“We hope that there will be some kind of resolution that Speaker Johnson can find between the wider variety of parties that are now entering the conversation of funding the federal government,” said Emily Brock, director of the federal liaison center at the Government Finance Officers Association. GFOA The continuing resolution deal to keep the government
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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. Luigi Mangione was transported to New York on Thursday where he faces federal murder charges over the killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, in a case that has garnered global attention. Federal prosecutors unveiled
Moody’s Ratings does not rate Clyde, Texas, but it highlighted the city’s recent default in a report this week.Bloomberg News A small Texas city struggling with water scarcity disclosed this month that it took out a high-interest, short-term loan to repay companies that insured defaulted certificates of obligation. Clyde, a city of less than 4,000
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Depending on where you sit in the investment world, the venture capital business is either in rude health or facing something of an existential crisis. Like many people in tech these days, start-up investors have
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A Georgia prosecutor and her office should be removed from a criminal case against Donald Trump over alleged interference in the 2020 election, an appeals court ruled on Thursday, the latest legal victory
A recent hack of a Michigan township should spur the the public finance industry to better understand and prepare for cybersecurity threats as hackers become more sophisticated. It also signals the industry needs a unified approach to disclosing those threats and to prepare for a higher price tag of insuring against them. White Lake Charter
We’re buying 50 shares of CrowdStrike at roughly $354 each and 25 shares of Home Depot at roughly $390. Following Thursday’s trades, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 200 shares of CRWD, increasing its portfolio weighting to 2% from 1.5%. The Trust will also own 225 shares of HD, increasing its weighting to 2.5% from
Investors own more than 131,000 homes in the Las Vegas Valley now. Las Vegas Review-journal | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Sales of previously owned homes rose 4.8% in November compared with October, according to the National Association of Realtors. That put them at a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.15 million units. Sales
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Vladimir Putin has denied that Moscow suffered a defeat in Syria, claiming that despite the implosion of Bashar al-Assad’s regime the Kremlin had achieved its aims in the country. During a marathon annual press conference,
A television station broadcasts the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cut on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wall Street’s fear gauge — the VIX — spiked by the second biggest percentage in its history on Wednesday, after
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ōura, the maker of health-tracking smart rings popular with celebrities and business executives, has raised $200mn in new funding, doubling its valuation since 2022 to $5.2bn. Founded in Finland in 2013, Ōura’s latest deal is
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tulip Siddiq, Treasury minister responsible for the City of London, has been named in a Bangladesh court application that accused her family of embezzling $5bn, with the country’s High Court ordering a probe into the
A house with rooftop solar panels. Florida PACE Funding Agency, which finances installation of solar panels, is defending a $5 billion bond validation.Adobe Stock A Florida agency that offers PACE financing to property owners is at the center of a legal dispute that it says could catastrophically undermine the finality of all Florida bond validations.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Bank of England has kept interest rates on hold at 4.75 per cent as it seeks to contend with both stubborn inflation and lacklustre growth. In a split decision, most members of the Monetary
Human rights groups are blasting the international soccer federation FIFA for selecting Saudi Arabia to host the 2034 men’s World Cup, citing the exploitation of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the jailing of political activists for expressing themselves peacefully, and discrimination against women and LGBTQ+ people. In a joint statement, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians near the town of Sofin Tuesday. They were identified as 32-year-old Mohammed Ashqar and 31-year-old Diaa Salmi. Israeli forces reportedly blocked anyone from approaching the wounded men, leaving them to bleed out before medical help could arrive. Israel has carried out near-daily raids
President-elect Trump could keep his pledge to “save” TikTok – and still address national security concerns that spurred Congress to authorize a ban — by brokering a sale of the Chinese-owned app to a US buyer, experts told The Post. China-based ByteDance has until Jan. 19 to completely divest its stake in TikTok or face
DETROIT A company that sells replacement winter tires is recalling more than 541,000 of them in the U.S. because they dont have enough snow traction to meet North American standards. Prinx Chengshan Tire North America is recalling over 100 sizes of Fortune Tormenta and Prinx Hicountry tires with three-peak mountain snowflake symbols on the sidewalls.
The Biden administration is releasing three more prisoners from the U.S. naval base in Guantnamo Bay, Cuba. The Pentagon says Mohammed Farik bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir bin Lep will be transferred to their home country of Malaysia to serve an additional five years in prison, after they pleaded guilty to participating in deadly bombing
President Biden has declared his support for banning sitting members of Congress from trading stock — an eleventh-hour pivot after four years of silence over the controversy. Nobody in the Congress should be able to make money in the stock market while theyre in the Congress, Biden told the “More Perfect Union” podcast. “I don’t
Bitcoin cash (BCH), a cryptocurrency created by a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain in 2017, fell 20% last week, its biggest slide since April, according to data on TradingView and CoinDesk. The sell-off happened as defunct exchange Mt. Gox said it would begin paying back creditors the roughly $9 billion worth of tokens taken
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