Municipals were mixed to start the week as participants await a $7 billion-plus new-issue calendar, while U.S. Treasuries were firmer and equities were mixed. The two-year muni-Treasury ratio Monday was at 62%, the three-year at 64%, the five-year at 65%, the 10-year at 67% and the 30-year at 91%, according to Refinitiv MMD’s 3 p.m.
0 Comments
Ron Paul, the former U.S. presidential candidate and former U.S. congressman, has stated that recent geopolitical events have caused nations to start ditching the U.S. dollar. Paul stated that the debasement of the currency, the manipulation of prices, and sanctions against other nations have made other countries afraid of holding dollars. Ron Paul Believes De-Dollarization
0 Comments
It’s been slim pickings so far this year in the high-yield municipal market, with investors turning to a handful of prominent credits — restructured Puerto Rico debt, prepay gas bonds, tobacco paper — while continuing to shun troubled sectors like senior living. The story in the high-yield space follows the larger $4.1 trillion muni market,
0 Comments
The EU and Japan have pushed back against a US proposal for G7 countries to ban all exports to Russia, as part of negotiations ahead of a summit of the world’s most advanced economies. A G7 leaders’ statement being drafted for their meeting in Hiroshima next month includes a pledge to replace the current sector-by-sector
0 Comments
Dogecoin suffered a big blow on April 20, popularly known as “Dogeday” thanks to the failed test launch of SpaceX’s Starship rocket and downturn in the broader crypto market.  The SpaceX rocket, which featured the Dogecoin mascot on its side, disintegrated four minutes after its launch. Still, the company’s employees including Elon Musk cheered the
0 Comments
New York State is heading to market with a sale of green bonds aimed at refunding some debt previously issued for special projects. Loop Capital Markets and Barclays Capital as lead managers plan to price the New York State Environmental Facilities Corp.’s $150.555 million of Series 2023A tax-exempt state revolving funds revenue green bonds on
0 Comments
A property on Maryland’s Eastern Shore takes in expansive waterfront views and features a modernized historic home and a collection of separate accessory buildings. Situated on the elevated Widgeon Point, the 20-acre estate, accessed by a gate flanked by Bevolo gas lamp-topped columns, leads to a point overlooking Trippe Creek, which sits off the Tred
0 Comments
People in Sweden are feeling the effects of high inflation and tumbling house prices. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / Contributor / Getty Images The Swedish government is now predicting a deeper than expected GDP contraction in 2023, according to data released Monday, worsening an already gloomy outlook for the country’s economy. Sweden’s Ministry of Finance estimated in
0 Comments
Top Stories This Week Elon Musk threatens Microsoft with lawsuit, claims AI trained on Twitter data Microsoft has been threatened with a lawsuit from Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who claimed the Big Tech firm “illegally” trained its artificial intelligence on Twitter data. The entrepreneur suggested that Microsoft mined user tweets to train its AI-powered applications.
0 Comments