Municipals were softer with small cuts to benchmarks on Tuesday as the focus was mostly on the sizable new-issue calendar and deals were repriced to lower yields. Spreads have been widening, but secondary trading was on the light side and triple-A benchmarks were cut by only a basis point in spots even as U.S. Treasury
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Jens Weidmann has decided to step down after a decade as head of Germany’s central bank in a move that comes weeks after the country’s general election and shortly before a crucial decision on the future of eurozone monetary policy. Since he joined the Bundesbank, Weidmann has been one of the most vocal critics of
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Passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill by month end without also reaching a deal on a reconciliation measure may endanger key municipal market priorities. “Now absolutely is the time,” said Emily Brock, director of the GFOA’s Federal Liaison Center. If lawmakers do not meet the Halloween deadline to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure framework, or BIF,
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Starship prototype 20 is stacked on top of Super Heavy Booster 4 on August 6, 2021. SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX has become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, and Morgan Stanley believes the Starship rockets the venture is developing will have wide-reaching implications. Starship is the massive, next-generation rocket SpaceX is developing to be
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Investment Specialist, Team Denver Homes - RE/MAX Professionals. If you’ve ever binged a real estate reality TV series, you know how satisfying a before-and-after home reveal can be. With big teams and big budgets, these shows renovate, reconstruct and redesign houses to boost their resale value. It’s entertaining TV, but if you’re an average homeowner, it’s probably
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Several Midwest-based healthcare borrowers are teeing up a range of taxable, green and acquisition financing deals as reports highlight the COVID-19 pandemic’s lingering effects, creating new obstacles to margin recovery. This week, OhioHealth Corp. will price $600 million of taxable bonds with a corporate CUSIP and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics will sell
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Technology is still the best performing sector this year despite trade tensions and global growth concerns. Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/XLK/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Vanguard Information Technology ETF: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/VGT/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID IShares U.S. Technology ETF: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/IYW/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Microsoft: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/MSFT?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Apple: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/AAPL?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Google: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/GOOGL?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Facebook: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/FB?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Follow us on StockTwits: http://stocktwits.com/ZacksResearch Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZacksResearch Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZacksInvestmentResearch
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has ordered two cryptocurrency lending platforms to shut down and requested three other platforms to answer questions regarding their activities immediately. The letters to the companies published on the attorney general’s website indicate that the two platforms are Nexo and Celsius Network. New York Cracks Down on Unregistered Crypto
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Municipals were a touch weaker 10 years and in on thin trading while U.S. Treasuries pared back earlier losses the curve flattening continued. Triple-A benchmarks saw one basis point cuts in spots inside 10-years while the five-year U.S. Treasury hit a high of 1.154% and the 30-year pared back earlier losses to land at 2.018%.
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An animated trajectory map shows the path of the Lucy mission, with the spacecraft (blue) launching from the Earth (green) out to the asteroids around Jupiter (orange). NASA NASA’s latest exploration spacecraft launched over the weekend, beginning a 12-year journey to visit Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. A tool familiar to Wall Street was used to craft
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In 1909 the Lazarus Department Store opened in the center of Columbus, a city-block-sized temple to commerce. By the time it closed in 2003, traffic had dwindled as an American institution, the downtown department store, was supplanted by mushrooming malls. In 1989, huge crowds flocked to the opening of Columbus City Center, a concrete, 1,250,000 sq ft, three-level
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