The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Municipal Securities has a new deputy director and is seeking a financial analyst to join its team in either of its Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Atlanta or Chicago offices. That’s according to an SEC spokesperson and a posting on USAJOBS, the official job portal for the federal government.
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BP’s problem, like that of the other oil supermajors, is it has more money than it can justify what to do with. BP knows what it would like to do with the windfall profits being made from the Ukraine-induced rise in energy prices: return them to shareholders. It announced a 10 per cent rise in
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, has launched a high-profile utility and microgrid project in a bid to transform a legacy of heavy manufacturing into a high-tech, climate-friendly economy that attracts advanced manufacturers. The plan, which features a public utility and a series of microgrid districts, will likely be structured as a public-private partnership. The county “was thrilled”
Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan on Tuesday night in the highest-level visit by a US official for decades, defying Chinese threats of a military response. The trip by the Speaker of the US House of Representatives has become a test of how far Beijing will go to deter foreign support for Taiwan and of China
The writer is a former deputy governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Vladimir Putin infamously predicted that Ukraine would be conquered in a matter of days. The west was equally sceptical about Ukraine’s chances of surviving a Russian onslaught. However, it has been more than 150 days since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion
John Luke Tyner, fixed income analyst at Aptus Capital Advisors, discusses yield curve inversion with Bond Buyer Managing Editor Gary Siegel. Tyner looks at recession possibilities and how the Federal Reserve’s actions will impact the economy, the yield curve and recession. (23 minutes) Transcription:Gary Siegel: (00:03) Hi, and welcome to another Bond Buyer podcast. I’m
Liz Truss was on Tuesday forced to abandon her plan to cut the pay of public sector workers living in poorer areas of Britain by a total of £8.8bn, after the proposal drew ferocious cross-party criticism. The foreign secretary’s Tory leadership rival Rishi Sunak had claimed Truss’s plan for regional pay settlements would leave millions
Millions of students are heading back to class this month and next. Stores are crowded with school supplies for the K-12 crowd and dorm room gear for college students. You don’t see a ton of items in the big box aisles for making your home more back-to-school ready, but a good setup plays a role
Asian markets usually ignore imminent visits by US politicians below secretary of state grade. Not when the politician is Democratic bigwig Nancy Pelosi and her mooted destination is Taiwan. Indices bumped downwards in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. The Taiwan dollar plunged to a two-year low. Chinese warplanes have been roaring over the Taiwan Strait.
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin China Evergrande Group’s creditors are now facing even dimmer prospects of ever getting their money back, as the country’s real estate crisis spreads and claims on the developer’s assets continue to pile up. The deeply indebted company failed to meet its own deadline to unveil a
The writer is professor of public policy at the University of Cambridge The IMF has made it official: growth will be slow and inflation high for the foreseeable future. For the UK, expected to be one of the worst-performing major economies, this grim outlook comes on the heels of slow growth since the financial crisis.
This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday. Liz Truss has promised to save £11bn a year by cutting pay for public sector workers — including civil servants, teachers and nurses — outside London and the South-East. The
Stocks fell and US government bond prices rose as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s expected visit to Taiwan raised the prospect of a forceful response from China’s military. Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng index fell as much as 3.2 per cent on Tuesday, later trimming some of its losses. China’s CSI 300 index of Shanghai-
President Xi Jinping’s wolf warrior diplomats excel at withering rhetoric when they want to belittle and dismiss people whose words and deeds, as they so often say, have “hurt the feelings” of all 1.4bn people in the People’s Republic of China. Xi had ample opportunity to instruct China’s diplomats and its state media apparatus, which
China is ratcheting up military activity around Taiwan ahead of a potential visit by US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, who is expected to land in Taipei on Tuesday night. Several Chinese fighter jets flew close to the median line that divides the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday morning, according to a Taiwanese
The writer is a partner at the Dutch law firm Resor As the world of decentralised finance continues to grow, there is much demand for a digital currency fit for use in blockchain-based applications with near-real-time, peer-to-peer global settlement that can be used as a medium of exchange. However, most cryptocurrencies are too volatile for
As Britain sweltered through the country’s hottest day on record last month, supermarket delivery vans wove around the streets as usual delivering shopping to people’s homes. But while the vans have technology to keep the food and drink chilled in the back, a surprising number don’t provide the same service to the humans in the
The pound is shrugging off the chance of an overhaul to the UK’s economic policy as Tory leadership hopefuls outline starkly different plans for public spending and borrowing. Liz Truss, the foreign secretary and frontrunner in the contest to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister, has outlined tax cuts costing more than £30bn, suggested that
The UN has called it the world’s first climate-change-induced famine. Madagascar’s government agrees it is a result of the west’s carbon-fuelled lifestyle. A number of scientists and experts disagree, saying it is actually a consequence of poverty and poor governance. For the people of southern Madagascar, unaware of the international furore, it is known simply
The loss of confidence in China’s property sector could feed into a contagion that would further drag down the Chinese economy, analysts warned. The comments come after beleaguered developer China Evergrande Group failed to deliver a promised $300 billion restructuring plan over the weekend. In filings with the Hong Kong stock exchange, Evergrande instead said
Pinterest shares surged more than 20 per cent after hedge fund Elliott Investment Management revealed itself as the company’s largest shareholder and expressed support for its new chief executive. The announcement helped offset disappointing second-quarter results from Pinterest that reflected softness in the digital advertising market, which has afflicted several of its social media rivals.