Chicago Public Schools laid out a proposed $9.3 billion fiscal 2022 budget that directs $707 million towards capital and spends down about $1 billion of the district’s $2.6 billion of federal relief to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed budget for the fiscal year that began July 1 raises spending by about $900 million
Publicly traded North American Bitcoin mining company, Bitfarms, has doubled its productivity this year amid the Chinese crackdown and resultant miner migration. The Canadian hydroelectricity mining outfit claims to be currently powering an estimated 1.5% of the entire Bitcoin network with more than 99% renewable green energy. In a July 14 production update, the firm
The chairman and CEO of the world’s largest asset manager told CNBC on Wednesday that he worries about a “silent crisis of retirement,” citing global monetary policies that create disincentives for savers. “Unquestionably, as central banks keep rates low, or negative in Europe, the savers are getting slammed,” BlackRock co-founder Larry Fink said on “Squawk
A pint of Oatly brand ice cream is arranged for a photograph in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Bank of America — Shares of the banking giant fell 3.7% after reporting quarterly
Steeped in history and surrounded by 57 acres of woodlands lies a magnificent estate in New York known as Laurel Hill, one of Long Island’s rarest remaining Gold Coast estates. On the market for $18.5 million, the grand estate celebrating Tudor architecture is in the prestigious North Shore enclave of Mill Neck, New York. It’s
This story is part of CNBC Make It’s One-Minute Money Hacks series, which provides easy, straightforward tips and tricks to help you understand your finances and take control of your money. There’s been a lot of discussion about affordable housing recently, especially as home prices and rents hit record levels. Is your current home affordable?
Lagging attendance at the home of the King of Rock and Roll continues to batter the tourist-tax municipal bonds that were issued to gussy it up. The bonds were sold in 2017 for a development project at Graceland, the former residence and now resting place of Elvis Presley, which has become a worldwide tourist attraction
Jay Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, said the US central bank was ready to intervene if inflation spiralled out of control, but stressed that he expected price increases to ease later in the year. “Inflation has increased notably and will likely remain elevated in coming months before moderating,” Powell said in prepared remarks
Municipals were little changed Tuesday, ignoring another rise in U.S. Treasuries and a weaker stock market, with the focus on the primary which saw deals bumped in repricings. Another day of UST weakness after less-than-stellar auctions and municipals stayed in their own lane. Some participants said without the UST rise in yields, municipal benchmarks likely
Data shows a number of groups from major universities are participating in decentralized finance (defi) governance. For instance, out of 15 of the largest voters in Uniswap’s last governance proposal, six of the major voters were tied to universities like Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Penn, Michigan, MIT, and Columbia University. Blockchain University Groups Identified as Major
In this video, I want to share with you exactly behind What the Butterfly is when it comes to Trading Options and why you may want to trade the Butterfly. The Butterfly’s just a fancy name for a type of spread because it looks like a butterfly. You can trade a butterfly to the upside
David Solomon, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs & Co., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that China’s recent moves boosting oversight of its technology
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE Earnings season begins with two major tailwinds: sky high prices and sky-high expectations. On paper, second quarter earnings looks like the mother of all earnings reports, with estimates having risen steadily for the past six months, from expected 45% growth in January to
In this article EA JPM GS CAG PEP BA Boeing employees walk by a new Boeing 737-900 at Boeing Field in Seattle Thursday, July 15, 2004. Barry Sweet | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Boeing — Shares of Boeing fell more than 3%. The plane maker cut production
Carlos Santana may live in Las Vegas most of the year, but he loves spending time in Hawaii. The Grammy awarded artist bought a four-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot vacation property on Hawaii’s Kauai Island for $8 million in 2020 and doubled down by buying another holiday home in Princeville for $20.5 million on July 1, according to
In this article RGP-GB Stephen M. Ross attends The Wall Street Journal’s Future Of Everything Festival at Spring Studios on May 20, 2019 in New York City. Nicholas Hunt | Getty Images A super PAC funded largely by billionaire Stephen Ross racked up a winning record in New York’s city council primaries, a sharp reminder
Ether (ETH) perhaps had the most bullish outlook entering the July session, with a key technical update dubbed EIP-1559, promising to make its native token ETH scarcer through the network’s first-ever burning mechanism. But so far into the month, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap has vastly tailed its top rival Bitcoin. The positive correlation
Puerto Rico’s financial oversight board struck a bankruptcy deal with the main group of the island’s unsecured creditors, a breakthrough that promises to make it easier to win final court approval of its plan for cutting $35 billion of the government’s debt. The board and the unsecured creditors reached the understanding on Monday, Brian Rosen,
The breakneck pace of US consumer price increases seen since the start of the year accelerated in June, challenging the Federal Reserve’s case that the burst of inflationary pressures accompanying the economic reopening will prove temporary. The consumer price index rose 5.4 per cent in June from a year ago — above the nearly 13-year
Municipals were little changed with a slightly weaker tone outside of 10 years Monday ahead of a larger and diverse primary as the second week of July reinvestment kicks into gear. U.S. Treasuries fluctuated but held mostly steady after midday auctions. The 30-year UST sat just at 2% near the close while triple-A municipal benchmark