Nearly half of America’s private colleges and universities reported negative operating margins in fiscal year 2023, and the situation was even worse in the Midwest, according to preliminary data compiled by Merritt Research Services. Within the Midwest region, roughly 50% of colleges in the east north central states had negative operating margins, while 67% of
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Rooftops of homes in a gated residential community are seen in Pico Rivera, California on January 18, 2024. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images After a brief reprieve in December and January, mortgage rates are moving higher again, and that is taking its toll on mortgage demand. Total mortgage application volume fell 2.3%
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK inflation stayed steady at 4 per cent in January, undershooting expectations and bolstering hopes that the Bank of England will soon feel it has enough evidence of price pressures easing to cut interest rates.
A visitor takes pictures in front of a wooden dragon themed sculpture displayed to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year inside the flower dome at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore on February 1, 2024. Roslan Rahman | Afp | Getty Images Millions of Chinese around the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year, ringing
The number of distressed charter schools rose to a record in the beginning of 2024 as the sector struggles with the end of pandemic assistance and rising costs. So far this year, five charter schools have become impaired, meaning a borrower has defaulted on their debt, broken a covenant or used some emergency means to
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US foreign policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Joe Biden sharply rebuked Donald Trump for saying he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies that did not spend enough on defence, as the US president pleaded for Republicans in Congress to pass
Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. The prospect of three consecutive negative total return years, a GAO ruling giving congress the power to review the DoT’s multimodal discretionary grant funding opportunity, and a proposed new tax on electric vehicles are among the latest developments in the Capitol that
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Professional services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US law firm Latham & Watkins is cutting off automatic access to its international databases for its Hong Kong-based lawyers, in a sign of how Beijing’s closer control of the territory is forcing global firms
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — China is facing a confidence deficit as its economy undergoes massive transition and concern grows over its ongoing property crisis, a top banking CEO said while onstage at Dubai’s World Governments Summit. “China’s biggest problem to me is a lack of confidence. External investors lack confidence in China and domestic
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bankruptcy proceedings will not be paused despite a request from bond parties, U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain said Monday. Though the First Circuit Court of Appeals is considering how bond parties’ liens on PREPA’s revenues should be treated in the bankruptcy, Swain said regardless of that court’s
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to put on a hold a ruling that barred him from using presidential immunity as a shield against criminal charges accusing him of meddling in the 2020
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro wants to tap the commonwealth’s surplus revenues for his wide-ranging budget agenda. The Democrat proposed sweeping changes to Pennsylvania’s K-12 and higher education systems and $500 million of borrowing to fund his new economic development plan in his budget address on Tuesday. The budget proposal was $48.34 billion, an increase of
In this article JPM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Over two thousand attendees are descending on the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach for the annual Exchange ETF conference. To entice participants, the organizers rented out the entire LIV Nightclub Miami at the hotel for a Super Bowl party Sunday night. While much of the conference
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The founders and top executives of the largest private equity groups in the US have seen the value of their shares rise by over $40bn since the beginning of 2023 as new assets have poured
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tech companies have axed 34,000 jobs this year as they rejig their workforces to invest in new areas such as generative artificial intelligence to power their next phase of growth. Microsoft, Snap, eBay and PayPal
In this article EPD VZ MPLX VZ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT People visit the Verizon stand at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain February 27, 2023. Nacho Doce | Reuters A strong fourth-quarter earnings season is underway, and it’s time for dividend-paying companies to shine. Resilient dividend-paying companies can offer long-term
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Far more Americans trust Donald Trump to handle the US economy than Joe Biden despite months of strong growth, a new poll has found, underscoring the president’s difficulty in convincing voters his policies are improving
A Norfolk Southern rail terminal in Austell, Georgia, US, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images Company: Norfolk Southern (NSC) Business: Norfolk Southern is a railway company. It transports a variety of raw materials, intermediate products and finished goods in the United States. Stock Market Value: $57.56B ($254.83 per share)
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The amount US financial institutions have loaned to shadow banks such as fintechs and private credit groups has passed $1tn, as regulators warn that growing ties between traditional and alternative lenders could present systemic risks.
In this article FLNC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rows of cabinets containing lithium ion batteries supplied by Fluence, a Siemens and AES Company, are seen inside the AES Alamitos Battery Energy Storage System, which provides stored renewable energy to supply electricity during peak demand periods, in Long Beach, California on September 16, 2022.
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