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Pension funding-related threats to Chicago and Illinois’ fiscal health are on the rise, reports published this week warn. Chicago and Illinois — longtime examples of outliers nationally on the size of their unfunded liabilities and funded ratios — have made progress, with Chicago now making payments more closely aligned with an actuarial calculation and both
Municipals are steady to slightly firmer in spots Tuesday as the primary market took the focus with gilt-edged Georgia selling its large general obligation offering in the competitive market to strong demand. U.S. Treasuries were weaker and equities rallied. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Tuesday was at 61%, the three-year at 63%, the five-year at 64%,
Russia dropped charges against participants in the Wagner paramilitary force’s armed insurrection and said the group had agreed to hand over its weaponry. The announcements on Tuesday came in the wake of the deal between the Kremlin and Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and appeared to mark progress towards resolving the stand-off. The FSB, Russia’s main
Origin, a financial wellness startup, announced its acquisition of Finny, leaving the financial terms of the deal undisclosed. Briefly:Origin will integrate Finnys education, content, curriculum, and debt management tools, further bolstering its platform which simplifies finances for individuals by making it easy to track spending, get advice, as well as manage investments. Impact: "I'm thrilled
Visa Inc. V is reportedly getting close to making a deal to acquire a Brazilian cloud-based platform provider for banking services and payments, Pismo. The company, which is in advanced discussions, can announce the deal this month, per Bloomberg. A final agreement has not been reached yet, and discussions can collapse. In late March, Valor
Starship V0.2? — SpaceX making more than 1,000 changes to next Starship rocket “Hot staging” and engine upgrade to debut on SpaceX’s next Starship test flight. Stephen Clark – Jun 26, 2023 10:27 pm UTC Enlarge / The upper stage for SpaceX’s next Starship test fight, named Ship 25, undergoes testing earlier this month in
Rising global temperatures are a danger to economic growth, as well as social and political stability. United Nations member states aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and reduce them to zero by 2050. As a result, the market for carbon credits is expected to grow to $10 trillion, according to DevvStream
Sorry — RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen. Ron Amadeo – Jun 26, 2023 5:00 pm UTC Enlarge / My dead Pixel Fold display. That huge white gradient should not be there. Ron Amadeo reader comments 249 with
New York-based digital assets platformBakkt has decided to removethree major cryptocurrenciesSolana SOL/USD , Polygon MATIC/USD , and Cardano ADA/USD from its listings. This move comes not long after Bakkt acquired Apex Crypto, a trading infrastructure provider, for $155 million. Bakkt's General Counsel and Secretary, Marc DAnnunzio, told Fortune that the company has opted for a
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Vikram Rai, head of Citi’s municipal strategy group, has left the firm, he announced on Monday, after his position was eliminated. “Today was my last day at Citi,” he said in an email to clients. “I got cut,” he told The Bond Buyer. “I’m looking for a new job now.” Rai is an outspoken and
The S&P 500 Index (SPX) snapped a five-week winning streak last week but it is still on track to close the first half of the year with stellar gains of nearly 13%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has done much better as it is up about 29%. Both these indices have been overtaken by Bitcoin (BTC)
Richard Ravitch, one of the financial saviors of New York City’ during the near bankruptcy of the city in the 1970s, died Sunday. He was 89, just over a week shy of his 90th birthday. Ravitch, a former Lt. Governor of New York State and chair of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was an
Transactions on the Optimism network surged 67% following its June 7 “Bedrock” upgrade, according to a June 26 Twitter thread from blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The network had been seeing less than 300,000 transactions per day before the upgrade, but this figure increased to over 550,000 by the middle of June. Since Optimism’s Bedrock upgrade
The head of the Wagner private military group has denied trying to overthrow the Russian government but redoubled his criticism of the country’s defence establishment in his first public comments since Saturday’s abortive march on Moscow. In an 11-minute voice recording posted on Telegram on Monday, Yevgeny Prigozhin said his goal had been to protest
Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Lucid Group — Lucid shares jumped 9% after the electric vehicle maker said it will provide powertrain and battery systems to British luxury automaker Aston Martin. WSFS Financial — The regional bank added 4.4% after D.A. Davidson upgraded the
A recent surge in activity surrounding exchange-traded funds has led to the largest weekly inflow for digital asset investment products since July 2022, according to a June 26 report via CoinShares. Totalling $199 million, inflows for the week of 19–23 June turned around a nine-week string of consecutive outflows, with Bitcoin (BTC) representing the lion’s