Munis continued to show strength Wednesday as several large new issues priced to good demand, with New York City Transitional Finance Authority seeing yields fall as much as of 14 basis points from Tuesday’s retail scales and Salt Lake City upsizing its deal. U.S. Treasuries improved and equities ended in the black. Triple-A yields were
Data standardization across the municipal market will likely take years and much discussion to pinpoint the issues and how the market can solve them. Some of the apparent problems were discussed at the Brookings Municipal Finance Conference where Marc Joffe, federalism and state policy analyst at the Cato Institute, presented his paper outlining them. “If
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Michael Moritz myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Michael Moritz is leaving Sequoia Capital after almost 40 years leading the Silicon Valley firm’s investments in companies including Google, Yahoo, YouTube and PayPal. The departure of one of the tech industry’s best-known investors from
In the latest episode of The Market Report, Cointelegraph analyst and writer Marcel Pechman discusses Ripple’s partial victory against the Securities and Exchange Commission and its impact on the crypto market. Although people traded based on emotion after headlines popped out, the next day, as investors could process what happened, the altcoins gave away half
Typically, luxury homes in Whitefish, Montana, are designed to fit into the spectacularly rugged landscape. Dominant styles are traditional mountain and glass-filled mountain modern, which rely on using natural materials with wood and stone accents. But there are exceptions. The contemporary lakefront home takes its cues from coastal Carolina cottages thousands of miles … [+]
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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to progressively back the United States dollar with Bitcoin (BTC) if he is elected president. Speaking at a July 19 Heal-the-Divide PAC event, Kennedy claimed that backing the U.S. dollar with what he called “hard currency,” including gold, silver, platinum or Bitcoin, could help to re-stabilize
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In this article WAL JBHT OMC IBKR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Western Alliance Bank’s logo is seen on a smartphone. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after hours. Interactive Brokers — Interactive Brokers slid 2.6% after the brokerage firm’s second-quarter earnings missed estimates. The firm reported
Some of the negative reaction to the chancellor’s proposed pension reforms is depressing but unsurprising (Report, July 11). Pension trustees should be willing to embrace positive changes that continue to protect the primacy of members’ interests, while enabling greater diversity in investment strategies, particularly if this brings significant potential benefits to the wider economy. After
Fidelity Digital Assets released a ‘Q2 2023 Signals Report’ on July 18, which claimed that Ether’s (ETH) outlook for the next 12 months and the long term is positive. Year-to-date, Ether price has gained 62% but while the investment firm might be ‘short-term’ bullish on Ether, that does not mean they believe that the month-long
Municipals continued to improve Tuesday in constructive secondary trading while a retail pricing of $950 million for the New York City Transitional Finance Authority took focus in the primary. U.S. Treasuries were slightly firmer out long and equities rallied. Triple-A yields fell up to four basis points, depending on the curve, while U.S. Treasuries were
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson Friday signed into law a 2% municipal sales tax rate, marking the end of a long-fought battle to shore up the city’s ailing finances, which have been hit by rising pension costs. “We’ve accomplished something huge, something major, something extraordinary for our city,” Johnson, surrounded by local and state officials in
Michael Barr, vice chair for supervision of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, testifies during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Oversight of Prudential Regulators, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2023. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator expressed caution Tuesday
Despite several high-profile cryptocurrency implosions, the number of people working in the industry has soared over the past four years. According to findings by the crypto research startup K33, the number of crypto-related employees has surged nearly 160% since 2019. In a report titled “The Emerging Crypto Industry,” K33 estimated that the total headcount of
British government ministers are fond of reminding voters that the UK has the second-most Nobel laureates of any nation and four of the world’s top 20 universities. It is a comforting counter-narrative in an era when the country seems to be struggling to keep up with developed-country peers on everything from productivity growth to healthcare
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