“Yes, people tend to want [results] immediately. This is understandable,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told a conference in Kyiv last weekend, speaking about Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive. “But this is not like a feature movie, where everything happens in an hour and a half.” The idea that Ukrainian forces, lacking any air cover, would storm through Russian
One year after its historic transition to proof of stake, Ethereum has seen a massive reduction in energy use and a marked improvement in access to the network, however, a number of technical issues still mark the road ahead. The Merge was executed on Sept. 15, 2022 — an event that saw the Ethereum mainnet
US oil prices topped $90 a barrel for the first time this year on expectations of tighter supply, raising fresh concerns that they will drive the US inflation rate higher. The price of West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, climbed as much as 2.2 per cent to $90.50 a barrel in lunchtime trading on
Receive free Chinese politics & policy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese politics & policy news every morning. The US government believes Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu has been placed under investigation in the latest sign of turmoil among elite members of Beijing’s military and foreign policy
Receive free Private equity updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Private equity news every morning. Private equity firms have started to borrow against their funds to backstop overly indebted portfolio companies, a new financial engineering tactic meant to cope with higher interest rates and a slowdown in dealmaking.
Capital outflows in the crypto industry reached $55 billion in August, according to a report released by crypto exchange Bitfinex. The analysis is based on the aggregate realized value metric, which measures the realized capital of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) with the combined supply from the top five stablecoins: Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC),
Matter Labs recently announced the launch of a new ecosystem portal for zkSync, managed by DappRadar, in what both partners are calling a step towards fully decentralizing the protocol. zkSync is a layer-two blockchain for Ethereum payments. It was created by Matter Labs as a method for scaling the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem. It currently boasts
Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Michael Gove’s flagship renters’ reform bill, which would end “no-fault” evictions in England, has again been put on ice, sparking a furious blame game in government over why it keeps being delayed. Some
In the latest episode of Cointelegraph’s Market Talks, host Ray Salmond speaks with Jamie Coutts, a chartered market technician and crypto market analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. When asked whether Bitcoin’s (BTC) pre- and post-halving price action could differ from previous cycles due to a change in global monetary policy, Coutts said: “I’ve been writing about
Municipals were little changed Thursday as U.S. Treasuries were weaker and equities rallied. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Thursday was at 63%, the three-year was at 64%, the five-year at 66%, the 10-year at 70% and the 30-year at 90%, according to Refinitiv MMD’s 3 p.m. read. ICE Data Services had the two-year at 64%, the
For a long time, Solana (SOL) has been associated with the founder of now insolvent crypto exchange FTX and hedge fund Alameda Research, Sam Bankman Fried. He was an early investor in the project and invested in numerous Solana ecosystem projects during the 2020-2021 bull mania. So when FTX collapsed toward the end of 2022,
A Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bondholder and bond insurer asked an appeals court to quickly approve the appointment of a receiver of their choosing with the hope that they can take over the authority and get a better deal than the Oversight Board’s plan of adjustment. GoldenTree Asset Management and bond insurer Syncora Guarantee
As transit agencies across the country face a dreaded fiscal cliff when federal stimulus dollars dry up, those agencies that win permanent revenue from their states and local governments will boost their profile while others will see their credit erode. That’s the view of experts who spoke at a transit panel Wednesday at The Bond
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addressed municipal bond investors and other market participants for the first time Wednesday during The Bond Buyer’s infrastructure conference in Chicago, the same day the administration floated a budget forecast showing a $538 million gap heading into next year. Johnson, in a fireside chat with Chief Financial Officer Jill Jaworski, said
Receive free Arm Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Arm Ltd news every morning. Shares in SoftBank-backed chipmaker Arm jumped by 10 per cent as it began trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Thursday. Arm opened at $56.10 per share on Thursday afternoon, significantly above the $51
Criticisms aimed at the perceived centralization of Ethereum (ETH) staking pools may finally be quelled by an alternative staking infrastructure that aims to improve private key security and reduce validator down times and slashing penalties. Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph, SSV.network founder Alon Muroch outlined how the platform’s distributed validator technology (DVT) developed in partnership with the
Bitcoin (BTC) headed higher into the Sep. 14 Wall Street open despite fresh macro data showing resurgent United States inflation. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin gains while U.S. PPI beats forecast Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC price action as it made new September highs, topping out at $26,762. Bitcoin built
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San Diego Unified School District expects to price next week $670 million of green and sustainability general obligation bonds with a refunding component for savings. The bonds will support California’s second largest school district’s massive modernization and building program, help it stay on track to be powered 100% by clean energy by 2035 and provide
Fifteen years ago, the financial world became obsessed with bank capital ratios. For after Lehman Brothers imploded, there was a race to tighten capital and liquidity standards. And this continues, even today. Right now, for example, the American government is trying to implement a new wave of Basel III rules, sparking a furious backlash from
Receive free UK infrastructure updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK infrastructure news every morning. The British government on Thursday refused to commit to building the northern section of the High Speed 2 rail line between Birmingham and Manchester, prompting fresh fears about the project. Speculation about the