Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump will next month become the first former US president to face a criminal trial, after a New York state judge declined to dismiss or delay the “hush money” case brought against him over
Career muni analyst and advisor Patrick Early has joined the Treasury Department’s Office of State and Local Finance as a senior policy analyst at a time when the details of major legislative proposals, such as the Federal Data Transparency Act and the Basel III Endgame proposal are set to impact the municipal market. The move
Airports in nearly every state will receive $970 million in federal grants for terminal makeovers, the White House announced Thursday. The funding, which goes to 114 airports in 44 states and three territories, marks the third round of Airport Terminal Program grants under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which allocated a total of $5
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK interest rates myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A Bank of England rate-setter has said she will not vote to cut the cost of borrowing before seeing more evidence that inflation is returning to the central bank’s target. Megan Greene said on
Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. Infrastructure projects to watch this year include the reconstruction of the Interstate 5 bridge in Oregon, which received federal funding, as well as the Biden administration’s prioritization of high-speed rail systems on the West Coast. Read more about these and other infrastructure
States have queued up a robust pipeline of public-private partnership deals in the transportation space even as the pace of federally-funded projects is expected to quicken ahead of the autumn election. “It’s a big pipeline this year,” said Robert Poole, senior transportation director at Reason Foundation, who spoke with The Bond Buyer for an upcoming
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s recession was variously described by economists on Thursday as “technical” and “shallow”, but in the brutal political arena ahead of a general election it was given a different name: “Rishi’s recession”. The bare facts
Christina Weinberg has joined the team at Municipal Market Analytics as the new director of business development, where she’s focusing on expanding the firm’s reach. Weinberg has been working in the financial industry since 1998, including previous stints at TMC, BondWave, and Tradeweb. “I am absolutely thrilled to join MMA,” said Weinberg. ”I am looking
The Kentucky Office of the State Budget Director reported January’s general fund receipts increased to $1.3 billion, up 4.4% from the same time last year. Last month’s sales tax receipts hit a record high at $586.2 million. Large increases also occurred due to a new section of the individual income tax, the pass-through entity tax,
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. It was quite the Christmas present. In December, the Dutch technology company ASML started shipping 250 crates to Oregon to install a €350mn machine for the US chipmaker Intel. The Twinscan Exe: 5000,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israeli forces have raided southern Gaza’s largest hospital, destroying part of the compound as they searched for hostages being held by Hamas. The raid came a day after Israel ordered thousands of people sheltering in
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Eurozone economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The European Commission has downgraded its forecasts for EU and eurozone growth for the year, as higher interest rates weigh on economic activity, and said inflation was expected to halve from the highs of 2023.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer’s books include ‘The bank that lived a little: Barclays in the age of the very free market’ On February 20, Barclays’ chief executive C S Venkatakrishnan will be revealing the outcome of a
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One night in June 1942, a German U-boat dropped four Nazi saboteurs on a Hamptons beach. They took a train to New York, where their leader, George John Dasch, informed the FBI about them. Four
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak’s pledge to “grow the economy” suffered a serious blow on Thursday as official figures showed Britain entered a technical recession at the end of 2023. Labour claimed the prime minister’s promises on the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels has ramped up its fight against any anti-competitive behaviour by Big Tech giants but the response from some in the European start-up community might not be what regulators have been expecting. Last month, Amazon
Taher Mohammed knows all about the Houthis’ appetite for conflict. For eight years, he and his family hunkered down as the Yemeni rebels laid siege to their city of Taiz while battling forces loyal to the country’s ousted government. The former factory worker regarded the Iran-backed group as the aggressors in the civil war, during
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Citigroup has started tracking how many calls its private bankers are making to clients as the US lender tries to jump-start its struggling wealth management business, according to people familiar with the matter. Citi’s private
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Private equity executives need to “share the wealth” they create with workers at the companies they buy, according to the investment head of Calstrs, the giant US pension fund that is one of the world’s
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Since 1979, the year of the first direct elections to the European parliament, supporters of closer EU integration have demanded more powers for the assembly to improve the bloc’s effectiveness and democratic accountability. Successive reforms,
Russian forces closing in on the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka are an early test for Ukraine’s new top commander and for an army running short of ammunition and men as western military support falters. The battle for the industrial town 20km north of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk has been raging since October but fighting