Pension funding-related threats to Chicago and Illinois’ fiscal health are on the rise, reports published this week warn. Chicago and Illinois — longtime examples of outliers nationally on the size of their unfunded liabilities and funded ratios — have made progress, with Chicago now making payments more closely aligned with an actuarial calculation and both
Receive free Sam Bankman-Fried updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Sam Bankman-Fried news every morning. Sam Bankman-Fried must face the full suite of criminal charges brought against him over the multibillion-dollar collapse of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, a New York court has ruled. In an order on Tuesday,
The budget agreement reached by California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers late Monday provides a lifeline to struggling transit agencies, but comes with strings attached. The parties negotiated all weekend without reaching an agreement, making it seem likely they would come barreling up to the Friday deadline ahead of the July 1, 2023-24 fiscal year
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Receive free Lex updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Lex news every morning. TikTok’s comment section is filled with viewers asking creators where they bought the shirt/bag/lipstick they are wearing in the video. Parent company ByteDance wants to cash in on that interest. Its ambitions for logistics will
In this article AAPL TSLA META NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Tesla Inc. store in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to
Vikram Rai, head of Citi’s municipal strategy group, has left the firm, he announced on Monday, after his position was eliminated. “Today was my last day at Citi,” he said in an email to clients. “I got cut,” he told The Bond Buyer. “I’m looking for a new job now.” Rai is an outspoken and
The S&P 500 Index (SPX) snapped a five-week winning streak last week but it is still on track to close the first half of the year with stellar gains of nearly 13%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has done much better as it is up about 29%. Both these indices have been overtaken by Bitcoin (BTC)
Transactions on the Optimism network surged 67% following its June 7 “Bedrock” upgrade, according to a June 26 Twitter thread from blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The network had been seeing less than 300,000 transactions per day before the upgrade, but this figure increased to over 550,000 by the middle of June. Since Optimism’s Bedrock upgrade
Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Lucid Group — Lucid shares jumped 9% after the electric vehicle maker said it will provide powertrain and battery systems to British luxury automaker Aston Martin. WSFS Financial — The regional bank added 4.4% after D.A. Davidson upgraded the
A recent surge in activity surrounding exchange-traded funds has led to the largest weekly inflow for digital asset investment products since July 2022, according to a June 26 report via CoinShares. Totalling $199 million, inflows for the week of 19–23 June turned around a nine-week string of consecutive outflows, with Bitcoin (BTC) representing the lion’s
Former Nevada Treasurer Kate Marshall is on the short list to be chancellor for the Nevada System of Higher Education. Marshall was state treasurer from 2007 to 2015. After an unsuccessful candidacy for secretary of state, she won election as lieutenant governor in 2018. She resigned in 2021 to become a special assistant to President
Venture capital financing in the crypto space is no different from typical VC, except the startups benefiting from financing operate in the cryptocurrency market. Venture capital businesses in the cryptocurrency sector concentrate their investments on startups and initiatives linked to cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, decentralized finance (DeFi) and other cutting-edge distributed ledger technology applications. Projects creating
One scoop to start: Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will use his Mansion House speech next month to outline wide-ranging plans for channelling UK pension investments worth billions of pounds into fast-growing British companies. Investors navigate higher interest rates Central banks have come under the spotlight as policymakers increased rates last week in an attempt to rein
Zacks Momentum Stock Strategist David Bartosiak explains how to use moving averages to find stock picks. Two stocks today trading above long-term moving averages are prepaid debit card provider Green Dot (GDOT) and insurance company Federated National Holding Co (FNHC).
When marketing premium homes, real estate videos are king. From Instagram’s 30-second vertical videos that showcase properties to $40,000 estate films with storylines––moving image has become a preferred tool to engage qualified buyers. While video production is now democratized––anyone can create a short film or even a documentary on a cell phone using apps––real estate
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The 820,000km of electricity cables criss-crossing Britain have proved a solid investment for those who swooped on the electricity network sector post-privatisation in 1990. International investors including Warren Buffett, Li Ka-shing and major global infrastructure funds have enjoyed the comfort of owning regulated monopolies in a relatively sleepy sector that attracts less of the political
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