A US Department of Justice report on Thursday cast Joe Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” in a damaging portrayal of the president even as he was spared from criminal charges following a months-long probe. The report from special counsel Robert Hur, who oversaw the DoJ’s investigation into Biden’s handling of
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Ex-IFS Securities trader Keith Wakefield committed securities and wire fraud when, as the broker-dealer’s head of fixed income, the Chicago resident made forbidden speculative trades and embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars over a two-year period, an Illinois federal court jury found this week. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of
D3sign | Stone | Getty Images Extreme weather and climate hazards are becoming more frequent, posing a unique threat not only for homeowners, but for renters. Over 18 million rental units across the U.S. are exposed to climate and weather-related hazards, according to the latest American Rental Housing Report from Harvard University’s Joint Center for
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak has attacked Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to water down his flagship green investment programme, saying the move shows the Labour leader lacks a consistent plan. The Conservative prime minister said Starmer had a
The North Carolina Local Government Commission on Tuesday approved the Mecklenburg County and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools request for a $2.5 billion bond package. It was the largest amount of tax-exempt financing ever OK’d by the commission. Separately, State Treasurer Dale Folwell noted that the state is on the way to reaching its goal of paying down
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. It was a dire January for Chinese stocks. After falling almost 10 per cent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng stock index now trades around the same levels it did in 1997, when Tencent and Alibaba, two of
An active primary market was the focus Wednesday with the New York City TFA pricing for institutions with small changes to yields from its Tuesday retail offering, Massachusetts upsizing its GO refunding deal and Wisconsin selling green bonds in the competitive market. Triple-A muni yield curves were mostly little changed to a basis point of
Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management CEO, speaking at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York City on Sept. 28, 2023. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman is set to offer a new investment vehicle listed on the New York Stock Exchange, aiming to leverage his following among Main Street investors. The hedge fund
In this article NYCB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The New York Community Bank (NYCB) headquarters in Hicksville, New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Embattled lender New York Community Bank disclosed a litany of financial metrics in the past 24 hours in a bid to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected as “delusional” Hamas’s conditions for a deal to release the hostages it holds in Gaza, warning that accepting the terms would lead to “another massacre”. In a press
A struggling Iowa hospital’s sale to its primary competitor through a bankruptcy proceeding has closed. In a case filing by Iowa City-based Mercy Hospital, the notice of sale closing made official the hospital’s sale to the University of Iowa through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process. Mercy filed for bankruptcy in August, thwarting a push by
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Barratt has reached a £2.5bn deal to buy rival Redrow, creating the UK’s largest housebuilder, as developers weather the property market downturn. The boards of both FTSE housebuilders have recommended that all-share combination, which they
The focus shifted fully into the primary market Tuesday as the secondary took a backseat to large new-issues pricing in both negotiated and competitive markets while U.S. Treasuries halted its two-day sell off to see gains on the day. Equities ended mixed. Munis were little changed Tuesday, as UST yields fell six to nine basis
In this article BTC.CM= CLSK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An array of bitcoin mining units inside a container at a Cleanspark facility in College Park, Georgia, U.S., on Friday, April 22, 2022. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bitcoin miner CleanSpark climbed on Tuesday after the company said it will acquire new
In this article WE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Adam Neumann, Founder and former CEO of WeWork. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters Billionaire Adam Neumann is trying to buy back bankrupt real-estate company WeWork, which he founded in 2010 and was ousted from in 2019, DealBook reported Tuesday. Neumann, his startup Flow and Dan Loeb’s
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump cannot use presidential immunity as a shield against criminal charges over alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election, a US federal appeals court has ruled. In a unanimous decision handed down on Tuesday,
Corpus Christi is moving forward with Texas’ first seawater desalination treatment plant for municipal use with the aim of providing the Gulf Coast city a drought-proof water supply. In a 6-2 vote last week, the city council approved several measures including the issuance of $221 million of utility system senior lien revenue improvement bonds to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s national chip champions expect to make next-generation smartphone processors as early as this year, despite US efforts to restrict their development of advanced technologies. The country’s biggest chipmaker SMIC has put together new semiconductor
Guam’s latest proposed budget was hailed by analysts who said its approach should be copied by other U.S. territories. Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero proposed a 5.9% bigger general fund budget for fiscal 2025 days after Moody’s Investors Service raised the territory’s general obligation bonds to investment grade (Baa3) from speculative grade (Ba1); the first time
This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of
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