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A flurry of new funds focused on high-yield bonds have hit the ETF market in recent months as riskier corporate bonds find themselves at a crossroads. The latest to join the fray is the BlackRock High Yield ETF (BRHY), which debuted on Tuesday. The fund’s managers also run the BlackRock High Yield mutual fund, which has a four-star rating from Morningstar and yields about 6.5%. “It’s a substantially similar ETF. Mutual funds and ETFs are similar,” said BRHY, a mutual fund manager at the University of Pennsylvania. [have] Same portfolio manager, same investment objective. “It’s important to give investors more…

Here’s a look at some of the companies catching our eye in midday trading: La-Z-Boy – Shares soared more than 19% after the furniture company beat Wall Street expectations in its fourth-quarter results. La-Z-Boy reported adjusted earnings of 95 cents a share on $554 million in revenue. That beat expectations of 70 cents a share on $516 million in revenue, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG. Rocket Lab USA – Shares in the space company rose about 9% after it inked a 10-launch deal with Japanese Earth observation company Synspective. The new launches are expected to take place between 2025…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Monday in response to a Wall Street Journal report last month that suggested the Fed governor was advocating cutting proposed increases in capital requirements for large U.S. banks in half. Warren also said the report suggested that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and other top bank executives ” [Powell] It’s widespread.” The Wall Street Journal reported in May that at a meeting in Washington last fall, Dimon “instructed his fellow CEOs to ignore the central bank’s vice chairman for banking supervision, Michael Barr, and instead press…

The Nifty50 and Sensex hit fresh record highs on Tuesday, led by gains in banking and IT stocks and positive performance in global markets.The Sensex rose 308 points to 77,301 and the NSE Nifty rose 92 points to close at 23,558.Sector highlights:- Nifty Realty rose 1.9% on the back of strong performances from Phoenix Mills and Mahindra Lifespace Developers.- The Nifty IT index rose 0.6 per cent, led by Wipro, which rose over 3 per cent after extending its contract with Hanesbrands and securing a new one with GBST.-Nifty bank index ended up 0.9% higher led by IDFC First Bank,…

Dive Overview: In an investor presentation on Tuesday, Citi executives sought to highlight the bank’s services business, which CEO Jane Fraser called the bank’s “crown jewel.” The services division, one of five new businesses introduced in Citi’s major shakeup, includes liquidity management services, payments, trade and working capital solutions and securities services. It accounted for about half of the bank’s profits. First QuarterCiti is facing pressure from investors to follow through on its restructuring plan, and executives have stressed the importance of the unit to the bank’s overall performance. Still, the New York City-based bank expects revenue growth in its…

In fact, the hashrate has already started to decline since hitting an all-time high in March, dropping 10% to 589 EH/s as of June 17, according to data from Hashrate Index. Most miners are located in the US, particularly humid Texas, so any shutdowns by North American companies will likely hit hashrate growth. “According to data from the University of Cambridge, roughly 37% of Bitcoin mining takes place in the US,” Blockware said. “As the summer continues to heat up, it is reasonable to expect US-based miners to experience heat-related shutdowns.”

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Panoramic view of central Corfu with a small restaurant in the old town of Corfu, Greece, May 2024.Sopa Images | LightRocket | Getty ImagesEuro zone inflation rose to 2.6 percent in May, statistics agency Eurostat said on Friday, but the better-than-expected figure did not shake market expectations of a rate cut by the European Central Bank next week.Economists polled by Reuters had expected an increase of 0.1 percentage point from April’s headline reading of 2.4 percent.Core inflation, which strips out the impact of changes in energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices, rose to 2.9 percent from 2.7 percent in April.…

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun leaves a meeting with Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, in Hartville, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Calhoun was meeting with the senators about recent safety issues, including the grounding of the 737 MAX 9 aircraft.Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesBoeing Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun is scheduled to testify before a Senate committee on Tuesday about the company’s safety and manufacturing crisis after a door panel blew off a nearly new 737 Max 9 jet in January.Calhoun, who has said he will step down by the end of the year, will face questioning from the…

Jubilant Foodworks Ltd shares were trading 2.53 per cent higher at Rs 543.8 at around 10.10 am (IST) on Tuesday, while the benchmark BSE Sensex rose 337.64 points to 77,330.41. A total of 31,295 shares were traded on the exchange, amounting to Rs 169 crore. The stock has a 52-week high of Rs 586.35 and a 52-week low of Rs 420.85. On the technical chart, the stock’s 200 DMA was Rs 505.34 and 50 DMA was Rs 477.18. If the stock is trading above its 50 and 200 DMA, it usually means that the immediate trend is up. On the…