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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority disciplined a pair of municipal finance firms for MSRB rule violations.SCOTT EELLS/BLOOMBERG NEWS The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority this week censured and fined two firms for municipal market violations, including failing to properly supervise political contributions from muni finance professionals. Alabama-based municipal underwriter Frazer Lanier Company, Inc. received a censure, agreed
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The first fire to pummel Los Angeles was sparked in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood on Tuesday.Bloomberg News As Los Angeles battles wildfires, Mayor Karen Bass is being criticized for the roughly $17 million in cuts made to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget. Neither the mayor’s office, nor the city administrative office were available to
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Argentina’s government has paid $4.3bn to holders of its sovereign bonds, its largest repayment since a 2020 debt restructuring, in a crucial step for libertarian President Javier Milei’s bid to restore confidence in the serial
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The Wyoming House of Representatives has become the latest GOP state to introduce a bill banning firms that are deemed to have used environmental, social or governance factors in their investment decisions.State of Wyoming Wyoming has become the latest state to float legislation that restricts state funds from being invested with firms that consider environmental,
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Cryptocurrencies appear to have staying power, Federal Reserves Chairman Jerome Powell said in June. Perhaps truer words have never been spoken, as the market value of all cryptocurrencies has doubled to $1.3 trillion this year, recovering from last years crash. More impressive is the renewed interest in centralized crypto-collateralized finance after last years controversial collapse
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The Biden administration’s spending on stimulus to keep the economy going during the COVID pandemic may have contributed a little bit to inflation, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an interview on CNBC on Wednesday. Yellen said supply chain issues and shortages were the main factor driving up prices during the pandemic, but conceded that
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The team behind Mantra, the layer-1 blockchain for real-world assets, has signed a $1 billion agreement deal with DAMAC Group, an investment conglomerate, to boost accessibility to tokenized assets in the Middle East. Users can tokenize DAMAC Group assets from early 2025 using the Mantra blockchain. DAMAC Group is a multi-billion-dollar business conglomerate whose tentacles
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Federal Reserve officials at their meeting Dec. 17-18 expected to dial back the pace of interest rate cuts this year in the face of persistently elevated inflation and the threat of widespread tariffs and other potential policy changes. Minutes from the meeting, released after the typical three-week lag, also showed clear division among the Feds 19 policymakers.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shown his support for Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s pro-Bitcoin opposition leader. This follows Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement of his resignation on January 7, in the wake of the abrupt departure of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland. Musk shared a video of Poilievre discussing inflation and fiscal policy
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The US entities’ share of global Bitcoin reserves has reached an all-time high amidst increasing confidence in the asset class. The figure is now 65% higher than non-US entities, according to CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju. This milestone is based on an analysis of Bitcoin holdings by identifiable US entities – including miners, MicroStrategy (MSTR),
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California’s shortage of affordable housing poses a serious threat to the state’s long-term economic health and well-being. You don’t need a Ph.D. to figure out that an affordable housing shortage hampers labor force growth, stifles business expansion and new business formation, erodes the tax base, and contributes to homelessness, drug abuse and street crime. To
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PayPal has been sued by an Asian American businesswoman who accused the digital payments company of racial bias for restricting part of a $535 million investment program to black and Hispanic applicants, costing her millions of dollars. Thursday’s complaint by Nisha Desai and her New York-based venture capital firm Andav Capital is part of a growing push among some conservatives to curtail diversity,
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