Recent signs of cooling inflation are paving the way for the Federal Reserve to cut rates when it meets next week, which is welcome news for Americans struggling to keep up with the elevated cost of living and sky-high interest charges. “Consumers should feel good about [an interest rate reduction] but it’s not going to
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People walk along London Bridge past the City of London skyline. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. is leading a recovery in Europe’s long subdued office real estate market, with overall investment in the sector expected to pick up further in the second half of the year. Britain recorded 4.1
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Investors are snapping up shares in US consumer staples stocks such as Coca-Cola and Colgate-Palmolive as they hunt for more defensive areas of the market amid concerns over a potential slowdown in the US economy.
Over two decades ago, the investment bank where I worked introduced a new rule: pitch books couldn’t exceed 20 pages. Dubbed “Thin to Win,” the goal was to lighten the load for junior bankers and sharpen our client presentations. Our COO explained that studies showed audiences tuned out after 10 pages, remembering only three main
External view of the stand where Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Director, Photoshop & Lightroom Julieanne Kost conduct a Lightroom workshop at Xposure on February 29, 2024, in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Horacio Villalobos | Corbis News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading: Adobe — Shares plunged more than 10%
Municipals were little changed outside of cuts on the one-year Thursday while inflows into municipal bond mutual funds topped $1 billion, clocking in at the second highest total this year. U.S. Treasuries were slightly weaker and equities ended up. Investors added $1.258 billion to funds — the second-largest inflow figure year-to-date after $1.413 billion for
We started buying Home Depot shares last week as a play on housing and interest rates. Our initial 50-share buy was around $362. We bought 50 more shares Wednesday a few dollars higher. The Dow stock is having a mixed year — up about 7% compared to the S & P 500 ‘s more than
The American Bankers Association is pushing back hard against proposed rule for the controversial Financial Data Transparency Act, accusing the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal agencies of overstepping their authority in seeking to replace the current identifier system for financial securities, including municipal bonds. The proposed FDTA rule, unveiled Aug. 1, would replace
In this article BRK.A Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ajit Jain at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Los Angeles, California. May 1, 2021. Gerard Miller | CNBC Ajit Jain, Warren’s Buffett’s insurance chief and top executive, sold more than half of his stake in Berkshire Hathaway, a new regulatory filing showed. The 73-year-old vice
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been coping with a capital fiscal cliff since June, when Gov. Kathy Hochul canned congestion pricing, and the toll revenue that was supposed to fund $15 billion of projects. But that’s just the beginning of the authority’s capital shortfalls, according to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. A
The Nasdaq Composite notched its best one-day rise in a month after heavyweight tech stocks climbed, recovering from a morning sell-off. The tech-heavy index rose 2.2 per cent on Wednesday, with gains accelerating in the late afternoon. Nvidia jumped 8 per cent, leading an advance for the rest of its Magnificent Seven peers. The Nasdaq
Raphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.Bloomberg News Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic violated the central bank’s trading rules and policies in 2022, according to a government watchdog report. The Federal Reserve’s Office of the Inspector General, or OIG, released the findings from its review
In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Despite the increasingly partisan sentiment in the cryptocurrency industry, bitcoin will thrive over the long term regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential election in November. That’s a view many crypto investors are coming to accept, as the
Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House US secretary of state Antony Blinken and UK foreign secretary David Lammy held talks in Kyiv with Ukrainian officials on Wednesday about possibly lifting restrictions on Ukraine using western-made weapons to conduct
Thanks to the run up in housing prices, homeowners now have more than $32 trillion in home equity as of the first quarter of 2024, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve — an all-time high. “It’s one of the very few things we can say about today’s housing market that is, more or less, positive,” said
In this article BAC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway offloaded another chunk of Bank of America shares, bringing its total sales to more than $7 billion since mid-July and reducing its stake
José Luis Gutiérrez | iStock Photo Why are September and October historically weak for stocks? For answers, I turned to Mark Higgins, senior vice president at Index Fund Advisors and author of the book, Investing in U.S. Financial History: Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future. The answers have been edited for clarity. What is it
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai’s property scene is showing no sign of cooling off, as 2024 is on track to be another record year in terms of sales figures and property values, according to local real estate firms. Increasing demand for property, especially in the luxury space, is boosting prices not just of homes,
In this article ORCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A view of Oracle’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, on Sept. 11, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Oracle chairman and co-founder Larry Ellison had a “bizarre” announcement to make this week. The electricity demand from artificial intelligence is becoming so “crazy” that Oracle is
Municipals were steady to slightly firmer in spots while the primary market took focus with at least 17 deals over the $100 million market hitting the screens led by billion-dollar-plus pricings from Washington, D.C., and Illinois. The New York City TFA priced $1.5 billion for retail investors and Chicago accelerated a pricing of water revenue
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