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Municipals faced pressure outside of 10 years Wednesday, moving benchmarks on those bonds cheaper by two basis points, while U.S. Treasuries were little changed and new issues showed the spread tightening that continues on sought-after credits. In the primary, an airport deal out of Pittsburgh saw compelling levels for the sector that has seen spread
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Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wears a ground prototype of the new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), during a demonstration on Oct. 15, 2019. Joel Kowsky / NASA Elon Musk offered SpaceX’s services to help NASA make its next-generation spacesuits, after a watchdog report on Tuesday said the agency’s current
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Municipals felt the pressure of an increase of supply and a weaker U.S. Treasury market, and benchmarks saw two- to three-basis-point cuts to scales, but new issues repriced to lower yields. The 10-year muni hit 0.90% on ICE Data Services scale and just below that on Refinitiv MMD, Bloomberg BVAL and IHS Markit, reaching early
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The US Senate passed a sweeping $1tn infrastructure bill on Tuesday in a major victory for Joe Biden and congressional Democrats. Nineteen Republicans, including the Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, joined with all Democrats in Congress’s upper chamber to back the bill, which would dole out $550bn in new federal spending over the next five
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Municipal market participants question the wisdom of executing Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy without local legislative approval for new bonds and instead relying on court-approved debt, as the Oversight Board is exploring. New bonds are key to Puerto Rico’s exit from bankruptcy, as are cuts to Puerto Rico’s three main pension systems: the Employees Retirement System, Judicial
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A Falcon 9 rocket launches the Transporter-1 mission in January 2021. SpaceX SpaceX is acquiring satellite data start-up Swarm Technologies, in a rare deal by Elon Musk’s space company that expands the team, and possibly the technological capabilities, of its growing Starlink internet service. Swarm, which has 120 of its tiny SpaceBEE satellites in orbit,
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