<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21179756/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals improved Wednesday amid a large new-issue slate, though underperformed a U.S. Treasury rally, after the consumer price index showed a slowdown in inflation. The CPI came in below expectations, while the core CPI, which strips out the more volatile costs of food and energy, was softer than expected.
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Chicago general obligation debt was downgraded by S&P Global Ratings, which cited the city’s inability to confront its structural imbalance.Bloomberg News S&P Global Ratings downgraded Chicago’s general obligation debt to BBB from BBB-plus Tuesday, saying the city’s 2025 budget fails to address a persistent structural imbalance. The outlook, which S&P placed on credit watch negative
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Jeffrey Gundlach speaking at the 2019 SOHN Conference in New York on May 5, 2019. Adam Jeffery | CNBC DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach believes the Federal Reserve is missing the bigger picture again. “The Fed looks like Mr. Magoo, driving around, bumping into things. Then became systematic, got inflation to come down,” Gundlach said in an
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<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21164578/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals were weaker for the third consecutive trading session amid a heavy new-issue calendar, while U.S. Treasury yields fell slightly and equities ended mixed. Several large new-issues priced into a weaker market, including San Francisco International Airport, Jacksonville Electric Authority water and sewer bonds, Miami-Dade County School Board, Dallas
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First-time homebuyers may struggle to find adequate starter homes when the 2025 buying season begins this spring. The homes that once gave Americans a stepping stone into real estate are disappearing, according to experts. While the exact definition of a starter home varies, they’re typically under 1,400 square feet. In 2023, just 9% of the
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<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21148409/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipal yields continued to climb higher Monday as U.S. Treasuries were weaker and equities ended mixed. Municipal yields were cut one to eight basis points, depending on the scale, while UST yields rose, pushing 10-, 20- and 30-year yields to yearly highs. “Fixed income is beginning 2025 where it
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A flight engineer performs a test flight in a CAE Inc. 7000 Series Boeing Co. 737-800 flight simulator at a CAE facility in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. Christinne Muschi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Company: CAE Inc (CAE) Business: CAE provides simulation training and critical operations support solutions in Canada, the
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“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” is the important question posed by the Roman poet Juvenal, translated by the English author Alan Moore as “Who watches the watchmen?”. But it is perhaps a question with a complacent implicit assumption. It presupposes that it is possible to watch the watchmen — and all that one needs to do
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