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Munis extend selloff on front end, calendar rebounds to $6.2B
Municipals extended their selloff on the front of the curve Friday following U.S. Treasuries while equities sold off. Triple-A yields rose 11 to 15 basis points five years and in, depending on the scale, while UST saw smaller losses on the short end and improved slightly out long. Two- and three-year muni-UST ratios climbed to…
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Pound tumbles below $1.09 after UK’s £45bn tax cut package
Sterling tumbled against the dollar to below $1.09, hitting its lowest point since 1985, after UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday unveiled a £45bn debt-financed tax-cutting package that sparked a historic increase in borrowing costs. Kwarteng’s political and economic gamble includes the biggest set of tax cuts for 50 years, with the end of the…
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Lauren Taylor Wolfe says it’s just too risky for investors to ignore ESG amid recent pushback
(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) According to Deloitte, global ESG assets under professional management could be worth $80 trillion by 2024. But this growth in popularity combined with a global energy crisis has the sector facing increasing polarization. Critics worry that capital dedicated to ESG investments will further one value system at the…
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: FedEx, Boeing, Ally, Domino’s and more
In this article WFC ALLY AMD CAMP RTX LMT COST Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Visitors walk past a Boeing board during the Farnborough Airshow, in Farnborough, on July 18, 2022. Justin Tallis | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Boeing — The aerospace company was down…
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Five Things Every Biohacker’s Home Needs From Dave Asprey’s 2022 Biohacking Conference
While many people associate biohacking with taking vitamins or exercising, most biohackers will tell you it’s about embracing a wellness-focused lifestyle and making changes to optimize health. Much of this begins with making healthy changes at home. For example, opting for an organic mattress instead of a conventional one can reduce chemical exposure. Dave Asprey…
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Inside the $250 million penthouse on ‘Billionaires’ Row’
A penthouse atop the world’s tallest residential building − listed for $250 million − is marking the biggest test of the ultra-luxury real estate market at a time of falling sales and growing economic uncertainty. The three-story mega-home inside Central Park Tower, which spans more than 17,500 square feet, is the country’s most expensive listing.…
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Why is the crypto market down today?
Crypto prices keep falling, but why? This year’s market crash has turned most winning portfolios into net losers, and new investors are probably losing hope in Bitcoin (BTC). Investors know that cryptocurrencies exhibit higher than average volatility, but this year’s drawdown has been extreme. After hitting a stratospheric all-time high at $69,400, Bitcoin price crumbled…
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Ep 137: Investing Your First $1,000 Bucks
Watch Part 2 Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMJaiB3xOKc In this video, you will learn how to invest your first $1000 dollars. Providing you some advice on whether to invest it or start a business. Learning the step by step to get to your target by investing in yourself in different ways. Education should be the initial investment that…
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Kaufman Hall bulks up with acquisition of Claro Healthcare
Kaufman Hall & Associates LLC will acquire the consulting firm Claro Healthcare to scale up on the depth of its professional services for hospital and health systems that are navigating ongoing COVID-19 wounds made worse by a labor shortage and high expenses. Kaufman Hall, which specializes in the healthcare and higher education sectors, said Thursday…
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Munis walloped on front end, $2B more outflows
Municipals were hit hard on the front end of the curve but the damage was felt throughout as triple-A yields rose up to 15 basis points and mutual fund outflows topped $2 billion. U.S. Treasuries sold off and equities were mixed. Municipal yields rose up to 15 basis points on the one- and two-year with…
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Kwarteng to unveil his plan to kick-start UK economic growth
UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will on Friday attempt to deliver shock treatment to Britain’s stagnating economy, with a 30-point growth package to turn “the vicious cycle of stagnation into a virtuous cycle of growth”. Kwarteng’s mini-Budget will feature tax reforms to help struggling self-employed business owners, alongside scrapping a planned increase in corporation tax that…
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Novavax, Darden Restaurants, Eli Lilly and more
In this article FDS DRI KBH NVAX 9961-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Olive Garden restaurant in Times Square in New York. Richard Levine | Corbis | Getty Images Here are the stocks making headlines in midday trading Thursday. Novavax — Shares of the drug maker tumbled 13.9% after JPMorgan downgraded Novavax to…
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Total crypto market cap shows strength even after the Merge and Federal Reserve rate hike
Cryptocurrencies have been in a bear trend since mid-August after they failed to break above the $1.2 trillion market capitalization resistance. Even with the current bear trend and a brutal 25% correction, it has not been enough to break the three-month-long ascending trend. The crypto markets’ aggregate capitalization declined 7.2% to $920 billion in the…
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For Sale: A Beaux Arts Masterpiece Beautifully Preserved In St. Louis
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair…the song about the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri that celebrated the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase has kept it alive in our memories. Now the Nabisco Mansion, another piece of that history, is for sale. Though it is called the Nabisco Mansion,…
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Read the highlights of the new lawsuit against Donald Trump by New York Attorney General Letitia James
An aerial view of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home after Trump said that FBI agents raided it, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. August 15, 2022. Marco Bello | Reuters A bombshell lawsuit against former President Donald Trump filed Wednesday contains a head-spinning amount of detail about real estate, loans and other financial arrangements…
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Bank of Japan Intervenes in Foreign Exchange Markets After Yen Slips to 24-Year Low
While the greenback has been rising higher, the Japanese yen tapped a 24-year low and Japan decided to intervene in foreign exchange markets (forex) for the first time since 1998. Reports say the Bank of Japan conducted the first forex intervention in 24 years, after the Japanese central bank kept its benchmark bank rate suppressed…
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Is Adobe (ADBE) A ‘Buy’ Heading into Q3 Earnings Announcement?
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Fed rate hike pushes 2-year UST above 4%; munis slow to respond
Municipals were mixed after the Federal Open Market Committee implemented a third straight 75 basis point rate hike as it continues to combat inflation, pushing the two-year U.S. Treasury above 4% while the 10-, 20- and 30-year made gains. Equities ended in the red. The FOMC raised the fed funds rate target 75 basis points…
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Price analysis 9/21: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, SOL, DOGE, DOT, MATIC, SHIB
The Federal Reserve hiked rates by 75 basis points on Sept. 21 and Fed Chair Jerome Powell projected another 125 basis points increase before the end of the year. If that happens, it will take the benchmark rate to 4.4% by the end of the year, which is sharply higher than the June estimates of…
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Bankruptcy court complicates suits over failed NFL facility in South Carolina
The failed endeavor to build the Carolina Panthers football franchise a new headquarters in York County, South Carolina, has resulted in a thorny legal battle over who is to blame. Construction on the planned $800 million mixed-used facility in Rock Hill, meant to include state-of-the-art training facilities, office space, millions in utility investments, and green…
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