Municipals were steady Thursday in the secondary market while an $830 million deal from the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority took focus in the primary. U.S. Treasuries yields rose after the fourth-quarter gross domestic product report was better than expected and equities ended up. The three-year muni-UST ratio was at 54%, the five-year at 57%,
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The new chief executive of Rolls-Royce has given a brutal assessment of Britain’s flagship engineering group, telling employees it must transform the way it operates or it will not survive. In a global address broadcast to staff, parts of which were shared with the Financial Times, Tufan Erginbilgic warned investors were losing patience with the
Buying DAO tokens? That’s no longer risk-free: Courts might consider you a partner in the business and judge you liable for millions in hacked funds. Another legal trap may be found simply working for a DAO — and implementing community decisions that turn out to be illegal in some far-flung jurisdiction. With many DAO communities
The top bond counsel firms combined for a total of $359.123 billion in 7,878 transactions during 2022, down from the $456.136 billion in 11,819 deals in 2021. Only four firms remained in the same spot as in the prior last year: Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Kutak Rock, Norton Rose Fulbright and Chapman and Cutler. Bryant
Bitcoin (BTC) could get sucked toward $50,000 like a magnet if it continues to follow gold, fresh analysis predicts. In a Twitter update on Jan. 26, popular trader and market commentator TechDev presented a lofty new BTC price target tied to XAU/USD. Gold, Bitcoin inverse dollar correlation “without question” As the debate over how much
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Peter Kramer | CNBC NYSE President Lynn Martin and other exchange officials confirmed to CNBC that the root cause of the Big Board’s trading glitch at the Tuesday open was due to a manual error involving the Exchange’s Disaster Recovery configuration. After the 9/11 disaster,
In this article CVX CSX LEVI NOW LVS IBM TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A customer refuels at a Chevron gas station with prices above $4 a gallon in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Monday, March 7, 2022. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell.
Kevin Rose, the co-founder of the nonfungible token (NFT) collection Moonbirds, has fallen victim to a phishing scam leading to more than $1.1 million worth of his personal NFTs stolen. The NFT creator and PROOF co-founder shared the news with his 1.6 million Twitter followers on Jan. 25, asking them to avoid buying any Squiggles
Ultra-high net worth real estate has long been full of hot shots, narcissists, and bravado. In turn, unscripted reality shows like Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing” and Netflix’s “Selling Sunset” have minted ratings and superstars out of realtors and developers, many of whom were just scrapping to get a listing or a loan a few years
Housing rights activists and tenants protest against evictions and the poor condition of their apartments outside the offices the landlord Broadway Capital in Chelsea, Massachusetts on April 25, 2022. Brian Snyder | Reuters The Biden administration announced on Wednesday new actions to protect renters across the U.S., including trying to curb practices that prevent people
York County, South Carolina, priced $24.6 million of revenue bonds Wednesday to recoup costs incurred by the county to take over of a private water utility operation. The proceeds will cover a portion of the $36 million price tag York County paid to take over private firm Blue Granite Water’s water utility operations in the
EY Germany is planning to cut 40 partners and shed 380 staff as the Big Four firm attempts to improve profitability after the damage caused by the Wirecard scandal. Most of the job cuts are aimed at reducing back-office costs at the German business, one of the largest in EY’s 150-country operations, four people familiar
Texas lawmakers are moving ahead with a huge property tax cut thanks to a record budget surplus. The $130 billion general revenue fund biennial budget bills introduced last week by the Republican-controlled House and Senate include $15 billion in property tax cuts with the Senate version calling for increasing the homestead exemption to $70,00 from
Unredacted documents mistakenly sent to the bankruptcy court indicate that the now-defunct crypto lender Blockfi had more than $1.2 billion tied up with FTX and Alameda Research. The accidentally revealed documentation shows that Blockfi’s exposure to the bankrupt crypto firm FTX was more than what the company had previously disclosed. Unredacted Documents Reveal Blockfi’s $1.2
In this article ICE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Peter Kramer | CNBC The New York Stock Exchange experienced technical issues at the open Tuesday. Dozens of stocks opened at prices well above or below their prior day closing prices. Most were halted
In this article MSFT CNR-CA COF TXN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A building with offices belonging to Microsoft is seen in Chevy Chase, Maryland, January 18, 2023. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Microsoft — The tech giant saw shares rise 4% in extended
Madison Square Park is one of New York City’s famous parks. Never heard of it? That’s how the locals like it. The square, which played host to magnificent mansions along Fifth Avenue in the mid-19th century, quickly became the heart of one of the city’s exclusive neighborhoods. It still is. Residential spaces in NoMad, which
home is being built in in Rio Verde Foothills, Arizona, U.S. on January 7, 2023. The Washington Post | Getty Images Developers planning to build homes in the desert west of Phoenix don’t have enough groundwater supplies to move forward with their plans, a state modeling report found. Plans to construct homes west of the
Roger Millar, AASHTO’s new president and chief of Washington’s Department of Transportation, joins Caitlin Devitt to talk about the rollout of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, how a tight labor market and inflation are impacting capital plans, what a divided Congress means for transportation and an update on the Pacific Northwest’s high speed rail project. (24
Rupert Murdoch has scrapped a proposal to combine Fox and News Corp after his attempt to bring the two halves of his media empire back together was resisted by shareholders. Murdoch’s companies announced on Tuesday that the “special committees” established to explore the terms of the putative merger would be disbanded with immediate effect on