US defence secretary Lloyd Austin accused China of stepping up coercive behaviour towards Taiwan as he stressed that Washington would maintain its military capacity to resist any force that threatened the country. Speaking at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue defence forum in Singapore, Austin said China was engaging in provocative behaviour across the Indo-Pacific region that
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Municipals saw yields rise across the curve, with the largest losses out long to end the week, while a higher-than-expected inflation report led to a massive U.S. Treasury selloff on the front of the curve and sent equities tumbling. With Friday’s Consumer Price Index report, the “prospects for a quick slowdown in the rate of
In this article BCSF (Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Bain Capital, with $160 billion in assets, is one of the largest private, private equity firms. Despite many of its peers going public, like TPG earlier this year, Bain has no immediate plans to join them. John Connaughton is Bain Capital’s global head of
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on May 04, 2022 in Washington, DC. Powell announced the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates by a half-percentage point to combat record high inflation. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images The week ahead may all come down to
Sales of luxury homes tumbled 17.8% year over year during the three months ending April 30, the largest drop since the onset of the pandemic sent shockwaves through the housing market. By comparison, sales of non-luxury homes fell 5.4%. That’s according to an analysis of luxury real estate trends from Redfin, a technology-powered real estate
Jake and Stephanie Murphy are moving into a new single-family rental home built by American Homes 4 Rent. Diana Olick | CNBC Real Estate Correspondent As demand for single-family rental homes surges, big landlords are jumping into the homebuilding business to shore up falling supplies. The push comes as more Americans have the flexibility to
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New York City has an early budget for the new fiscal year, one that totals a record high $101 billion for fiscal 2023 and includes a record level of $8.3 billion in reserves. At a City Hall press conference Friday afternoon, Mayor Eric Adams, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Council Finance Chair Justin Brannan announced
Octopus Energy has made a last-minute entry in a three-way race to buy collapsed electricity and gas supplier Bulb, according to two people close to the deal. Centrica, the owner of British Gas, and Masdar, an Abu Dhabi-based energy company, are also in talks with the UK government as it tries to secure bids ahead
With Indiana revenue collections running $1 billion over estimates with just one month left in the fiscal year, Gov. Eric Holcomb proposed returning that amount from reserves to taxpayers through an automatic tax refund. Holcomb, a Republican, called for a special session to approve the proposal. “Hoosiers have real needs right now during this period
Financial and technical information platform Bloomberg has vastly expanded its coverage of crypto markets after a decision to include data on the top 50 crypto assets to the Bloomberg Terminal. Product manager for cryptocurrencies at Bloomberg Alex Wenham suggested that as “the global institutional investor” community’s interest in digital assets continues to grow, they will
In this article FOUN Traders on the floor of the NYSE, June 8, 2022. Source: NYSE SPACs are known to be a roundabout investment vehicle to take private companies public. Not this one. Bull Horn Holdings is merging with biotech Coeptis Therapeutics, a public company traded over the counter. The SPAC sponsors told CNBC they went for
In this article ILMN MTN SFIX DOCU The Docusign Inc. website on a laptop computer arranged in Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Here are the stocks making notable moves after the bell on Thursday, June 9. DocuSign — Shares of the software company
Ether (ETH) is down 25% in just a month and even the recent upgrade to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus on the Ropsten testnet failed to move the altcoin’s price. The merge is meant to address energy-use issues and open a path for higher transaction output, but the actual full transition for the Ethereum network is
It’s a true trompe l’oeil. This French chateau gives every impression of being set in Provence, a region of southeastern France known for ancient hilltop villages, lavender fields and rolling vineyards. And while the estate accurately reflects that heritage, it’s actually located across an ocean and some 5,800 miles away in the Arcadia neighborhood of
Momo Productions | Digitalvision | Getty Images If the value of your home ballooned during the pandemic, you may receive an inflated property tax assessment in the mail. There are ways, however, to combat a higher bill, experts say. Despite double-digit growth in single-family home prices, property taxes only increased by 1.8% in 2021, with
Two Bitcoin miners have told Cointelegraph that if the bill banning Proof-of-Work mining for two years in New York becomes law, it would end up triggering an exodus of mining companies from the state and do little to address the intended goals of the moratorium. GEM Mining CEO John Warren told Cointelegraph on June 8
Tipping the odds in your favour is part of the arsenal of any successful trader whether they chose to have positions in gold, oil, forex or indexes. Following the trend is one of the most popular strategies that help with this but many find it difficult to stay the course and they go for larger
The Puerto Rico Oversight Board is arguing that the U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico does not have subject matter jurisdiction over a recent conflict-of-interest complaint filed against a law firm representing it. The board said the Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over a dispute between two “non-Title III debtor third parties that does not
The European Central Bank has paved the way for a series of rate rises, starting with a quarter-percentage point move in July and raising the prospect of a bigger half-point shift in September. The ECB said in a statement on Thursday that its governing council “intends to raise the key ECB interest rates by 25 basis