The city of Fishers, Indiana, is planning a $170 million lease rental revenue bond sale to finance construction of an arena for a minor league hockey team, a move that sparked a downgrade to the city. The Fishers Town Hall Building Corp. is on the calendar this week to price $160 million of tax-exempt Series
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US president Joe Biden landed in Israel on Wednesday amid a storm of recriminations over an explosion at a hospital in Gaza that, according to Palestinian officials, killed hundreds of people and inflamed tensions in
Bitcoin (BTC) is destined to hit $128,000 or more by the end of 2025, multiple analytics models suggest. Uploading his latest BTC price estimates to X (formerly Twitter) on Oct. 17, popular trader and analyst CryptoCon deduced a two-year target of around $130,000. Multiple BTC price forecasts converge on $130,000 in 2025 Bitcoin market participants
Stablecoin TrueUSD (TUSD) announced a potential leak of certain Know Your Customer (KYC) and transaction history data as one of TrueCoin’s third-party vendors got compromised. TrueCoin was the operator of the TUSD stablecoin till July 13, 2023. On Oct. 16, a third-party vendor’s security team informed TrueCoin of “an anomalous account change within [TrueCoin’s] organization
Amid a busy new-issue day, munis could not help but follow a U.S. Treasury selloff that was led by stronger economic data, reaffirming that rates will remain higher for longer. Equities were down late in the session. “The ‘higher for longer’ interest rate narrative continues to have a significant impact on all fixed income markets,”
North Carolina is home to a couple of the fastest growing cities in the United States, including, most notably, the cities of Cary and Concord. North Carolina’s largest city, Charlotte, witnessed its population grow by 126.7%, from 395,934 in 1990 to 897,720 in 2022. In recent studies, we analyzed and identified the richest cities in
In this article NWSA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Activist investment firm Starboard Value is pushing for change at News Corp. – in particular to see its real estate business separated from the rest of the company. Starboard CEO Jeffrey Smith told CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday that the firm is building a position
Wisconsin ended fiscal 2023 on June 30 with record-high balances of $7.07 billion for its budget and $1.8 billion in its rainy day fund, the state announced Monday. General purpose revenue tax collections totaled almost $21 billion, up 2.1% from fiscal 2022, which ended with a nearly $4.3 billion budget balance, according to a 2023
A former Hamas leader said the group was holding 200 to 250 people captive, but was focused on securing the release of thousands of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons. Khaled Meshaal, who now heads Hamas’s diaspora office and still holds an important position in its leadership, said during an interview with Qatar-based Al Araby
On Oct. 11, Caroline Ellison, the former head of the now-defunct Alameda Research, informed a U.S. court that she received instructions from FTX’s co-founder and CEO, Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, to sell Bitcoin (BTC) if its price remained above $20,000. This admission came as a shock to the entire crypto industry, but the two conspiring to
After two successive weeks of gains, the S&P 500 Index (SPX) started the week on a positive note. This suggests a risk-on sentiment which is a bullish sign. The volatility is likely to pick up as 11% of the S&P 500 companies are expected to report results this week. The risk-on sentiment could boost buying
Municipals were weaker Monday, rising in sympathy with U.S. Treasuries. Equities rallied. Triple-A benchmarks were cut up three to eight basis points, depending on the scale, while UST yields were up four to nine near the close. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Monday was at 70%, the three-year was at 70%, the five-year at 71%, the
Over the past several years, as the fortunes of other Chicago neighborhoods waxed and waned with economic cycles and a planet-wide health crisis, Fulton Market has remained the steadiest of all Windy City nooks. Situated immediately west of the Loop central business district, the enclave’s popularity with developers, restaurateurs, office and retail tenants, home buyers
New York state tax collections from mobile sports betting totaled $727.4 million in fiscal 2022-2023, according to a report from the state comptroller’s office. “Gaming has significantly expanded in the state in the last several years,” Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Wednesday. “With the ease and 24/7 availability of mobile betting apps, problem gambling and addiction
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hospitals in Gaza are likely to run out of fuel within 24 hours, putting the lives of thousands of patients at “immediate risk”, the UN warned as Israel lays siege to the enclave in response
Bitcoin (BTC) cruised into a new weekly close on Oct. 15 as “ultra boring” trading conditions still offered hope of a $27,000 breakthrough. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView “Ultra boring” BTC price may yet surprise at weekly close Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked a typically sideways weekend, with BTC price volatility absent
Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. SBF’s Chinese bribe scandal worsens According to October 11 testimony from Caroline Ellison, co-founder of FTX-linked hedge fund Alameda Research, her colleague — disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried — allegedly paid $150 million in bribes to Chinese government officials in 2021, higher
In this article COST MU INTC META AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Amazon delivery truck at the Amazon facility in Poway, California, Nov. 16, 2022. Sandy Huffaker | Reuters Investors are confronting several headwinds, including macro uncertainty, a spike in energy prices and the unanticipated crisis in the Middle East. Investors seeking
The S&P 500 Index nudged higher by 0.45% to record its second positive week. While the United States equities markets were a slow mover, gold witnessed a massive run-up of more than 5% this week. Its rally of 3.11% on Oct. 13 was its best one-day performance since Dec. 1 of last year. However, the
Cities and states should “keep calm and issue bonds” despite sticker shock from rising interest rates and a volatile municipal bond market. That was the message from panelists speaking Thursday at the Government Finance Officers Association’s annual MiniMuni event, a three-day online event for issuers. The rise in rates “makes our jobs as debt managers