Investment losses last year eroded funding ratio gains achieved a year earlier by Chicago’s pension system, casting a shadow over a healthy pickup of taxes on the city’s audited financial results. The city’s overall net position for accounting purposes deteriorated to negative $27.6 billion in 2022 from negative $27.1 billion in 2021 due to growth
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Federal Reserve officials signalled they intend to resume interest rate increases amid a growing consensus that more tightening is needed to stamp out high inflation in the world’s largest economy. According to minutes from June’s meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, “almost all” officials who participated said that “additional increases” in the Fed’s benchmark interest
In this article META MRNA WOLF DWAC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Meta Verified displayed on mobile with Meta on screen, seen in this photo illustration, on February 27, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Meta Platforms — Shares of
Recent weeks have seen a surge in interest from traditional finance for crypto-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs). After the Securities and Exchange Commission took issue with its initial filing, BlackRock submitted a fresh application for a Bitcoin ETF on July 3. A week earlier, Fidelity led a crop of investment firms in lodging applications with the
Ireland and Luxembourg have intensified calls for tougher global rules on shadow banks in a bid to curb the risk of further financial turmoil erupting from a sector that spans everything from hedge funds to crypto firms. Senior officials from the two EU member states, which together host shadow banks with around €10tn in assets,
In this article TSLA HAL 9868-HK PDD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, the Tesla, Inc. logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Tesla — Tesla shares popped nearly 7% after the electric vehicle company
Hong Kong crypto ETFs’ rise to popularity During a June 28 interview with Hong Kong’s public broadcast agency Radio Television Hong Kong, Peishan Li, chief executive and board member of Hang Seng Investment Management, disclosed that digital asset ETFs listed in the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China have now surpassed $12 billion Hong Kong
Bitcoin (BTC) has been the “primary focus” for institutional investors over the last two weeks, according to Coinshares, as the cryptocurrency continues to hit new prihighs for 2023. In a July 3 report from CoinShares’ Head of Research James Butterfill, the analyst noted that Bitcoin-related products saw $310.6 million of inflows over the last two
Illinois headed into the new fiscal year with fresh deposits to its rainy-day and pension stabilization funds, a low bill balance, and $1 billion in available general revenue funds — hitting several high marks on some fiscal metrics that had sunk during the state’s budget impasse six years ago. The state ended the year with
People walk by electric truck maker Rivian’s newly opened storefront in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan on June 23, 2023 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Electric vehicles — Electric vehicle makers such as Rivian Automotive surged following Tesla’s better-than-expected second-quarter production and
Despite changes introduced by Twitter management since Elon Musk’s takeover, the issue around fake followers remains a persistent problem. As many as 10% of the followers of accounts belonging to crypto influencers and companies are fake, new data from dappGambl has revealed. In April 2023, Musk introduced Twitter Blue — an $8 monthly subscription for verification
Social media platform Twitter is temporarily limiting the number of posts that users will be allowed to read per day, after seeing “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation,” according to executive chairman Elon Musk. In a July 1 post, Musk said the temporary limits will see verified accounts capped at 10,000 posts per
On the same day that a 17-year-old of North African descent was killed by police outside Paris, teenagers attending a workshop at a youth centre in another of the city’s low-income neighbourhoods said his fate was a fresh reminder of the discrimination they faced in French society. “One asked, ‘since when should driving without a
Base, a new layer 2 application-focused protocol by Coinbase has just one criteria left to fulfil before being ready for mainnet launch. On June 29, the team said the Optimism-powered, Ethereum-secured network has been subject to six months of rigorous security audits — both internally and externally — its second-last criteria required for launch. “With
A Joby Aviation Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company’s initial public offering in New York, U.S., on Aug. 11, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Joby Aviation — Joby shares gained
Bitcoin (BTC) gained 12% in June, but one forecast sees the good times soon fading for bulls. In a tweet on July 1, popular trader CryptoBullet admitted that July might not offer much more BTC price upside. Trader: BTC price rally “likely” ending this month Despite a last-minute dive, thanks to a macro news event,
Another $42 billion worth of infrastructure spending dedicated to improving broadband connectivity is now moving from federal to state coffers, spurring comparisons to electrification efforts under the New Deal nearly a century ago and potentially kickstarting additional bond issuance. The Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program flows from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and is aimed
Rioting erupted across France for a fourth night in the wake of the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver of North African origin as his family prepared to bury him on Saturday in his hometown of Nanterre. The interior ministry said 994 arrests were made overnight compared with 875 on Thursday night and suggested
In this article NKE CCL FREY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A shopper leaves a Nike store along the Magnificent Mile shopping district with a purchase on December 21, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Nike — Shares dropped nearly
Polygon Labs, creator of the Polygon (MATIC) network, has proposed an architecture for its forthcoming “Polygon 2.0” project. The team suggested in a June 29 blog post that the new project should be made up of four different ‘layers,’ which will combine to create a web of networks ultimately connected to each other through Ethereum.
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