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US Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said Sunday that the growing use of dollar-backed stablecoins could bolster the global influence of US monetary policy. Waller told participants at the 32nd Dubrovnik Economics Conference that countries that increasingly rely on stablecoins backed by the US dollar may effectively import US monetary conditions, Bloomberg News reported Sunday. “I’ve always just looked at ​stablecoins as a payment instrument; there’s nothing evil about it, nothing dangerous about it,” Waller said. “They ​are just bringing competition into the payments world,” Reuters reported. Source: The 32nd Dubrovnik Economic Conference A contrary view was presented by his…

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News01.06.26by Zainab HussainExpanded public investment similar to the new National Housing Bank could unlock up to 200,000 currently unviable homes across England by 2031, a report has found.The impact is projected to be strongest in London and the South of England, where housing needs are most acute (picture: Alamy)SharelinesExpanded public investment similar to the new National Housing Bank could unlock up to 200,000 homes across England by 2031, a report has found #UKhousing Research by CBRE and Mandala Partners has set out how further investment of “public risk capital” can unlock housing schemes that have stalled. The report set out how…

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This article first appeared in Wealth, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on May 25, 2026 – May 31, 2026Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be one of the most powerful long-term growth themes globally. Massive investments are flowing into data centres, cloud infrastructure and advanced semiconductors to support the rapid expansion of AI capabilities. However, beneath this digital revolution lies a very real and growing physical constraint — water. As AI infrastructure scales up, so does its demand for water, a scarce resource already under pressure from climate change and population growth. This challenge is creating a less obvious but compelling investment…

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Martinns/GettyImages; Illustration by Hunter Newton/Bankrate A money market account is a type of savings deposit account that tends to offer check-writing privileges and a debit card for ATM access to your savings. Typically, savings accounts usually don’t let you write checks from the account, making money market accounts a unique option to store and tap your money when you need it. The average money market account yield is 0.45% annual percentage yield (APY) as of the week of Sunday, May 31, 2026. However, yields on the best money market accounts can be more than eight times as high — so,…

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The Department of Community Development and Applied Economics is proud to announce the launch of the Rural Development Speaker Series, a hybrid-format forum designed to spark dialogue, share expertise, and build collaboration around the future of rural communities.Hosted by UVM’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and funded by the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics and UVM’s Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships, the series will feature two presentations each semester from leading academic and professional experts.Focused on timely issues in rural community economic development, the series will explore topics such as public policy, local government, agriculture, and community…

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This article first appeared in Wealth, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on May 25, 2026 – May 31, 2026Investors looking to invest in venture capital (VC)-backed, later-stage private companies could soon get a chance through an equity crowdfunding (ECF) platform under the Malaysia Co-Investment Fund’s (MyCIF) VC/Private Equity (PE) Profit-Sharing Incentive. Gobi Partners and OSK Ventures International Bhd (OSKVI) are the first two VCs to publicly commit under the framework, with both firms now actively evaluating deals across their pipelines and in discussions with ECF platform operators, including Pitch Platforms Sdn Bhd and 1337 Ventures Sdn Bhd, on structuring the first…

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(HedgeCo.Net) A massive block sale of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust has become one of the most important crypto market-structure stories of the week, not because it changed the long-term thesis for Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, but because it exposed how institutional exits from even the most successful digital asset products can ripple through market psychology. According to reporting tied to NYDIG’s analysis, 29.21 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust changed hands on May 26 at $43.16 per share, representing roughly $1.26 billion in value. The trade was reportedly executed at a 2.3% discount to the fund’s market price at the…

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Predictable policies, improving liquidity flows and rebuilding investor confidence dominates the upcoming national budget as Bangladesh navigates a challenging economic landscape marked by inflation, sluggish investment and financial-sector vulnerabilities. Talking to The Financial Express, days before the new government’s maiden budget lands in parliament, Dr Rashed Al Titumir also explains that the government’s economic strategy is built around a five-year framework of “recovery, restoration and reconstruction for acceleration”. “The budget size remains relatively small compared to the size of our economy and the financing needs in health and education,” he says, stressing the need to increase public spending to reduce…

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