Nuveen’s former longtime head of municipals John Miller has landed at New York-based First Eagle Investments, where he will oversee the firm’s debut in the municipal bond market. Miller, 56, is expected to join the firm in January, where he will set up a new muni department that will focus on junk bonds, his specialty
On this week’s episode of Macro Markets, Cointelegraph analyst Marcel Pechman discusses the real estate markets, highlighting stagnant mortgage demand, attributed to rising rates. With an average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage interest rate of 7.27%, refinancing and home purchase applications have dropped significantly. Still, Pechman speculates that house prices might rise if inflation continues to grow.
New Jersey’s American Dream Mall reported a $245 million loss as costs increases outstripped modest revenue gains in 2022. According to a three-page financial document posted on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA bond disclosure website Monday, the mall, developed with help of large public financing package, reported a loss four times bigger than the
Receive free Currencies updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Currencies news every morning. The dollar climbed to a six-month high on Friday at the end of a week when US stock and bond markets weakened and investors prepared for a prolonged period of high interest rates. The currency
The writer is director and chief executive of Chatham House, a think-tank Better that Labour’s intentions towards Europe become clear now. Better for voters in the next general election, obviously, but better for the party itself that contradictions in this most important plank of its foreign policy are resolved early. That was one useful product
Crispin Odey faces the first lawsuit stemming from allegations against the financier of multiple instances of sexual misconduct over decades. Two of his alleged victims have submitted a civil claim in the high court against him and the hedge fund firm he founded, Odey Asset Management. The court granted anonymity for the two women during
In this article SGEN PDD SCHL DE SQSP F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A visitor views a titanium hybrid 2020 Ford Escape FWD small SUV at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto, Ontario, Canada February 18, 2020. Chris Helgren | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Ford —
The Federal Reserve did not hike interest rates in its meeting on Sep. 20 but hinted that rates could remain higher for longer. At the post-meeting press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell cautioned that “the process of getting inflation sustainably down to 2% has a long way to go.” This possible scenario may have triggered
California State Controller Malia Cohen has agreed to chair a task force to establish audit criteria and best practices to detect and curtail charter school fraud following a case that cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars. Cohen said she stepped forward when she learned of the prosecution of the San Diego charter school
Receive free Conservative Party UK updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Conservative Party UK news every morning. Dinner with the UK chancellor, golf with David Cameron and a “political night in” with ministers and advisers were among the items auctioned at an exclusive Conservative party fundraiser on Thursday
Dustin Jones’ story captures the inability of New York’s public transit agency to serve a significant portion of the public. Trying to take the subway to a meeting of the Center for the Independence of the Disabled, New York, in 2017, Jones, a wheelchair user, couldn’t enter the 5 train, which went directly from his
Bitcoin (BTC) circled lower after the Sept. 21 Wall Street open as $20,000 BTC price predictions resurfaced. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin analysis: Hype, FOMO and a “slow grind” to $28,500 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView covered a lackluster 24 hours for BTC price action, with $27,000 fading from view. The aftermath
In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A shopper for Instacart navigates through the aisles as she shops for a customer. Cyrus McCrimmon | Denver Post | Getty Images The Great IPO Reopening may be on hold: rising rates and lower stocks are an IPO killer. A combination of still-high valuations, a mediocre
In this article PDD CHTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A paramedic prepares doses of AstraZeneca vaccine for patients at a walk-in COVID-19 clinic inside a Buddhist temple in the Smithfield suburb of Sydney on August 4, 2021. Saeed Khan | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in early trading.
Receive free Renewable energy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Renewable energy news every morning. Climate news sometimes feels almost too painful to read. I had to force myself to get through last week’s report that levels of Antarctic sea-ice are shrinking at “mind-blowing” speeds. But while the
Anna Wintour would like us to meet for lunch at The Ritz London, but when I inquire about a table for an FT interview, the restaurant turns me down. A call from one of Wintour’s two personal assistants later, and the receptionist emails to apologise: “I was not aware you were attending with Anna Wintour.”
Receive free Eurozone economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Eurozone economy news every morning. Eurozone businesses were hit by the biggest fall in new orders for almost three years, as price pressures cooled and demand for hiring new staff remained weak, increasing fears of an economic contraction
Architectural design and spacious gardens give the small central Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende its indisputable charm. The same could be said of a $4 million compound in the historic center near one of the city’s landmark green spaces. Casa Las Palmas at Solano 81, Centro, across from Benito Juarez Park dates to
A paper published by the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) concluded that Bitcoin (BTC) has the potential to be a catalyst for a global energy transition. IRM Energy and Renewables Group members Dylan Campbell and Alexander Larsen published a report titled “Bitcoin and the Energy Transition: From Risk to Opportunity.” The paper argued that while
Receive free UK economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK economy news every morning. UK economic activity has fallen at the fastest pace since January 2021, according to a closely watched survey that suggests the chances of a recession have increased. With service sector activity weakening, the
The global risk of housing bubbles has decreased sharply in 2023. A report released Wednesday by Swiss bank UBS concludes that out of 25 cities surveyed, only two were at risk of a housing bubble this year, down from nine each in the previous two reports. The data shows that even places known for their