The Kroll Bond Rating Agency upgraded Connecticut’s long-term general obligation rating to AA-plus from AA on Thursday. The upgraded rating continues Kroll’s stable outlook and reflected Connecticut’s “strong credit profile and significant and continuing progress in improving its financial position over the last six fiscal years,” the agency said. KBRA pointed in particular to the extension
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For female employees past and present, Goldman Sachs’ $215mn settlement of a long-running gender discrimination lawsuit was not just a reminder of the bank’s problematic history with women. Just weeks away from trial, it scuppered a chance for a useful airing of the practices that continue to plague the Wall Street firm. “Behaviour could have
Bank bosses in the UK have warned that growing numbers of consumers are relying on “shadow credit” during the cost of living crisis by taking out risky loans from the murkier corners of the financial system. “I do think there’s a worry out there that people are moving more and more into unregulated credit,” David
The United States stock market recovered sharply on May 17 and May 18 on hopes that the debt ceiling agreement could be reached, but the market gave back some of it gains on May 19 on reports of a temporary halt in the talks. The U.S. dollar index (DXY), which had been rising for the
The writer is an FT contributing editor This week the US is again negotiating with itself to make sure the federal government can continue borrowing. The stakes are familiar. And yet this time there seems to be more concern that the dollar itself is at risk — that everyone else, long frustrated with the US
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman turned up to testify on Capitol Hill for the first time this week, he could hardly have expected an easy ride. The breakout success of ChatGPT, his company’s AI-powered chatbot, has triggered a frantic arms race in the tech industry — even though Altman himself has been among those warning
The federal government, five cities and California have struck an agreement they say will cut red tape at all levels of government to reduce homelessness more quickly. The cities selected to participate in the program — Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, Chicago, Seattle — along with California, are home to nearly half of the nation’s homeless
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Our video series on Trading 212 Pies is here to make sure you maximise this game-changing new tool to the benefit of your investments in the stock market. In this latest video of the series, we explain how to reflect your risk appetite in your Pie, what are the core asset types you can add,
Late on Thursday afternoon, around the time that Joe Biden was saluting officers at Iwakuni Marine base and Rishi Sunak was leaving for Hiroshima from an exclusive business club in Tokyo, investors around the world received a research note entitled Japan’s Rising Sun. The timing of the analysis, written by the chief economist at the
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Starting next week, the first of 8,000 Amazon employees will begin moving into one of two brand new 22-story towers in Arlington, Virginia. Move-in is expected to be complete by the end of the summer. Amazon’s HQ2, formally called Metropolitan Park, has many features that
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) will be the first presidential candidate in United States history to accept campaign donations with Bitcoin, making his first appearance as a presidential candidate at the crypto conference. He praised the cryptocurrency as a “symbol of democracy and freedom” during the event. “Today we show the world
U.S. Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming held a fireside chat with the founder and CEO of Chamber of Digital Commerce Perianne Boring during the Bitcoin 2023 event in Miami on May 19. The topics of discussion were the importance of Bitcoin to U.S. national and energy security and the upcoming legislation surrounding cryptocurrency, blockchain,
The city of Vaughan, north of Toronto, Canada, is long on cultural and natural attractions. Canada’s Wonderland amusement park, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the quaint Kleinburg Village old town area, the 800-acre Kortright Centre for Conservation and the Vaughan Mills shopping center are among the draws. Vaughan is also filled with family-friendly neighborhoods, an
The US will give the green light to allies that wish to supply F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine and will help train Ukrainian pilots to fly the aircraft, paving the way for one of the most significant upgrades in Kyiv’s military capabilities since Russia’s full-scale invasion last year. President Joe Biden told G7 leaders on
Revolut is locked in a fight with top shareholder SoftBank after regulators told the UK’s biggest private tech company it must simplify its ownership to win a long-delayed banking licence. The Japanese investor has demanded compensation for giving up its priority class of shares, which the Bank of England has made a condition for granting
The United States has hit its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and is now running out of money. As pointed out by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the debt ceiling needs to be lifted before June 1. Otherwise, the country risks missing its debt obligations due to Treasury bond holders and thereby defaulting on its sovereign debt.
A lot of time is dedicated to providing advice to first-time homebuyers – as it should be. However, selling a house for the first time can also be a bewildering experience. These sellers are navigating what, for them, is unchartered waters, and missteps can keep their home on the market longer, or cause them to
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave a clear signal he is inclined to pausing interest-rate increases next month and said that tighter credit conditions could mean the policy peak will be lower. “We’ve come a long way in policy tightening and the stance of policy is restrictive and we face uncertainty about the lagged effects
In this article DIS FL BE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Foot Locker Inc. signage is displayed in the window of a store in New York, U.S. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Friday. Bloom Energy — The clean energy stock jumped 5.1% following
A new scam as a service called “Inferno Drainer” has reportedly stolen nearly $6 million from unsuspecting crypto users, according to Web3 scam detecting firm Scam Sniffer. Inferno Drainer reportedly advertises that it provides ready-to-go code to scammers, allowing them to steal crypto in exchange for a 20% cut of the scammer’s crypto “loot”. 1/