Wall street analysts feel good about one of our retail stocks but apprehensive about another. The news on Home Depot Telsey Advisory Group, a leader in retail industry analysis, upgraded Home Depot stock to a buy-equivalent outperform on Friday. The research firm also increased its 12-month price target to $455 per share from $360, implying
A rendering of the Central Ohio Transit Authority’s bus rapid transit system.Central Ohio Transit Authority Bonds are part of the plans for a transit sales tax measure voters in Columbus, Ohio, approved this week. Voters in the Central Ohio Transit Authority service area approved a sales tax measure with more than 56% in favor. The
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Robert Lighthizer, who was US trade representative when Donald Trump launched his trade war with China, has been asked to take the job again as the president-elect starts to build his cabinet team.
Alistair Berg | Digitalvision | Getty Images In the past decade, private investments exploded from $4 trillion to $14 trillion. Primarily led by institutional capital, investors poured money into private markets in their search for differentiated returns and alpha generation. This makes sense as alternative investments have consistently outperformed global public markets on 10-, 15-,
Election workers sort mail-in ballots Tuesday in Martinez, California.Bloomberg News California voters were friendly to municipal bonds in Tuesday’s election, with a few notable exceptions. The state’s voters passed two separate $10 billion state bond measures and put their stamp of approval on at least $42.8 billion of local school general obligation bonds. Tuesday’s ballot
Jenniffer González Colón, a supporter of statehood for Puerto Rico, was elected the next governor of the island. Three of the five biggest bond referendums in the Southeast region passed on Tuesday, with voters agreeing to requests from Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Fairfax County, Virginia, and rejecting them in Cary, North Carolina, and
Jeffrey Gundlach speaks at the 24th Annual Sohn Investment Conference in New York, May 6, 2019. Adam Jeffery | CNBC DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach said Thursday that interest rates could shoot higher if Republicans end up controlling the House, securing a governing trifecta that gives President-elect Donald Trump free rein to spend as he pleases. Gundlach, a
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Executive Director Joe Echelle said inflation boosted the cost of every line item in the 15-year ACCESS Oklahoma program.Oklahoma Turnpike Authority The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority authorized on Thursday the issuance of $1 billion of revenue bonds to continue financing the controversial ACCESS Oklahoma expansion program with a projected price tag that has
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
<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
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