The Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C. Joshua Roberts | Reuters The Federal Reserve announced it will lower its benchmark rate bya quarter point, or 25 basis points, days after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election. Economic uncertainty was a prevailing mood heading into Election Day after a prolonged period of high inflation left many
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<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20192719/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals and U.S. Treasuries improved Thursday and equities ended mixed after the Fed cut rates 25 basis points and left the door open for further cuts in December. Triple-A yields fell three to seven basis points Thursday while govies were better by up to 11 basis points, retracing some
“Going into Election Day, Republicans held 57 legislative chambers nationwide, and Democrats held 41, a Republican edge that we’ve seen nationally since the Tea Party wave in 2010,” said Ben Williams, NCSL. ”We have as of right now, 54 chambers with Republican control, 35 chambers with Democratic control. We have one chamber that looks like it
A balcony above a trading floor inside the Euronext NV stock exchange in Paris, France, on Monday, March 13, 2023. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S.-listed funds tracking global stocks largely pulled back in Wednesday’s session as investors considered Donald Trump’s victory harmful to international equities. Closely followed exchange-traded funds from iShares tracking
<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20173584/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipal bonds sold off Wednesday, following U.S. Treasuries to much higher yields in a risk-on trade after a sweeping victory by former President Donald Trump and a Republican takeover of the Senate. Equities saw massive gains on the day. The red wave that took the presidency and the Senate
In this article PHM DHI LEN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Homes in the south suburban Chicago area on April 26, 2023. Brian Cassella | Tribune News Service | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump’s victory spurred a rise in in the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield. Mortgage rates, which loosely follow the benchmark yield, are
“We hope to act as a resource to the industry, trying to provide some additional knowledge, research findings that can help the market,” said Martin Luby, the Center on Municipal Capital Markets’ director.University of Texas at Austin The role of capital markets in financing infrastructure is the focus of a university-based center recently launched in
Copper Mountain Solar in El Dorado Valley, pictured on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in Boulder City, Nevada. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Bizuayehu Tesfaye | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Solar stocks sold off overnight as investors see Donald Trump leading in the U.S. presidential election. Solar stocks are falling
Period red-brick home rooftops in a suburb overlooking London’s financial district. Oversnap | E+ | Getty Images LONDON — Britons are facing the prospect of higher mortgage rates for longer after the government’s tax-and-spend budget threw off expectations for a series of near-term interest rate cuts. The Bank of England is widely expected to cut
Three-term incumbent Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown lost his seat in a close race Tuesday night. Former President Donald Trump appeared close to re-taking the White House late Tuesday and Republicans won a majority in the Senate while the House remained too close to call. Republicans late Tuesday appeared to take control of the Senate after
Courtneyk | E+ | Getty Images First-time homebuyers in the U.S. are getting older. The median first-time homebuyer has reached an all-time high of 38 years old — three years older than in July 2023, according to the National Association of Realtors’ 2024 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers report. This summer, NAR polled 5,390 buyers
High growth and population shifts in some areas of the country are spiking property taxes, causing taxpayer revolts and potentially endangering funds used to support bond issuance. “The property tax won’t win any popularity contests with homeowners, but it still has an important role to play in public finance,” said Jared Walczak, vice president of
Election watchers are likely to have their first glimpse of results once some polls close in Indiana and Kentucky, the states where in-person voting booths shut down first. The pair are Republican strongholds, though, and may not reveal much about how the close races will pan out. The first of the important swing states to
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump raced across key battleground states in the final hours of campaigning in a last push for votes, as Americans prepared to head to the polls on Tuesday in one of the closest presidential elections in modern history. The US vice-president said America was ready for a “fresh start” and claimed
Hollywood High School is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is asking voters to authorize $9 billion of bonds.Bloomberg News The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest in the US, is asking local voters to approve the sale of $9 billion in school construction bonds Tuesday to modernize its aging facilities
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 24, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stocks typically rise after a presidential election — but investors need to be prepared for some short-term choppiness first, history shows. The three major benchmarks on average have seen gains between Election Day and year-end in
<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20133839/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals were firmer Monday as market participants brace for likely volatility due to the dueling events of the election and the Federal Open Market Committee rates decision. U.S. Treasury yields fell, with the greatest gains out long, and equities were down near the close. The two-year municipal to UST
An aerial view of existing homes near new homes under construction (UPPER R) in the Chatsworth neighborhood on September 08, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images U.S. homeowners are sitting on a record amount of equity, but higher interest rates over the past two years have made them reluctant to tap
Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will use their final day on the campaign trail stumping for votes in Pennsylvania, the presidential election’s biggest battleground state where polls continue to show the candidates
A power substation near the LC1 CloudHQ data center in Ashburn, Virginia, United States. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Technology companies’ push to directly power artificial intelligence with nuclear plants hit a major roadblock, after a federal regulator rejected a request to increase power for an Amazon data center. The Federal Energy Regulatory
Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House Kamala Harris and Donald Trump made their final appeals to undecided voters and sought to rally their supporters in swing states as polls showed the election going down to the wire in
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