Municipals were little changed Friday as U.S. Treasuries pared back losses to end the day mixed after the morning shock of the hotter-than-expected jobs report sent them selling off. Equities ended mixed. The three-year muni-UST ratio Wednesday was at 62%, the five-year at 69%, the 10-year at 74% and the 30-year at 97%, according to
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EU member states have agreed to implement a $60 ceiling on global purchases of Russian oil after Poland dropped its objections to the long-debated deal aimed at denting the Kremlin’s fossil-fuel revenues. Warsaw had delayed agreement on the cap after demanding a lower ceiling to further erode Moscow’s income. Its backing means the bloc will
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The downfall of FTX and a number of other centralized finance platforms in 2022 reinforces the narrative that most of the crypto ecosystem will eventually collapse due to its centralization, with the exception of Bitcoin (BTC) — at least according to Jeff Booth, a Bitcoin proponent and the author of The Price of Tomorrow. Booth believes centralized crypto
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The Florida Treasury will divest up to $2 billion of assets that are currently under management by BlackRock because of its stance on environmental, social and governance issues, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said Thursday. The state Treasury will have Florida’s custody bank freeze about $1.43 billion worth of long-term securities and remove BlackRock
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City Developments Ltd. (CDL)—controlled by billionaire Kwek Leng Beng—has deferred plans to list its commercial properties in the U.K. on the Singapore Exchange amid heightened market volatility and macroeconomic headwinds. The company aimed to raise about 500 million pounds ($607 million) from the maiden share sale of a portfolio of U.K. commercial properties—including an office
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On Nov. 30, 2022, the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) discussed FTX’s collapse at the New York Times’ Dealbook Summit with Andrew Ross Sorkin in his first live-appearance interview since the crypto exchange’s downfall. SBF told the Dealbook Summit host that he was “deeply sorry about what happened” and further stressed that he “didn’t
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Puerto Rico government agencies and authorities completed their approval of extending LUMA Energy’s operation of the island’s electrical transmission and distribution system Wednesday. LUMA took over the system in June 2021 based on a short-term supplementary agreement that was supposed to be replaced by a 15-year Operating and Maintenance agreement on Thursday. However, that agreement
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