The U.S. Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority sold $35 million of bond anticipation notes at a high yield of 7% for tax-exempt notes and 9% for taxable notes. WAPA closed the deal the week of Nov. 29. High-yield investment giant Nuveen bought the $34.5 million of tax-exempt BANs and $500,000 of taxable BANs via
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In this article MRVL RIVN GOOGL S WCN-CA RJ Scaringe and team on opening day at Rivian’s manufacturing campus in Normal, IL. Source: Rivian The market volatility in recent weeks is enough to make even the most experienced investors worried, particularly as they contend with the omicron Covid variant and the prospect of tighter monetary
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Chewy (CHWY) – The online pet products retailer’s stock tumbled 10% in the premarket after it reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss. Sales were in line with Street forecasts, but profit was impacted by higher costs for labor and supply chain issues. Lululemon (LULU) – The athletic apparel
Scalability on the Ethereum (ETH) network has been a point of contention within the cryptocurrency ecosystem for years, primarily due to high fees and network congestion during periods of peak demand. The latest solution to emerge as the final fix to Ethereum’s scalability woes are Zero-knowledge rollups (ZK rollups), a form of scaling that runs
Rita Jenrette scandalized Washington in the 1980s when, as the wife of a disgraced congressman, she posed for Playboy. After reinventing herself as a New York real estate broker and eventually marrying into Italian nobility, she’s now saying arrivederci to the historic villa that’s been in her late husband’s family for 400 years. Seated in
In this article 3333-HK An exterior view of China Evergrande Centre in Hong Kong, China March 26, 2018. Bobby Yip | Reuters BEIJING — Indebted property developer China Evergrande defaulted this week with hardly a ripple in markets as most institutions remained silent. Late Thursday, Fitch Ratings said Evergrande had not confirmed payment of its
Quincy, Massachusetts, is planning a $475 million pension obligation bond sale for Tuesday that is projected to fully fund its retirement system. City officials say they are getting out front of a state directive for its municipalities to reach full pension funding by 2037 and borrowing while interest rates are still low. Ramirez & Co.
Amid rising prices, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages, governments are increasingly eying so-called progressive development agreements, or PDAs, as a way to minimize uncertainties as they embark on complex infrastructure projects. The move can reduce risks and costs and deliver a project faster, said Moody’s Investors Service analyst John Medina. “Construction costs are very
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Why do crypto traders “buy the rumor, sell the news”? Simple. Because whispers of exchange listings or big-name partnerships reach very few people… while an article in Cointelegraph can reach hundreds of thousands of crypto enthusiasts in seconds. While insiders are quietly amassing tokens on rumors, the rest of us are completely ignorant of what
In this article QUOT SDI Productions | E+ | Getty Images Company: Quotient Technology, Inc. (QUOT) Business: Quotient Technology operates as a digital media and promotions technology company that offers power integrated digital media and promotions programs for brands and retailers. The company operates through two segments: (i) Promotions segment, which offers digital coupons and
In this article AMCX Shopping carts are lined up in front of a Costco store on February 25, 2021 in Inglewood, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Friday: Costco — Costco shares rose more than 6% after the warehouse retailer posted its latest quarterly numbers a day
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Vitalik Buterin outlines ‘endgame’ roadmap for ETH 2.0 With the
San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico is often associated with baroque architecture, a historic central core and captivating city views. This country home, set on 10 acres about 8 kilometers or 5 miles from the city, offers a different perspective. The gated hacienda near the tiny town of Loma de Cabras takes in the
Poorer neighborhoods are hotter than wealthier ones. That’s the overriding finding from the New York City component of a national project to map urban heat islands. Scientists have long known that urban areas generate heat, but until now they’ve not been able to map them street by street. On a searing summer day in New
Chicago wrapped up the pricing on $1.45 billion of refinancing bonds Thursday after structural tweaks and a $1 billion tender and exchange allowed the city to scale back on the deal’s size and still meet a $250 million savings target. A look at the 10-year in the tax-exempt pieces showed spreads narrowed sharply from the
Turmoil at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, including a former general manager’s guilty plea to felony bribery, should not affect its Kroll Bond Rating Agency ratings. LADWP holds Kroll’s AA-plus rating on its water system revenue bonds and AA on its power system revenue bonds. The outlook on both ratings is stable.
The long-standing mayor of Miami Francis Suarez has now announced plans to take a part of his 401(k) payout in Bitcoin (BTC) just a month after he started receiving salary in BTC. Soon after becoming the first United States lawmaker to accept a part of his salary in Bitcoin, Suarez wants to dedicate a part
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell attends the House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 30, 2021. Al Drago | Reuters In the coming week, the Federal Reserve could decide to speed up the end of its bond-buying program and signal that 2022 is the year it expects to start hiking
This Gordon Kaufmann-designed home on L.A.’s Westside has deep roots in local history. One of the first properties ever built in Bel-Air, the trophy estate dates to the 1920s when contracting and engineering company owner Arthur S. Bent and his wife Eliza commissioned the architect to design their new home. At the time, the London-born
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Inflation grew at its fastest clip in almost four decades last month — and rising costs are hitting the biggest areas of household budgets. Inflation measures changes in the price consumers pay for goods and services. It jumped 6.8% in the year through November 2021, the largest annual spike
Municipal bonds were steady for the eighth straight session Friday as U.S. Treasuries were slightly better and stocks rose after Consumer Price Index data came as expected, though the highest since 1982. “U.S. stocks rallied after the latest inflation report did not come in as hot as many were expecting. Wall Street did not see
Brian Mayhew stepped into his job before the turn of this century, taking on fiscal responsibility for a set of bridges that urgently needed upgrades to protect them against California’s earthquakes. More than two decades and many billions of dollars in debt later, he will retire as chief financial officer of the San Francisco Bay
The well known playing card manufacturer Bicycle has announced the launch of the company’s first non-fungible token (NFT) collection. The NFT card collectibles called the “Genesis Collection” were designed by the artist Adrian Valenzuela and the first drop of NFTs were officially revealed via the NFT marketplace Kolectiv on Thursday. Bicycle Playing Card Manufacturer Aims
This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations. Bad news for Evergrande Even after all the regulatory crackdowns, China isn’t letting 2021 slip away without a few more blows to the
In this article .DJI CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday the market’s snapback has taken many investors off guard, and it’s being fueled by the rush to get back into stocks as emerging evidence indicates that the omicron Covid variant might not be as serious as first thought. “I think this caught a lot of people
The Oracle logo is displayed on the exterior of Oracle headquarters on December 09, 2021 in Redwood Shores, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Oracle — Shares of Oracle jumped 6.5% after reporting earnings and revenue beats for its fiscal second-quarter. Oracle brought in $1.21 per share
Most traders have noticed that Ether (ETH) price has seriously outperformed Bitcoin (BTC) for months now and the ETH/BTC ratio has rallied more than 230% in 2021 and recently hit a new high at 0.089 BTC on Dec. 9. To put things in perspective, Ether’s $490 billion market capitalization currently represents 54% of Bitcoin’s $903
CoreLogic, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released the Homeowner Equity Report for the third quarter of 2021. The report shows homeowners with mortgages—which account for roughly 63% of all properties—have seen their equity increase by 31.1% year over year, representing a collective equity gain of over $3.2 trillion, and an average