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Mortgage demand stalls as financial markets digest Trump presidency
Residential homes in Discovery Bay, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. Mortgage rates in the US increased to the highest level since July. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage rates continued to climb last week as investors considered the future of the economy under a Trump presidency. The mortgage market basically…
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Reeves to tell regulators to dial up risk in UK financial services
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will tell City of London regulators to dial up the risk in the UK financial services sector, claiming that rules drawn up after the 2008 financial crash have “gone too far”…
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Anatomy of a deal: Brightline’s Innovative Finance winner
Passengers board a Brightline passenger train in Miami. Opening the full Miami-to-Orlando route paved the way for Brightline to embark on a major restructuring of its full capital stack.Bloomberg News Most deals take some time to put together, but this year’s Brightline Florida passenger train financing has been in the works since the borrower first…
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Trump secures control of Congress as Republicans win House majority
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Republicans have won a majority in the House of Representatives, giving Donald Trump’s party full control of both chambers of the US Congress and wide latitude to push a radical agenda through the…
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Munis improve, USTs mixed while inflation data muddies market outlook
<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20281438/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipal market outperformance continued Wednesday as triple-A yield curves saw an improved bias while U.S. Treasuries were mixed after inflation data threw more uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s next moves. The October consumer price index came in as projected, but stickiness in inflation — especially with expectations that President-elect…
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BlackRock expands its tokenized money market fund to Polygon and other blockchains
In this article BTC.CM= BLK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The BlackRock logo is pictured outside the company’s headquarters in the Manhattan borough of New York City on May 25, 2021. Carlo Allegri | Reuters BlackRock has expanded its tokenized money market fund to include several more blockchains. The investment manager said Wednesday that…
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Homebuilder deal activity is surging, fueled by major Japanese buyers
Exceptionally strong housing demand in the U.S. has large homebuilders in the driver’s seat and smaller builders ripe for takeover. The buyers are both domestic and Japanese. M&A activity in the single-family homebuilder space is having a record year in terms of dollar volume, and close to a record in the number of deals, according…
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John Thune elected Senate majority leader in rebuke to Trump allies
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world South Dakota senator John Thune will be the next Republican leader in the Senate and the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill, after garnering the support of a majority of the party’s lawmakers…
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Palm Beach comptroller calls for dismissal of Israel bonds suit
Palm Beach County Comptroller Joseph Abruzzo said the doctrine of separation of powers bars the court from telling him how to invest the county’s money. Palm Beach County Clerk and Comptroller Joseph Abruzzo last week asked a Florida court to dismiss a lawsuit by pro-Palestinian county residents contesting his investment of county money in Israel…
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Trump chooses Musk and Ramaswamy to lead government efficiency effort
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has named Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a “department of government efficiency”, giving the two private-sector entrepreneurs charge of a promised effort to slash rules, bureaucracy and spending throughout…
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Muni returns in the black, outperforming USTs in November
&amp;lt;img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20266588/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /&amp;gt; Municipals were narrowly mixed Tuesday, ignoring larger U.S. Treasury market losses while stocks ended their breakneck pace of post-election gains to close the session down. Triple-A yield curves showed a mix of one to three basis point bumps and cuts, depending on the curve, while USTs saw losses of…
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Hedge funds performed better under Democratic presidents than Republican ones, history shows
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE There’s been a rush of enthusiasm on Wall Street regarding Donald Trump’s election win, but hedge funds actually generate more alpha when the White House is occupied by a Democrat president than a Republican one, according to HFR, collating data going back to…
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What’s behind Salesforce’s record highs — plus, a possible stock to buy after this week’s earnings
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. 1. The S & P 500 edged higher Monday, extending Friday’s postelection all-time highs. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was basically flat. Club chip names Advanced Micro Devices , Broadcom , and…
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Wall Street bankers on course for up to 35% bonus bump
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Investment Banking myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Wall Street bonuses are on course to rise by as much as 35 per cent this year, as bankers eye even greater potential payouts under a second Trump presidency. Activity levels for corporate deals, stock…
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Top bond counsel first 9 months 2024
Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. The top 10 bond counsels accounted for $171.71 billion in the first nine months of 2024. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe lead the pack, accounting for $42.15 billion in 277 issues for an 11.3% market share, followed by Kutak Rock with $22.6 billion…
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Trump expected to nominate China hawk Rubio for secretary of state
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump is closing in on top picks for his foreign policy team, planning to tap Florida congressman Mike Waltz as his national security adviser and to nominate Florida senator Marco Rubio to…
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Retirement centers resolve bond default
South Carolina-based assisted living developers CR Lakewood and CR Lakeside Place resolved a bond default. AdobeStock Owners of assisted and independent living retirement centers in South Carolina resolved a default on $24.5 million of bonds, according to a posting. Borrowers CR Lakewood, LLC, and CR Lakeside Place, LLC, failed to make principal payments due on…
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Trump is the most pro-stock market president in history, Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel says
The stock market could enjoy a bigger boost from President-elect Donald Trump than any previous administration thanks to his pro-business policies, according to Jeremy Siegel, finance professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. “President-elect Trump is the most pro-stock market president we have had in our history,” Siegel said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”…
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Megacap tech stocks make some room — here is where investors are branching out
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Market rotation: The Dow was the big winner Monday, tracking for its first close above 44,000. However, the pressure on the S & P 500 and…
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Tesla, bitcoin and dollar jump as investors pile into ‘Trump trades’
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Bitcoin hit a fresh record, the US dollar rose to a four-month high and Tesla shares jumped, as investors raised bets on the big winners from Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory. The…
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