The UK’s most senior civil servant is considering an early departure from his role after leaked WhatsApp messages that have infuriated Conservative MPs. Simon Case, cabinet secretary, has told friends that he is “genuinely undecided” between trying to guide the civil service through a general election next year and resigning this year to give his
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U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain voided a 2022 Puerto Rico labor law, a win for the Puerto Rico Oversight Board, and perhaps an important precedent, according to an analyst. The law, Act 41, does not comply with the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act because it was not submitted to the
The fiscal pounding hospitals took last year from labor and other pressures nearly erased the fiscal 2021 recovery for hospitals operating margins that have June 30 fiscal year ends, with the full and bleaker accounting of last year’s strains still to come, Fitch Ratings said. The not-for-profit hospital sector’s bruising margin wounds last year are well known
Turmoil continues at an Idaho community college district where management dysfunction was a major factor in a February downgrade. A Kootenai County district judge ordered North Idaho College trustees to reinstate Nick Swayne, the college president they had placed on administrative leave in December. Tumult that put its accreditation in jeopardy was cited when Moody’s
The price of Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), has recovered 78% since June 2022. But this doesn’t guarantee further upside, particularly with declining trading volumes suggesting that the risk of a major correction is high. Ether volume profile drops 90% since March 2020 A “volume profile” indicator displays trading activity across prices, with the blue
The Rollkit development team has announced that Bitcoin has been integrated as a means for sovereign rollups to store and retrieve data. The developers have stated that it is now possible to run the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) on Bitcoin as a sovereign rollup. However, some Ethereum proponents have expressed dissatisfaction with the technology being
Legislatures in 32 states so far this year have introduced more than 150 transportation funding-related measures, with more expected as legislatures in all 50 states settle into their sessions. That’s according to the January and February roundup of state bills by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, which tracks transportation-related bills monthly through its
The National Federation of Municipal Analysts has named Mark Capell, managing vice president of public finance for Build America Mutual’s West Region as its president for the 2023 year. The first bond insurer to serve as president of NFMA since Bill Hogan of Assured Guaranty’s 2009 term, Capell believes his experience in bond insurance gives
The Frax community recently approved a proposal to make its FEI stablecoin fully backed by USD equivalents, rather than maintaining a partially backed and semi algorithmic stablecoin. With Frax’s decision, the days of experimentation with algorithmic stablecoins could finally be behind us. The decentralized stablecoin space has only proved effective with ETH, USDC and BTC
press release PRESS RELEASE. London – Alvey Chain, a decentralized Layer 2 Blockchain built on Ethereum Chain, also a leading provider of blockchain technology solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its next-generation Virtual Reality Multiverse Exchange. The new platform offers a secure, reliable, and scalable solution for users. They can trade, open as
Private equity firm General Atlantic is teaming up with an Abu Dhabi state fund and the emirate’s largest listed company to launch a new investment group, underlining the continuing pull the oil-rich Gulf state holds for Wall Street. The new investment firm will manage a series of assets drawn from ADQ, Abu Dhabi Growth Fund
The writer is author of ‘Chip War’ When the US last week added several units of BGI Group, a Chinese genetic sequencing firm, to its entity list restricting technology transfer, the primary justification was that the company had been “contributing to monitoring and surveillance”, including of ethnic minorities. Yet the human rights implications of China’s
In recent times, Bitcoin’s hashrate has been consistently above 300 exahash per second (EH/s) as multiple mining pools dedicate significant hashpower to the Bitcoin blockchain today. Interestingly, some of the world’s top bitcoin mining pools are also using their hashrate to merge-mine other coins, and these networks have benefited from bitcoin’s increased hashrate. How Bitcoin’s
Ethereum classic remained near a two-month low on March 6, as a cloud of uncertainty continued to hover over markets. The global crypto market cap remained bearish to start the week, and is down 0.55% at the time of writing. Litecoin also moved lower on Monday. Ethereum Classic (ETC) Ethereum classic (ETC) started the week
In this article DPZ EMR RH BMRN SNAP AAPL CSG.N-CH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. An Apple store on Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street in Shanghai, China, on December 16, 2022. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Snap — The tech company’s shares gained almost
Texas is plowing ahead with a massive bond sale to recover extraordinary costs incurred by natural gas utilities during a fierce 2021 winter storm with a deal that allows for a redemption in the event the state’s overflowing coffers are tapped to ease the blow to customers who will be paying off the debt. The
Million-dollar-plus homes are making up a smaller portion of the housing pie than they did in the spring according to a recent survey. Just over 7% of homes in the U.S. are worth $1 million or more. The share has dropped from June 2022’s all-time high of 8.6% and remains essentially unchanged from a year
The two brothers who own the Daily Telegraph newspaper have been summoned to give evidence in a long-running battle at the High Court in London between their uncle Sir Frederick Barclay and his former wife over an unpaid £100mn divorce settlement. Judge Jonathan Cohen ordered Aidan Barclay, chair of the Telegraph Media Group and his
Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen has convinced US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to meet in California rather than Taipei to avoid an aggressive Chinese military response, as tensions run high between Beijing and Washington. Several people familiar with the situation said Tsai and McCarthy had agreed to meet in the US because of Taiwanese security concerns.
Bitcoin (BTC) failed to react at the March 6 Wall Street open as consensus formed around a potential violation of $20,000. $19,000 BTC price is “breakdown target” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked a limp BTC/USD as it clung to $22,400 at the time of writing. Motionless throughout the weekend, the pair offered few
It has been 21 days since Paxos revealed that it would no longer mint the stablecoin BUSD. Since then, over 7 billion BUSD stablecoins have been redeemed. Prior to the announcement, BUSD was once a top-ten crypto asset. However, the top ten cryptocurrencies by market valuation have changed since the redemptions. Presently, there are only