Outflows from crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) reached $455 million over the previous nine weeks, according to a report from asset manager CoinShares. Outflows from ETPs generally indicate negative sentiment toward cryptocurrencies. Let’s analyse the latest dynamics in digital asset investment products. Here is our #FundFlows with @jbutterfill. Last week, outflows totalled US$54m.There have been outflows
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The Texas Water Development Board is planning a $1 billion bond sale next week to finance water-related projects for local governments as the drought-prone state awaits a November vote on a constitutional amendment to further support water supply infrastructure. The State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for Texas revenue bonds are scheduled to price Sept. 27
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U.S. homebuilders are feeling pessimistic about their business for the first time in seven months, thanks to stubbornly high mortgage rates. Builder confidence in the single-family housing market fell 5 points in September to 45 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. The decrease follows a 6-point drop in August. Anything
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Homeowners renewing their insurance are seeing their premiums increase more than 20% according to a recent study, making housing even more expensive for a growing number of Americans. The study, conducted by Policygenius, found that Florida experienced the largest jump with premiums increasing by 35%. The steep increases in homeowner’s insurance costs contribute to the
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Receive free EU trade updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest EU trade news every morning. Germany has led condemnation of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia’s unilateral curbs on grain imports from Ukraine, accusing the countries of cherry-picking EU policies and putting their own interests over Ukraine. The remarks by
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A recent study from PolicyGenius found that quoted homeowner’s insurance premiums increased by 21% nationally from May 2022 to May 2023. Florida experienced the largest jump with premiums increasing by 35%. The steep increases in homeowner’s insurance costs contribute to the already intractable housing affordability crisis, as homeowners must allocate more of their incomes to
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Malta’s Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has begun public consultation over changes in its crypto regulations in order to align with Europe’s Markets in crypto-assets (MICA) regulations set to take effect in December 2024. The public consultation period is open until Sept. 29. The revised rulebook proposes changes to the rules for exchanges, custodians and portfolio
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It’s a foregone conclusion the Federal Open Market Committee won’t raise the fed funds target rate at its Sept. 19-20 meeting, so the market will concentrate on the updated Summary of Economic Projections and Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference. “The Fed will try to deliver a hawkish hold on September 20, also driving home the
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When you think of building a solidly constructed home, you most likely do not think about foam as being part of it. There are builders using it though, for good reason. When it is used in home construction—maybe as a marketing tactic—it’s not typically referred to as foam in the specification process, but rather as
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Receive free Protectionism updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Protectionism news every morning. “Trade freely with China and time is on our side.” That was the confident view of George W Bush, the former US president, in the run-up to China joining the World Trade Organization in 2001.
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