If the $4 trillion municipal bond market is like a small town, where everyone knows everyone, then Tim Schaefer is its West Coast mayor. Schaefer stepped down after more than seven and a half years as California’s deputy treasurer for public finance two weeks ago — quietly, he said, because he didn’t want “his retirement
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Leaky homes and buildings are some of the greatest climate offenders, but a Dayton, Ohio-based start-up is making big gains in shoring up the problem. Aeroseal, which seals both air ducts and building envelopes, is now available across America and in 29 countries. Leaky airducts and walls are the single largest reason for wasted energy
FHN Financial Capital Markets now has banking boots on the ground in Ohio with the hiring of Kathleen Clark. Clark joined the firm as a vice president in Columbus earlier this month after more than two decades at Fifth Third Securities where she worked on more than $5 billion of bond and note financings. Clark
Climate pledges made by countries worldwide are “dangerously overreliant” on tree planting and land restoration that would require an area greater than the size of the US and risked sparking conflict, a study has concluded. The assessment of the national climate plans submitted by nearly 200 nations to the UN found they would require a
Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. As more people fly, aviation is on track to becoming a much bigger problem for climate change. Host Pilita Clark, FT columnist and climate journalist, looks at the potential for a more sustainable aviation industry, a
Sean McVay is as much a superstar as the team he coached through this year’s Super Bowl win. At the age of just 36, having such success in the field is a record-breaking achievement. One of the NFL’s best coaches, McVay led the Los Angeles Rams out of 12 straight years of missing the postseason
Kentucky will benefit from $74 million in federal funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Actto tackle the problems created by abandoned coal mines. The announcement came from Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland at a press conference in the state’s capital earlier this month. “We have a once-in-a-generation investment to address these sites with
Cryptocurrencies broke the $1 trillion market capitalization resistance on Oct. 26, which had been holding strong for the previous 41 days. Despite Bitcoin’s (BTC) modest 5.5% weekly gains, the aggregate value of 20,000 listed tokens increased by 8.5% between Oct. 24 and 31. The cryptocurrency market was positively impacted by a 6.3% weekly rally in
The chief executive of British Cycling has stepped down with immediate effect, weeks after the organisation faced backlash from campaigners and members for agreeing a sponsorship deal with oil company Shell. British Cycling, the governing body for the sport in the UK, said on Monday that Brian Facer had left by mutual agreement with the
Greetings from California, where I arrived late last week to take part in the Real Time with Bill Maher television show in Los Angeles. To my delight — and surprise — the HBO show (which featured Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens, and Quentin Tarantino, the film-maker) included an unplanned debate on climate change.
Late November heralds one of the highlights in the FT Weekend calendar — our annual Books of the Year series — in which FT writers and critics choose their favourite titles of the past 12 months on subjects ranging from politics, economics, science and history to art, tech, food and the environment. Novels, poetry and
After the acclaim and awards showered on The White Lotus, Mike White’s bijou hotel-based black comedy-drama, the show returns for a second series, now shifted from Hawaii to a Sicilian coastal resort. It introduces us to a new crop of crazy rich Caucasians, several of whom — as we see in the flash-forward opening scene
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In this article FFIV TXN JNPR TKR LRN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tim Boyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stocks ended Friday on a positive note, but an uncertain week – with a Federal Reserve meeting – looms ahead. The three major averages notched gains for Friday’s session and were higher on the
Bitcoin (BTC) continued consolidating into the Oct. 30 weekly close as concerns over a deeper retracement became vocal. Trader avoids new longs below $21,000 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD circling levels just below $21,000 on the day. Weekend trading had produced an early return above the $21,000 mark, this being short-lived
Workers have been staging an exodus this weekend from the world’s largest iPhone factory, amid a coronavirus outbreak at the Foxconn plant in central China. The huge complex in the city of Zhengzhou, which workers say produces Apple’s iPhone 14, is the latest manufacturing centre to be hobbled by President Xi Jinping’s tough zero-Covid policies.
A new study by Fidelity Digital Assets, a subsidiary of financial giant Fidelity Investments, shows that 58% of institutional investors surveyed invested in digital assets in the first half of this year and 74% plan to invest in the future. Fidelity’s Institutional Investor Digital Assets Study Fidelity Digital Assets, a subsidiary of financial giant Fidelity
The co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), Vitalik Buterin, believes that the crypto ecosystem needs to mature and be in tune with the regulatory policies that allow crypto projects to operate internally freely. Sharing his opinion around crypto regulations, Buterin spoke against the regulations that have an impact on the inner workings of a crypto ecosystem. Considering
The Dogecoin (DOGE) price rally extended further on Oct. 29 in hopes that the cryptocurrency would get a major boost from Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition. Elon Musk boosts Dogecoin price again Dogecoin price jumped by nearly 75% to reach $0.146 on Oct. 29, the biggest daily gain since April 2021. Notably, the meme-coin’s massive intraday
Knowing what we do about the healing properties of trees makes many of us search for a woodland home. Forests are the ultimate antidote to the stressed pace of modern life. They clean the air while boosting our immune systems. The Japanese believe in shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing. Henry David Thoreau, too, believed that nature