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Municipals were little changed Thursday as inflows to municipal bond mutual funds returned. U.S. Treasuries were weaker five years and out, and equities ended up. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Thursday was at 58%, the three-year at 59%, the five-year at 59%, the 10-year at 59% and the 30-year at 86%, according to Refinitiv Municipal Market
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News of the $68 billion budget deficit projected for California in fiscal years 2022-23 and 2023-24 raised alarm bells. But several state budget watchers say longer-term trends are less worrying. Though S&P Global Ratings revised the state’s outlook to stable from positive Friday, the rating agency has said the state remains solidly in the double-A
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One thing to start: Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Global are in early talks to merge, in a media deal that would combine the owner of HBO and CNN with the studio behind the Mission Impossible films and CBS News. David Zaslav, chief executive of Warner Bros Discovery © Bloomberg Welcome to Due Diligence, your
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Silicon Valley doomers worry that generative artificial intelligence will supercharge global risk. OpenAI rival Anthropic positions itself as an ultra-safe, responsible AI start-up. That does not mean it will escape regulator scrutiny. Anthropic is run
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If bondholders are not allowed a lien on Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority revenues, it could “threaten the continued viability of the primary revenue stream for vast swaths of municipal public works projects,” 14 attorneys general and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association said in friend of the court filings with the First Circuit
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Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign event at the Hyatt Hotel on December 13, 2023 in Coralville, Iowa.  Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images The judge presiding over the high-stakes civil business fraud trial of former President Donald Trump harshly questioned the credibility of a key expert
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Regulator scrutiny is making tech M&A more onerous. Antitrust probes in the UK and EU have put a stop to Adobe’s $20bn deal to buy Figma. Amazon’s purchase of iRobot is under threat. With initial
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