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The Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department’s regulation project on Libor will likely result in final guidance this coming year. Market participants expect that Treasury’s Office of Management and Budget will release the final regulation sooner rather than later. The cessation of Libor matters because existing debt and contracts may reference it, potentially impacting variable-rate
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Municipals were thinly traded and benchmark yields little changed while U.S. Treasuries were a tick better on the 10- and 30-year and equities continued their march upward. Triple-A benchmarks were left unchanged and ratios were also little changed. The five-year was at 47%, 70% in 10 and 78% in 30, according to Refinitiv MMD’s 3
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo looked out at the Economic Club of New York luncheon gathering. “It’s been a hard year. We can’t sugarcoat that,” the former Rhode Island governor said. “But there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic … We ought to take a second to look at the bright side.” One
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Two New York City pension funds have successfully completed the divestment of securities related to fossil fuel companies, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer announced Wednesday. The Trustees of the New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS) and the Board of Education Retirement System (BERS) said the action brings their total divestment across
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