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Tim Cook is not known for the theatrical flair that came naturally for Steve Jobs, the late Apple co-founder. But after 12 years as Apple’s chief executive, the softly spoken Alabama native appears to be discovering his inner Hollywood mogul. This weekend Apple will roll out acclaimed director Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ and distinguished fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics On the afternoon of October 7, as the extent of the carnage in southern Israel
People in Bar’am, a kibbutz about 300 metres from the Lebanese border, are accustomed to living close to a country that hosts the Iran-backed, anti-Israel militant group Hizbollah — close enough, as one resident said, to hear the sounds of mosques and “wave to people” on the other side. The community in the Galilee Heights,
Over two dozen former employees of Ethereum infrastructure firm ConsenSys have filed a fresh lawsuit against the firm’s founder and CEO, Joseph Lubin, over claims he diluted employee equity shares against earlier promises. The former staff allege that Lubin — who is also a co-founder of Ethereum — breached this “no-dilution promise” made in 2015,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Labour party has seized a previously safe Conservative party seat in England in an ominous blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a UK general election expected next year. Labour, Britain’s main opposition
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US foreign policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Joe Biden urged Congress on Thursday to approve a security package for Israel and Ukraine worth tens of billions of dollars, saying America needed to overcome its domestic divisions to protect two vital allies
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A closely watched UK consumer confidence survey has registered its biggest month-on-month drop in more than three years, as households contend with surging mortgage and rental costs, and higher petrol prices. The GfK consumer confidence
Labour candidate Sarah Edwards won the Tamworth by-election with 11,719 votes © Andrew Fox/FT The Labour party has seized the safe Conservative party seat of Tamworth, in a blow to prime minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a UK general election expected next year. Sarah Edwards, the candidate for Britain’s main opposition party Labour, won the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI is in talks with investors about selling shares at a valuation of $86bn, roughly three times what it was worth six months ago, as advances in artificial intelligence transform the market’s appetite for the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A US warship deployed to the Middle East shot down three cruise missiles and several drones fired by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen that may have been aimed at targets in Israel, the Pentagon has said.
Stablecoin issuer Circle has launched a new tool that it says will allow developers to “remove the complexity” of building Web3 apps, according to an announcement and accompanying social media post on October 19. Called “Smart Contract Platform,” the new tool allows developers to deploy smart contracts using a set of pre-vetted code templates and
Chattanooga, Tennessee, fetched AAA ratings ahead of its planned general obligation bond sale. Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings both affirmed Chattanooga’s AAA issuer rating while assigning the same to an upcoming competitive sale of $40.2 million of general obligation bonds by the city expected on or around Oct. 31. The outlook is stable on
Municipals weakened further Thursday as outflows from muni mutual funds lessened, while short-term U.S. Treasury yields fell after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell suggested central bankers could raise rates again, but not at the upcoming meeting. Equities sold off. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Thursday was at 71%, the three-year was at 71%, the five-year at 70%,
Moody’s Investors Service revised the outlook on Oklahoma’s Aa2 rating to positive from stable on Wednesday, citing the state’s “strong reserves, low leverage, and expected budgetary balance.” The action followed S&P Global Ratings’ placement of a positive outlook on the state’s AA rating in July. Moody’s said reserves will help in the management of Oklahoma’s
Chicago received a credit boost Thursday from Fitch Ratings, which upgraded its general obligation rating to BBB-plus from BBB, due to a decline in the city’s long-term liability burden stemming from steady growth in the economic resource base and improved debt management practices. The rating agency also raised the rating on sales tax securitization bonds
Nevada plans to sell $504.8 million in general obligation bonds next week. In one deal, the state will surpass the GO issuance of any previous year in the past five years, according to Refinitiv data. Since 2017, the state has sold $1.2 billion in total GO debt, according to Refinitiv. The state is issuing more
Municipal market participants have had to get creative to manage the current market but should not get creative on the regulatory front, warned one of the market’s key Washington regulators. “Regulators often talk about when there is reduced issuance, this is where a lot of problematic deals come up,” said David Sanchez, head of the
Higher interest rates, macroeconomic uncertainties and outflows from mutual funds resulted in a rather gloomy outlook from panelists assessing the state of the union for the muni bond market at The Bond Buyer’s California Public Finance conference in San Francisco. Broker-dealers are experiencing a myriad of pressures. Individual bankers are putting in longer hours for
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has endorsed a plan to increase the state and local tax deductions to $20,000 for individuals and $40,000 for couples in a bid to win over more Republicans, especially from blue states, in an indication that the issue could play a serious role in the negotiations over who will ascend to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At Blackstone, the march to a second trillion dollars in assets is off to a slow start. Three months ago, the House of Schwarzman proudly celebrated being the first “alternative” capital firm to pass into