Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. Issuance of housing bonds for the first half of the year was at $22.243 billion in 357 issues, up 31.7% from 1H 2023’s figure of $16.891 billion in 381 issues. Volume rose in both the first and second quarters, with the former
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Regular readers of FT Alphaville may have formed the impression that its current and former writers are united in scepticism about crypto in general and bitcoin in particular. This is correct.  FTAV posts between June
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bitcoin’s hit $100,000. Congrats on the money, everyone! It’s challenging to discern what’s on the horizon for crypto after this big round number, given the well-known and glaring problems with trying to figure out how
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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The author is an FT contributing editor and writes the Chartbook newsletter Remember January 2021? Joe Biden came into office loudly proclaiming: “America is back!” Antony Blinken, as secretary of state, was fond
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Just five years ago Syria’s Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham was a beleaguered jihadist force fighting to survive after years of attacks by the Russian-backed Assad regime. Now, in its stronghold of Idlib province, HTS boasts a military academy; a centralised command; rapidly deployable specialist units including infantry, artillery, special operations, tanks, drones and
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bitcoin has surged above $100,000 for the first time, extending a dramatic rally as investors bet on greater political and regulatory support from US president-elect Donald Trump. The price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency has
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US stocks closed at a record high, pushed up by semiconductor stocks and even as Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell said the central bank could afford to “be a little more cautious” about interest rate cuts. Powell said the US was “the envy of other large economies around the world” and that the Fed could
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<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20627705/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals were steady Wednesday as the market saw another heavy slate of new issuance and inflows continued into muni mutual funds. U.S. Treasuries made gains and equities broke more records. Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell in a televised interview Wednesday said “little to alter the market’s view that
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome PowellBloomberg News NEW YORK — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is not worried about a so-called “shadow chair” undermining him during the Trump administration. “I don’t think that’s on the table at all,” Powell said during an onstage interview with journalist and anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday. The idea of
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Tax-exempt Liberty Bonds that financed the Frank Gehry-designed 8 Spruce apartments were refinanced this week.Adobe Stock Blackstone Inc. is refinancing $550 million of municipal debt for 8 Spruce St., a 76-story residential tower in downtown Manhattan designed by famed architect Frank Gehry.   New York City’s Housing Development Corp. priced the debt Tuesday on behalf of
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The French parliament on Wednesday voted to oust prime minister Michel Barnier over his proposed deficit-cutting budget, plunging the country into deeper political turmoil. A motion of no confidence was approved by 331 votes in
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