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President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico sparked panic and condemnation from the US’s top trading partners, who said the levies would devastate North America’s economy and overturn decades of integration. Politicians, business leaders and trade associations in all three countries reacted with disbelief, warning the tariffs would bring inflation, supply chain disruption and
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<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21410664/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals were mixed, while U.S. Treasury yields rose and equity prices fell Friday after the White House announced tariffs against Mexico, Canada, and China will take effect Saturday. For the week, municipals “not only moved in sync (with Treasuries) they actually outperformed, especially in the belly of the curve,
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On Monday, the world watched as $1tn was wiped off the stock market in a single day, a huge bonfire kindled by the little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek. Its release of a new AI model, known as R1, upended assumptions about US supremacy in AI and raised the prospect that some in China are
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&amp;lt;img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21408585/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /&amp;gt; Issuance rose in January on a year-over-year basis, as issuers came to market amid policy uncertainty and possible tax changes. January’s volume was at $35.243 billion in 486 issues, up 10.8% from $31.817 billion in 554 issues in 2024, according to LSEG data. January’s total also surpasses the 10-year
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California Treasurer Fiona Ma announced that a conduit issuer she chairs has established a $2 million zero-interest loan program to aid health facilities affected by fires in three southern California counties.California treasurer’s office The California state treasurer has launched a loan fund to aid health facilities affected by the Los Angeles-area wildfires. The $2 million
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MSRB CEO Mark Kim The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s quarterly board meeting included discussion regarding the launch of a “holistic review” of MSRB’s municipal advisor rules, MSRB CEO Mark Kim confirmed.  The meeting, which was held on Wednesday and Thursday, was the board of directors’ second quarterly meeting of MSRB’s 2025 fiscal year. It’s been
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An insurance company employee on Jan. 23 surveys a home destroyed by the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles.Bloomberg News This month’s devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires have created urgency around a bill that would allow the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to issue bonds to support the state’s property insurer of last resort. California’s FAIR
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Grayscale has applied to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to change its XRP Trust into an exchange-traded fund (ETF) on NYSE Arca. According to a filing lodged with the regulatory agency, the XRP Trust is among the largest investment instruments anchored to Ripples native token, with more than $16 million in assets under
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After a short-lived rally past $3,700 in early January, Ethereum struggled to sustain its gains and is now 12% below its recently established local top. The leading altcoin’s market sentiment remains muted. As such, a new analysis suggests that the next significant price shift will largely be influenced by whales. Ethereum’s price has stabilized above
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Apple shares rose in after-market trading on Thursday after the company forecast higher sales than Wall Street expected, a sign the company expects iPhone sales to recover as it rolls out artificial intelligence features. Apple executives said they expect sales for the current quarter to rise in the low- to mid-single digit range. After accounting for a
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