When the pandemic first struck in early 2020, it sent shockwaves through the world of state and local finance. Since then, budgets in most places have stabilized following massive infusions of federal relief dollars to states and localities directly and to American households. At the same time, certain key state and local…
As with the financial firms, many of the companies with deforestation policies were not reporting progress sufficiently. Of the 233 firms with some form of commitment, 40 have provided no progress data at all within the past 12 months. A further 50 have reported on progress for some,…
China has seen booming growth of green finance, backed by policies and regulations, as the country accelerates its green transition and economic restructuring to achieve high-quality and sustainable development. The People’s Bank of China launched a carbon emissions reduction facility in November to offer low-interest loans to financial…
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida will leave the central bank two weeks earlier than planned, following increased scrutiny into financial transactions he made in 2020 — while the Fed was taking action to save the U.S. economy. Clarida, who served as the central bank’s No. 2 official on monetary…
The labor market posted a twelfth consecutive months of job growth in December, albeit with gains coming at a rate slower than many expected. Consensus economists expected that December payrolls increased by over 400,000, or more than double the tally from November, when a slowdown in service-sector hiring…
The Company is engaging Proactive and Maximus to increase general market awareness for Hapbee within the North American investment community. Proactive and Maximus have agreed to comply with all applicable securities laws and the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") in providing the Services. The agreements…
"Long term, I love cryptocurrency, I love Bitcoin. But the charts — and I'm a technician — are just not showing that," Gareth Soloway, president and CFO of InTheMoneyStocks.com told Yahoo Finance Live. "Bitcoin for me, has a nasty head-and-shoulders pattern on it. Believe or not, in early 2022, or…
Contracts on all three major indexes were down to extend a bearish day, spurred by the release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) meeting December 15 that flagged concerns from policymakers about worsening inflation and signaled more aggressive intervention by the central bank. Renewed pressures…
The Great Resignation hit the healthcare sector hard in November, and the numbers are colliding now with a steep rise in the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released job numbers yesterday showing that healthcare is among the top three industries cited in a…
Binance Smart Chain-based yield farming protocol Arbix Finance was identified by blockchain security company CertiK as a rug pull. According to the firm’s incident analysis, there were several reasons why the project was flagged. The security firm states that "The ARBX contract has mint() with onlyOwner function, 10 million…
