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  • Texas Capital beefs up public finance team with five hires

    Texas Capital is expanding its public finance team with the addition of five industry professionals, the Dallas-based financial services firm announced Friday. The public finance business was launched in May with the hiring of Steve Genyk, a former public finance head at UBS, as a managing director. The move came as the ranks of underwriters…

  • How Jane Street rode the ETF wave to ‘obscene’ riches

    ​​When Wall Street scrambled to launch bitcoin funds earlier this year, there was just one trading company named in regulatory filings as an anchor market-maker for every single one: Jane Street.  The move underscored how a quirky and opaque New York firm has used its dominance in exchange traded funds and embrace of more finicky…

  • Here are the pros and cons of renting versus owning a home in those retirement years

    South_agency | E+ | Getty Images Older Americans make up the largest share of homeowners in the U.S. compared to other generations. However, many are renting in their retirement years.  Most older adults, those at least 65 years old, own their homes, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. Yet, more than…

  • New York City brings third social GO deal for affordable housing

    Investors will have a chance to buy New York City’s third-ever social-labeled general obligation bonds this week. Comptroller Brad Lander said he has high hopes for the taxable $1.5 billion deal despite the awkwardness of Mayor Eric Adams’ recent federal criminal indictment on bribery charges.  “[The credit rating agencies] have reported they believe the city’s…

  • Analysts: ports can handle pay raises

    The end of a brief strike by longshoremen at East and Gulf Coast ports eases immediate credit concerns for the ports, although the lynchpin of the agreement, a 62% salary increase, may nibble away at the bottom lines for some ports over the long term. The strike between the International Longshoremen’s Association representing 45,000 workers…

  • Top Wall Street analysts favor these stocks for attractive long-term potential

    In this article META UBER CYB-FF Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A smartphone displaying Facebook with the Meta icon visible in the background. Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.S. stock market witnessed a solid September, thanks to the Federal Reserve’s much-awaited interest rate cut. However, escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle…

  • Ryan Serhant: AI will make real estate agents more personable in home buying and selling

    Real estate agent and reality television star Ryan Serhant. Newspix Real estate has been historically slow to modernize, but AI is changing that. The integration of artificial intelligence is transforming how buyers and sellers interact with agents, fundamentally altering competitive dynamics in the industry.  With AI reshaping daily operations of a real estate agent’s business…

  • California revolving loan helps Santa Cruz improve sewers

    The California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank board of directors approved $26 million in loan financing for the city of Santa Cruz for two wastewater improvement system projects, IBank officials said Thursday. The funding will help the city replace and upgrade decades-old equipment with the aim of preventing costly repairs, protecting pipelines from corrosion, improving…

  • Stadium costs mount for state and local governments

    Taxpayers shoulder a heavy burden for sports stadium subsidies, the Tax Foundation said this week. Reams of research shows that using bonds to finance sports stadiums and arenas do not generate enough revenue to justify the costs, the foundation said in a blog post Thursday. “According to the academic research, the tangible economic benefits job…

  • How activist Irenic can amicably build shareholder value at Reservoir Media

    In this article RSVR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Golnar Khosrowshahi, Founder and CEO of Reservoir Media Management, Inc. attends Variety, The New York Party, at Loosie’s Nightclub on October 05, 2023 in New York City. Jamie McCarthy | Variety | Getty Images Company: Reservoir Media (RSVR) Business: Reservoir Media operates a music publishing business,…

  • Zillow adds climate risk data to home listings as threats rise

    In this article ZG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Insured losses for Hurricane Helene are now estimated at over $6 billion, but the uninsured losses are far higher. That’s because the vast majority of homes impacted by the storm, especially in hard-hit North Carolina, did not have flood insurance. New risk-assessment technology is designed…

  • Dennis Enright, founding principal at NW Financial, dies

    Dennis J. Enright, founding principal of NW Financial Group and NW Capital Markets, has died, the New Jersey-based firm announced Thursday. He was 76. Enright’s career spanned a half-century, and he was a pioneer in many now-common financing strategies.  “He was a premier banker, always innovating and searching for client solutions that would save money,”…

  • Jobs data sparks UST selloff that munis can’t ignore

    U.S. Treasuries sold off Friday after payrolls came in much hotter than expected, leading economists and traders to pare back rate cut expectations. The municipal market could not ignore the moves and triple-A yields rose, but outperformed taxables to a large extent, pushing ratios lower. Equities rallied on the news, pushing the Dow to close…

  • How Netanyahu is ‘running rings’ around Biden

    After Bill Clinton’s first official meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, he turned to an aide and said: “Who is the fucking superpower here?” Four US presidents later, nobody would think of posing that question about Israel’s pugilistic prime minister. Netanyahu long ago established what military analysts call “escalation dominance” over whoever sits in the…

  • Mortgage rates spike after stronger-than-expected jobs report

    The average rate on the 30-year-fixed mortgage jumped 27 basis points Friday morning following the release of the government’s monthly employment report. The rate is now 6.53%, according to Mortgage News Daily. That is 42 basis points higher than Sept. 17, the day before the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark rate by half a percentage…

  • Public finance pros to meet next generation at Harris School event

    The next generation of public policymakers and public finance practitioners will mingle with current municipal finance pros at a career forum hosted by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy’s Center for Municipal Finance. During the week of Oct. 14, the CMF will hold lunchtime seminars designed to help interested students get the…

  • Israeli air strikes shake Beirut in expanding campaign against Hizbollah

    Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s military conducted multiple heavy air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight, in one of the most violent air raids on the Lebanese capital in Israel’s intensifying campaign against armed group Hizbollah. Residents across Beirut…

  • As reinvestment dollars flow, mutual funds see inflows of $1.9B

    Municipals faced some pressure Thursday as U.S. Treasuries saw losses amid geopolitical uncertainty and mixed macroeconomic data ahead of Friday’s payrolls figure while equities were off near the close. The last large new-issues priced in the primary and secondary trading pointed to some weakness, leading to small cuts to triple-A yield curves.  Municipal bond mutual…

  • Oil surges after Biden comments on Israeli retaliation

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  • UK house sales rise since the Covid-19 boom as lower mortgage rates spur activity

    A pedestrians looks at residential properties displayed for sale in the window of an estate agents’ in Windsor, west of London. Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images LONDON — Lower mortgage rates are sparking an uptick in the U.K. housing market, following a surge in the pace of home sales last month, data showed.…