New York City’s economy has proven to be more resilient than previously projected, while a surplus from the last fiscal year combined with savings from a program to cut budget gaps, helped keep the books balanced despite rising costs from addressing the influx of migrants. While fiscal 2024 growth projections suggest a modest slowdown, the
The Bitcoin Frontier Fund, formerly Stacks Ventures, launched what it’s calling the first Bitcoin Ordinals accelerator program on Aug. 14. Program Information This program is led by VC @TO & is a 4-month program for builders to raise funding, connect with mentors, & be guided by the best in the industry (sneak peak below). It
Bitcoin (BTC) has been stuck inside a tight range in August. Glassnode lead on-chain analyst Checkmate highlighted that the spread between the upper and lower Bollinger Bands for Bitcoin has shrunk to 2.9%, its third tightest ever. Typically, periods of low volatility are followed by a range expansion. The longer the time spent inside a
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov is renting a new pad in the emirate’s ritzy neighborhood. Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of encrypted messaging app Telegram, has splashed out on a new home in one of Dubai’s ritziest neighborhoods, according to several sources familiar with the
After more than 35 years in the public finance industry, the last 15 at Fitch Ratings, Ann Flynn has retired. Flynn’s seat on the Northeast Women in Public Finance board is now held by Arlene Bohner, Fitch’s head of U.S. public finance, whom Flynn hired. Bohner said she hopes to carry on Flynn’s commitment to
A computer crash at the Bank of England, involving one of its most vital payment services, delayed thousands of house purchases and other high value transactions on Monday, as the bank promised to investigate the matter. The central bank said it had been hit by “a technical issue” which prevented it opening a vital payment
British audit firm Crowe UK and its chief executive Nigel Bostock have been charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for failures in its audit of a music streaming company that went public on Nasdaq in the Spac boom. Akazoo, a Scotland-incorporated, Greece-headquartered company, claimed to have almost 40mn registered users and $120mn in
The writer is executive director of American Compass Last week, officials briefing reporters on President Joe Biden’s long-awaited executive order restricting American investment in China used the words “narrow” and “narrowly” no fewer than 10 times in half an hour. They emphasised that new rules would reach just three “national security sensitive technologies”: advanced semiconductors,
In this article UBSG-CH UBS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT General view of the UBS building in Manhattan, New York, June 5, 2023. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez | View Press | Corbis News | Getty Images Swiss bank UBS agreed to pay a combined $1.4 billion in civil penalties over fraud and misconduct in its
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Aug. 22, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. AMC — Shares of the movie theater stock sank almost 35% after a judge late Friday approved AMC Entertainment’s plan to convert its preferred shares to common stock.
S&P Global Ratings’ announcement it will not release new or updated environmental, social, and governance credit indicators in public finance comes amid confusion over their impact on bond ratings, as well as an anti-ESG backlash that produced a deluge of legislation this year to stop the factors’ encroachment in government activities. The rating agency called
From its groundbreaking in 1969 as a residential development, private St. John’s Island north of Vero Beach, Florida, has been aimed at those with “discerning tastes.” Fast-forward to 2023, and the private barrier island community of 1,650 acres in Indian River Shores boasts such amenities as three championship golf courses, tennis, a beach club and
By unveiling its stablecoin, PayPal is attempting to claim a share of the growing cryptocurrency market. The company says that PYUSD will be able to support quick fund transfers for various purposes, such as remittances. PayPal has also indicated that the new cryptocurrency will be compatible with Web3 environments and will eventually be available on
Bitcoin (BTC) hit multi-day highs after the Aug. 14 Wall Street open as modest volatility trickled through to the market. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin traders provide “some action” after flat weekend Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked a trip past $29,500, marking the highest BTC price levels since Aug. 10. Unusually
The rouble is a petrocurrency. Crude oil is a quarter of Russian exports, the largest component. Brent, still the international benchmark for oil, has risen by a fifth in the past two months. Despite that, Russia’s currency has sunk nearly as much against the dollar. On Monday alone it lost some 2 per cent. One
One of Europe’s biggest buyout groups, CVC Capital Partners, has revived plans for a multibillion-euro stock market listing that could come before the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter. The secretive firm, which owns the maker of PG Tips tea and has made major bets on rugby and Formula One,
Metaverse platform The Sandbox (SAND) has unlocked a total of 332 million SAND tokens, which is around 16% of the digital asset’s current circulating supply. The unlocked tokens are worth around $133 million at the time of the unlock. On Aug. 14, The Sandbox proceeded with its scheduled unlock for over 300 million tokens. According
Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm TeraWulf has seen a drastic increase in BTC rewards since increasing its mining capacity in the first half of 2023. According to the company’s latest quarterly filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, TeraWulf mined a total of 1,441 BTC through the first half of the year. 508 BTC was
Workers replace a roller that compresses steel at the A&T Stainless steel plant in Midland, Pennsylvania, March 2, 2020. Michael Rayne Swensen | Bloomberg via Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. U.S. Steel — Shares of the steel producer surged more than 26% premarket after it rejected a $7.3 billion buyout
Russia’s central bank said it may increase its key interest rate after the rouble fell to less than Rbs100 to the dollar on Monday, prompting policymakers to squabble over how to deal with the economic fallout from President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Nearly a year and a half after Putin ordered the invasion, Russia’s
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rupak Ghose is a former financials research analyst at Credit Suisse. It’s time to do the unthinkable — defend a Goldman Sachs CEO. For anyone who has worked on Wall Street there is a bit