China’s elites are stockpiling supplies of Paxlovid, Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral drug, and giving it away to curry favour with business associates as an unprecedented Covid wave sweeps the country, leaving hospitals stripped of resources and ordinary people struggling to access medication. Multiple public and private hospitals told the Financial Times that the drug, which is
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Municipals were weaker Tuesday, outperforming a U.S. Treasury sell-off, while equities were mixed. Municipals were cut up to six basis points, depending on the scale, while UST yields rose as much as 12 basis points. Muni-UST ratios were steady Tuesday. The three-year muni-UST ratio was at 59%, the five-year at 64%, the 10-year at 67%
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The 2023 rulemaking agenda for both the Securities and Exchange Commission and Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board will be dominated by pre-trade, post-trade, and time of trade regulations and the complications involved in the Commission adopting its own best execution rule. SEC Chair Gary Gensler has altogether 35 proposed rulemakings outstanding across equity and fixed income
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“Bitcoin (BTC) is Freedom” is one of Bitcoin’s many epithets. Like “Bitcoin is digital gold,” “Bitcoin is property,” or even Bitcoin is absolute digital scarcity, these phrases ricochet around the walls of Bitcoin-themed conference arenas. They’re also memed into eternity on social media. But one of Bitcoin’s overarching mantras is “Don’t trust, verify.” Rooted in
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Cointelegraph looks back on the best and worst-performing cryptocurrencies of 2022 among the top 100 assets by market capitalization. We used the highest and the lowest year-to-date (YTD) returns through the close of Dec. 25, 2022. Overall, Cryptoindex.com 100 (CIX100), an index that tracks the 100 best-performing cryptocurrencies, fell nearly 68% YTD, suggesting most top
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Call: -Allows you to buy stock -If you have one call that means you are able to buy that stock at your set price -It has to reach the set price on or before your contract’s expiration -If it doesn’t reach the set price, your contract deteriorates in value and you lose your option premium
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In this video, we recap the general effects of interest rate changes on currencies and then explore how central banks use interest rates to control inflation. As interest rate changes are so important for Forex traders, we look at the rate-decision schedules and inflation targets for the central banks of the major currencies. Test and
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Cryptocurrencies were mostly consolidating on Dec. 26, as markets remained muted following the Christmas weekend. Bitcoin remained marginally above a key support point at $16,800, whilst ethereum remained near a ceiling at the $1,230 mark. Overall, the global crypto market is up 0.20% as of writing. Bitcoin Bitcoin (BTC) remained slightly above a ceiling at
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Todd Bunton, CFA, Growth & Income Stock Strategist at Zacks Investment Research, discusses a stock that might be worth a closer look by investors: DineEquity (DIN). This restaurant company recently delivered solid second quarter results, driven by the strongest same-store sales growth at its IHOP brand in over a decade. Analysts revised their estimates higher
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Chinese officials estimate about 250mn people, or 18 per cent of the population, were infected with Covid-19 in the first 20 days of December, as Beijing abruptly dismantled restrictions that had contained the disease for almost three years. The estimates — including 37mn people, or 2.6 per cent of the population, who were infected on
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