Kevin Bain, formerly Detroit’s director of strategy, has joined Public Sector Consultants. Kevin Bain, formerly director of strategy for the city of Detroit, has joined Public Sector Consultants as a senior strategist for climate and project finance. The nonpartisan public policy consulting firm’s reputation and history of innovation in the green bank space drew him
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“A lot of the strategists and pundits who petitioned Senators and Congressmen on our behalf for the municipal market have their hair on fire, worried that the exemption is going to go away,” said Eric Kazatsky, head of Municipal Strategy for Bloomberg Intelligence. ”It’s not as easy as just saying with the stroke of the pen
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Romania’s constitutional court has annulled last month’s first round of presidential elections after evidence that the leading candidate benefited from Russian intervention. The unprecedented decision to strike down the vote, which was won by far-right candidate
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Massive fires burning in northern California and Oregon in September blanketed San Francisco with smoke.Bloomberg News Wildfire resilience projects became the first beneficiary of California’s Climate Catalyst Revolving Fund — created as part of a larger package of ESG-related efforts by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019. The state’s Infrastructure and Economic Bank, charged with running
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<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20648548/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipal bonds were little changed in secondary trading as the focus shifted to the primary market amid several large deals while municipal bond mutual fund inflows topped $1 billion. U.S. Treasuries were mixed and equities ended in the red. Lipper reported fund inflows of $1.154 billion for the week
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The French parliament on Wednesday voted to oust prime minister Michel Barnier over his proposed deficit-cutting budget, plunging the country into deeper political turmoil. A motion of no confidence was approved by 331 votes in
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In this article PSTG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Low-angle view of sign with logo on facade of technology company Pure Storage in the Silicon Valley town of Mountain View, California, October 28, 2018.  Smith Collection/gado | Getty Images Pure Storage shares rallied after announcing a contract with an unnamed “top four” AI hyperscaler
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<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20627705/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals were steady Wednesday as the market saw another heavy slate of new issuance and inflows continued into muni mutual funds. U.S. Treasuries made gains and equities broke more records. Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell in a televised interview Wednesday said “little to alter the market’s view that
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In this article SKYY IGV XLK CRM MRVL AAPL AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Yuichiro Chino | Moment | Getty Images Technology stocks powered to new highs on Wednesday as the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rallied 1% and investors poured into key software and megacap players. The Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) advanced
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A UK-led operation has uncovered a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme run out of London, Moscow and Dubai that enabled Russian spies and European drug traffickers to evade sanctions using cryptocurrency. The UK’s National Crime Agency said on Wednesday that its “Operation Destabilise” investigation centred on two companies — Smart and TGR — that acted as
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Plainwell Community Schools was among the Michigan districts to have bond measures fail in November.Plainwell Community Schools Michigan’s Plainwell Community Schools had a $39.8 million bond measure on the ballot Nov. 5, its second attempt this year to secure voter approval for capital projects in the district. The new bond had been downsized from the
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