After three years of preparation and just over three months after the official implementation date, the move to a T+1 settlement cycle is beginning to show signs of success. That’s according to a white paper issued by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a key stakeholder and thought leader in preparing the market for
Dallas will contribute $11 billion to its Police and Fire Pension System over 30 years under a plan approved Wednesday by the city council to comply with a Texas law aimed at keeping the system, which is just 39% funded, with a $3.2 billion unfunded liability, solvent. The 14-1 vote came after the retirement system
North Carolina’s Local Government Commission approved about $320 million in bonds and $15 million of other financings, such as state revolving loans and installment purchases. The commission, headed by State Treasurer Dale Folwell, approved $73 million of limited obligation bonds for Rowan County to repair and replace school facilities in the Rowan-Salisbury school system and
House Republicans are squabbling over legislation that ties keeping the government open past Sept. 30 to legislation that would strengthen voting rules, as state and local governments brace for a possible curtailment of federal funding. The bill, labeled as the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” adds additional obstacles to prevent non-U.S. citizens from voting in
Rgstudio | E+ | Getty Images Owning a home makes some people feel more confident about their prospects for retirement — but that may be misguided, some experts say. About 37% of polled workers — including those with part- or full-time jobs, or who are self-employed or business owners — say they are “ahead of
In this article BRK.A Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ajit Jain at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Los Angeles, California. May 1, 2021. Gerard Miller | CNBC Ajit Jain, Warren’s Buffett’s insurance chief and top executive, sold more than half of his stake in Berkshire Hathaway, a new regulatory filing showed. The 73-year-old vice
Jacksonville, Florida, public utility JEA plans to bring $476.6 million in electric system revenue bonds next week in a deal designed to sharply reduce the system’s exposure to variable-rate debt and derivatives. “This transaction will result in a significant simplification of JEA’s Electric System balance sheet,” the utility said in an online investor presentation. “Upon
In his more than 50-year career in government finance, David Thompson focused on mentoring his employees and treating clients fairly. Thompson worked for other firms for more than 30 years before, in 2004, he started his own successful and respected municipal advisory firm, Phoenix Advisors in New Jersey. He grew the firm from four employees
In this article GSBD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An emission comes out of a smoke stack at the Phillips 66 Refinery on February 6, 2024, in Linden, New Jersey. Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty Images The sharp slump in crude oil this month has driven down energy stocks, but the pullback
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been coping with a capital fiscal cliff since June, when Gov. Kathy Hochul canned congestion pricing, and the toll revenue that was supposed to fund $15 billion of projects. But that’s just the beginning of the authority’s capital shortfalls, according to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. A
The Nasdaq Composite notched its best one-day rise in a month after heavyweight tech stocks climbed, recovering from a morning sell-off. The tech-heavy index rose 2.2 per cent on Wednesday, with gains accelerating in the late afternoon. Nvidia jumped 8 per cent, leading an advance for the rest of its Magnificent Seven peers. The Nasdaq
Raphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.Bloomberg News Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic violated the central bank’s trading rules and policies in 2022, according to a government watchdog report. The Federal Reserve’s Office of the Inspector General, or OIG, released the findings from its review
Municipal triple-A scales were little changed Wednesday, ignoring the U.S. Treasury market’s weaker tone following August inflation data that tempered expectations of a higher rate cut this month, while investors focused on the muni primary as more large new-issues cleared the market. The August consumer price index showed inflation remains above the Federal Reserve’s target
Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House US secretary of state Antony Blinken and UK foreign secretary David Lammy held talks in Kyiv with Ukrainian officials on Wednesday about possibly lifting restrictions on Ukraine using western-made weapons to conduct
In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Despite the increasingly partisan sentiment in the cryptocurrency industry, bitcoin will thrive over the long term regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential election in November. That’s a view many crypto investors are coming to accept, as the
Chattanooga, Tennessee’s issuer default rating and general obligation rating were downgraded to AA-plus by Fitch Ratings. The outlook is stable. Fitch explained the downgrade, which stemmed from the implementation of Fitch’s revised local government rating criteria, by citing a weak population trend and midrange demographic and economic level metrics. The city had $351 million in
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump shined no new light on the economic and tax policies important to the municipal bond market during their high-stakes debate Tuesday night, though brief mentions of housing, energy policy and tariffs carry modest interest to participants. “The debate was pretty light in general,” said Matt Fabian,
Thanks to the run up in housing prices, homeowners now have more than $32 trillion in home equity as of the first quarter of 2024, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve — an all-time high. “It’s one of the very few things we can say about today’s housing market that is, more or less, positive,” said
House Republicans are turning up the heat on their war against environmental, social and governance considerations in capital markets, this time going after proxy advisors who provide ESG-related services to investment officers. That was the subject of a House Financial Services Committee hearing Tuesday, which quickly descended into a partisan battle on whether investors need
Robust weekly issuance has become the norm over the past several months, as pent-up capital needs, dwindling federal aid and front-loaded issuance have prompted state and local governments to come to market in earnest. The pace of issuance is not letting up, leading some strategists to revise their 2024 volume forecasts higher again. HilltopSecurities recently
Grace Cary | Moment | Getty Images Inflation continued to throttle back in August, signaling that the fast-rising prices that plagued the U.S. economy for the better part of the three years during the pandemic era are increasingly shifting into the rearview mirror. Overall inflationary pressures are “dissipating,” said Sarah House, senior economist at Wells