With a huge airport bond deal potentially on the horizon, Houston Controller Chris Brown is concerned about bringing the debt to the market in the wake of a crackdown by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on compliance with state laws prohibiting governmental contracts with companies, including investment banks, that “boycott”  or “discriminate” against the  fossil
Bitcoin (BTC) sought to pressure $35,000 on Nov. 4 as weekend markets continued to consolidate higher. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView “Significant” event sets up BTC price upside Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price support holding after the end of Wall Street trading. The largest cryptocurrency saw a revisit of intraday
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former US Department of State official Anyone who expected much daylight, let alone serious tension, between the Biden administration and
States would suffer deep cuts in water infrastructure funding they receive through state revolving funds, which make up a significant corner of the municipal bond market, under a bill passed Friday by the U.S. House of Representatives. The fiscal 2024 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations measure, House Bill 4821, totals $37.4
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jobs growth in the US slowed sharply in October, according to a fresh labour market report that is likely to shape interest rate expectations for the world’s biggest economy. US employers added 150,000 new roles
A sign ‘FOR SALE’ seen outside a house in Edmonton on October 22, 2023, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images The National Association of Realtors announced Thursday that CEO Bob Goldberg will resign earlier than expected, as the group contends with the fallout from
Inflation-adjusted revenues of the 50 states were down 13.7% January through August compared to the same period a year earlier, the Urban Institute reported, but despite this states remain fiscally healthy, thanks to prudent use of recent surpluses, one analyst said. In nominal terms, revenues were down 9.7% in the period. August state tax revenues