An attorney for a Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bondholders group raised concerns Wednesday about an Oversight Board mailing to bondholders asking them to support its plan of adjustment, which would result in them getting a better deal than non-supporting bondholders. PREPA Ad Hoc Group attorney Eric Brunstad Jr. said at Wednesday’s Puerto Rico omnibus
Month: October 2023
Receive free Chinese business & finance updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese business & finance news every morning. Belgium’s intelligence service has been monitoring Alibaba’s main logistics hub in Europe for espionage following suspicions Beijing has been exploiting its growing economic presence in the west. European governments
In Cuba’s capital, Havana, a Bitcoin community has emerged from an economically antagonistic environment.“Satoshi didn’t create Bitcoin for Cubans, but it really comes in handy for us,” Forte, co-founder of the aptly named local Bitcoin organization Cuba Bitcoin, tells Magazine. Cubans are turning to Bitcoin because their money is increasingly worthless. Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Lebanon
Munis were slightly firmer in spots Wednesday with more of the focus on the primary, including a large taxable California general obligation bond sale in the competitive market, while U.S. Treasuries were better and equities ended the session up. The Investment Company Institute Wednesday reported investors pulled $2.407 billion from municipal bond mutual funds in
United States 10-year Treasury yields soared above 4.8% on Oct. 3, their highest level since 2007. DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that the spread between the 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields has narrowed from 109 basis points a few months ago to 35 basis points. He cautioned
In this article US10Y Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bill Gross, Portfolio Manager, Janus Capital Group Lucy Nicholson | Reuters Widely followed investor Bill Gross believes Treasury yields have the potential to shoot even higher in the short run. “I think we’re gonna go to five [percent],” Gross said on CNBC’s “Last Call” Tuesday,
In this article NVS CALM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Signage outside Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California, Jan. 30, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Intel — Shares popped 2.5% after the chipmaker announced it would be operating its programmable chip
As the calendar moves into autumn, clusters of wildflowers across Colorado are withering away, not to be seen again until springtime. While these blossoms may be disappearing for the time being, something else is blooming in Boulder County—a once-in-a-lifetime real estate opportunity. The Boulder Flower Farm, the region’s largest flower producer, has arrived on the
Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in the courtroom with his lawyers for his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on October 03, 2023 in New York City. Seth Wenig | Getty Images Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday returned to court for the third day of his $250 million business fraud
Cryptocurrency assets experienced inflows for the first time in six weeks during the week of Sep. 22-28, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report from European digital assets management firm CoinShares. Bitcoin was the biggest gainer with inflows in the amount of $20.4 million for the week. Good week, everyone. Here are
Munis were weaker Tuesday, but outperformed a U.S. Treasury selloff. Equities sold off as well. Triple-A yields rose anywhere from two to eight basis points while UST saw yields rise by as much as 13 basis points out long. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Tuesday was at 72%, the three-year was at 72%, the five-year at
Receive free Kevin McCarthy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Kevin McCarthy news every morning. Kevin McCarthy’s position as Speaker of the House of Representatives was in peril on Tuesday after 11 Republicans voted to proceed with an effort to oust him and Democrats said they would not
In 2021, Ardana Labs claimed it would provide an innovative stablecoin platform for the Cardano network. The new project, called “Ardana,” would allow investors to lock up crypto collateral and mint fiat-pegged stablecoins, including a U.S. dollar-based token called dUSD. It raised $10 million from investors that year, but it suddenly closed up shop in
The Securities and Exchange Commission has settled with New Orleans-based auditor Luther Speight and Company and its principal Luther Speight for violating the antifraud provisions of the Securities Act by failing to adhere to Generally Accepted Auditing Standards in connection with a Louisiana school board’s 2019 audit. Jacob Frenkel, chair of government investigations and securities
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price bull run towards $28,000 on Oct. 1 was partially fueled by the uncertainty regarding the United States debt limit. However, the U.S. President Joe Biden signed the spending bill just hours before the Sept. 30 deadline, avoiding a government shutdown. Investors now question if the momentum remains favorable for cryptocurrencies given that
Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management CEO, speaking at the Delivering Alpha conference in NYC on Sept. 28th, 2023. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said Friday that U.S. regulators have approved his unique special purpose acquisition company structure, and he’s ready to hunt for a deal. Investors in Ackman’s unfruitful SPAC, known as
In this article 11V-FF WMG PNT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Co-CEOs, Neil Blumenthal & Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker at the NYSE, September 29, 2021. Source: NYSE Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Warby Parker — Warby Parker jumped about 4% after Evercore ISI upgraded the eyeglass retailer to an
New York City real estate’s third quarter has taken both buyers and sellers on a wild ride. After an active early spring, the market entered June with a bang; the Olshan Luxury Market Report, tracking deals over $4 million in Manhattan, showed 31 transactions in each of June’s first two weeks and 32 in the
An aerial view of construction sites and new residential developments in the Nanchuan area of Xining, Qinghai province, China. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of embattled Chinese property giant Evergrande surged Tuesday after it resumed trading in Hong Kong. The stock rose 20.31% after briefly touching 46 Hong Kong cents shortly after the open. Shares have been
A group of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bondholders opposed to the Oversight Board’s proposed plan of adjustment identified its members Wednesday. The new faction, called the PREPA Ad Hoc Group, holds $2.1 billion in uninsured PREPA bonds and hundreds of millions of dollars more in insured bonds. $8.5 billion of PREPA bonds were outstanding
Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Rishi Sunak has defended his plan to axe the HS2 high speed rail line to Manchester, criticising the “enormous” cost of the project and saying he was prepared to take tough decisions. The
The $1.2 billion in private-activity bonds supporting Los Angeles International Airport’s people mover train have been removed from negative watch by Fitch Ratings and placed on negative outlook. The ratings on the bonds issued through the California Municipal Finance Authority were affirmed at BBB-minus. The people mover is the centerpiece of LAX’s $5.5 billion Landside
The United States legislators in the House and Senate came to a temporary agreement on Sep. 30 and averted a government shutdown for 45 days. This news could have acted as a catalyst for Bitcoin’s (BTC) sharp rally on Oct. 1. Additionally, the historically strong performance of Bitcoin in October could have boosted sentiment further.
Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management CEO, speaking at the Delivering Alpha conference in NYC on Sept. 28th, 2023. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire investor Bill Ackman would “absolutely” do a deal with X, the social platform previously known as Twitter, with his newly approved investment vehicle, Ackman told The Wall Street Journal in a story
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Rivian Automotive — Shares popped 3.3% in the premarket. Evercore ISI upgraded Rivian Automotive to outperform from in line, and raised its price target, saying the electric truck maker could be the next Tesla and BYD. The Sphere is seen during the opening night with U2:UV
The American dream of homeownership has historically been symbolic of financial success. But for millennials burdened by student loan debt, it feels more elusive than ever now as student debt payments resume. While some millennials were able to cross the finish line to homeownership when mortgage rates were at record lows during the pandemic. First-time
Former President Donald Trump, right, sits in the courtroom at New York Supreme Court, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, in New York. Seth Wenig | AP The $250 million civil fraud trial that could see former President Donald Trump permanently banned from doing business in New York began Monday. The trial comes a year after New
A Bitcoin proponent’s recent attempt to crypto trade his way from New York to Alaska has come to a sudden and bitter end — some 900 miles from his final destination. Thomas Kralow, a crypto trader and educator recently set himself the daring task of traveling from one side of the United States to the
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has requested comment on draft amendments to Rule G-12 on uniform practice, in efforts to codify, retire and reorganize 40 pieces of interpretive guidance related to interdealer confirmations. The move will aid the MSRB in its goal of retiring approximately 20% of its body of interpretive guidance, much of which
Receive free Asia-Pacific economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Asia-Pacific economy news every morning. The World Bank has cut its forecast for China’s growth next year and warned that east Asia’s developing economies are set to expand at one of the lowest rates in five decades, as