Imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has not yet received a consular visit from American officials, but official human rights monitors affiliated with the Russian government say he is reading Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman while in pretrial detention at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison. In the first account of his condition in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison
Lord Lawson of Blaby, who has died at the age of 91, was one of the most consequential and longest-serving British chancellors of the 20th century, playing a pivotal role in Margaret Thatcher’s free-market revolution. Revered by the Tory right and an inspiration to current prime minister Rishi Sunak, Nigel Lawson pushed through a vigorous
The water industry regulator has fined just one privatised utility for breaching regulations designed to prevent sewage spills in England since the rules came into force almost 30 years ago, according to official data. Despite hundreds of thousands of sewage spills into rivers and coastal waters in recent years, Ofwat’s only fine for breaching the
INX has launched its first securities token issued by a public company, according to an Apr. 3 announcement from the tokenization platform. Public company shares on the blockchain?Witness the future in action!Proud to team up with @Greenbriarcorp to tokenize its GEBRF traditional shares in an industry-first!https://t.co/sS4p5MIwa3 — INX (@INX_Group) April 3, 2023 The new token
Nigel Lawson, the long-serving Conservative chancellor whose radical tax-cutting Budgets of the late 1980s inspired a Tory generation, has died at the age of 91. Lord Lawson was an iconic figure for the Tory right and Rishi Sunak, prime minister, led the tributes to a man whose economic policies underpinned the Thatcher revolution. “One of
Blackstone clients asked to pull $4.5bn from a closely followed real estate fund in March, even as the firm’s executives were promoting investment opportunities in the sector that they said would arise from US economic turbulence. Withdrawal requests at the $70bn fund, called Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, rose 15 per cent in
On Monday, Twitter users noticed that the traditional blue bird logo had been replaced by a cartoon picture of Doge. Meanwhile, the leading meme coin cryptocurrency, Dogecoin, jumped 23% higher against the U.S. dollar after the logo change. Twitter Bird Logo Changes to Doge Twitter has updated its logo, replacing it with a picture of
Cryptocurrency markets have been trading within an unusually tight 5% range since March 17 as conflicting forces continue to pressure the sector. Consequently, in the past 7 days, the total market capitalization gained 3.8%, which was driven mainly by Bitcoin’s (BTC) 3.6% price increase and Ether’s (ETH) 5% gain. On March 27, the Commodity Futures
In this article HOOD SBNY SIVB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A woman leaves a Signature Bank branch on March 13, 2023 in New York City. The bank was closed by regulators Sunday. Leonardo Munoz | View Press | Corbis News | Getty Images The sudden failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank
Municipals were firmer in spots to kick off the week, while U.S. Treasury yields fell and equities ended mixed. Triple-A yields fell one to four basis points Monday while USTs were stronger by up to 10 basis points to close the session. The two-year muni-Treasury ratio was at 60%, the three-year at 61%, the five-year
The Puerto Rico Oversight Board said Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bondholders are making “unreasonable” demands in their discovery in the agency’s bankruptcy. “The bondholders’ approach to discovery in this case has been marked by unreasonable demands and timelines,” the board said through its attorney in a response filed late Friday in the bankruptcy. “The
The California State Treasurer’s Office will pick up the tab for the May interest payment on bonds issued for a state research laboratory damaged by massive flooding in Tulare, a city in the state’s agricultural stronghold in the Central Valley. The California State Public Works board filed an event notice Thursday saying damage to the
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price initially dipped, but then recovered on April 3. The volatility happened after several OPEC+ members announced plans to cut oil production totaling 1.65 million barrels per day until the end of the year. Some analysts expect this move to tighten supply, resulting in higher prices at the pump. That may in turn
The United States Federal Reserve began its most aggressive quantitative tightening efforts in March 2022, raising benchmark interest rates in the year since from near-zero to 4.75% to 5% annually. While the central bank has successfully brought down inflation to some degree, the increasing interest rates are starting to cause cracks in the global banking
sponsored Bitquery launched its Streaming API in early March, giving users to access blockchain data in real time. With Bitquery’s APIs, Web3 builders have had access to extensive data from over 40+ blockchain networks. As the demand for blockchain data continues to grow, Bitquery has been at the forefront of providing reliable and comprehensive data
On April 3, 2023, the Dfinity Foundation, a development team behind the Internet Computer (ICP) network, announced the launch of a native ICP token called “chain-key bitcoin” or “ckBTC.” The bitcoin derivative is backed 1:1 with the leading cryptocurrency asset. On Monday, Dfinity detailed that the technology “builds on the protocol-level integration with the Bitcoin
Chicago Public Schools moved closer to investment grade status with an S&P Global Ratings upgrade last week that came just one week after district leaders again sounded alarms of a gaping budget hole once federal COVID-19 aid runs out. Governance changes are also coming after Tuesday’s runoff election picks a replacement for Mayor Lori
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Best Execution proposal is receiving significant pushback from the muni market for its overlap with existing rules at the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and for other concerns unique to fixed income markets that advocates say could lead to significant consequences. That’s according to comments
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Bitcoin (BTC) stayed tightly rangebound at the April 3 Wall Street open as analysts counted down to volatility. “Watch for rugs” on BTC Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it lingered around $28,000 on Bitstamp. The weekend had finished on an erratic note as news of a Opec+ oil production cut sent
On Monday, April 3, the decentralized exchange (dex) platform Pancakeswap launched version 3 of its protocol (v3) on the Binance Coin (bnb) and Ethereum blockchains. The new application aims to improve the performance of the dex protocol and reduce fees by implementing four levels of trading fees. New Features and Improved Capital Efficiency Offered in