions with her co-host and guests about pop culture, celebrity, love and friendship. But she has recently added another topic to the conversation: the need for her generation to get out
Management consultants are hopeful that tighter government spending this year will spark more work, as departments and local authorities seek help with cost-cutting and restructuring. The government spends around £300bn a year on public procurement — buying in goods, services and work — which is roughly one in every three pounds of public money. And
Only days after reports of United States regulatory scrutiny of Paxos and Binance USD (BUSD), cryptocurrency exchange Binance has minted nearly $50 million worth of TrueUSD (TUSD). The transaction took place on Feb. 16, according to data from Etherscan, and also comes two days after Binance CEO Chanpeng “CZ” Zhao said in a Feb. 14 Twitter