Municipals were slightly firmer Wednesday as the New York City Transitional Finance Authority came to market with a $1.8 billion deal with small bumps from its retail offering and inflows into exchange-traded funds topped $1 billion. U.S. Treasuries and equities rallied following the consumer price index report that came in softer than expected. April’s CPI
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Local leaders are already looking toward reauthorization of federal infrastructure funds as the Biden administration’s infrastructure law nears its halfway point with a focus on preserving the law’s substantial direct funding to cities, counties and regional governments as well as strengthening assistance to smaller entities that have faced challenges snagging some of the grant funding.
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John Sheldon, a veteran broker-dealer, was appointed deputy treasurer of public finance by California Treasurer Fiona Ma. Ma announced Tuesday Sheldon had been named to replace Juan Fernandez, who retired in late February. Sheldon, who has more than 30 years of experience, was sworn in on Tuesday. “This position requires an experienced financial practitioner with
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Houston Mayor John Whitmire proposed a fiscal 2025 budget Tuesday that uses remaining federal pandemic funding to fill a $160 million structural gap and accommodate higher spending, while he puts “everything on the table” to come up with a recurring solution heading into fiscal 2026. Whitmire, who took office in January, said the $6.7 billion
Brightline West is providing a road map for rail projects looking for federal funding as their planned route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas includes union labor, train sets built in the U.S. and teaming up with Uncle Sam to get the financing done. “Governments have a superpower as it relates to expediting these projects,”
Loading… Loading… In a surprising turn of events, venture capital firm General Catalyst, an early investor of companies like Snap Inc., Stripe and Mistral, is on the brink of raising nearly $6 billion for tech start-up investments, despite the current fundraising drought in the sector. What Happened: General Catalyst could finalize its latest fund as
Americas young voters are fired up about the war in Gazaarent they? Campus protests and the controversies around them have dominated media attention for weeks. So has the possibility that youth anger about the war will cost President Joe Biden the election. Joe Biden Is Losing Young Voters Over Israel, a USA Today headline declared
WASHINGTON Millions of dollars from US pension funds including those of New York’s police officers and firefighters are likely invested in ByteDance, the Chinese-controlled parent company of TikTok that is under a standing order from Congress to sell off the popular social media platform or face its banning. The non-profit investment-watchdog group Future Union has
Yacht-see! Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg reportedly flew to Panama to celebrate his 40th birthday — where the billionaire’s alleged brand-new $300 million superyacht was docked. Zuckerberg, who has been linked to the 387-foot-long vessel called Launchpad for months but has never publicly confirmed whether he is the owner, traveled to the Central American nation on
Representative Lauren Boebert had an important point to make. But it could be difficult to hear the rabble-rousing Republican from Colorado over a packed-in crowd of counter-agitators. So this is what the students here at GW University are facing each and every day, Boebert was trying to say into a bank of microphones in the
The Consumer Price Index rose 3.4% in April from a year ago — easing from the previous month but still well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target as it looks to tamp down inflation. The latest monthly figure eased slightly from 3.5% in March to 3.4% in April, in line with economists’ forecasts, according to
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The National Football League’s Cleveland Browns recently met with state legislators in Ohio to discuss plans including a new $2.4 billion domed stadium in Brook Park — about 14 miles southwest of Cleveland — for which the team wants public funding. “We know that there are two proposals being floated, but they certainly have not
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A home is offered for sale on March 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Mortgage rates last week dropped to the lowest level since April, but buyers are still struggling to afford today’s housing market. As a result, mortgage demand flattened at a weak pace. Total mortgage application volume inched up
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