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John Miller’s New High-Yield Muni Fund Dominates Market in 2024

(Bloomberg) -- It’s been a banner year for high-yield municipal bonds, and in particular the category’s star money manager, John Miller, who joined First Eagle Investments in January after nearly three decades at Nuveen.Most Read from BloombergHo Chi Minh City Opens First Metro Line After Years of DelayThe Architects Who Built MiamiReviving a Little-Known Modernist Landmark in BuffaloNew York’s Congestion Pricing Plan Still Faces Legal HurdlesNew York City’s Historic Preservation Movement Is Hav

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Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week

(Bloomberg) -- Volatile weather and the US bird-flu outbreak are making the upcoming holiday menu more expensive as the price of coffee, cocoa and eggs soar. Meanwhile, OPEC expects oil demand to climb in 2025, driven by China, India and other Asian nations. Electricity use also is rising, with a key North American agency revising its projections significantly upward. Also revised higher is demand for coal, contrary to earlier estimates that said its use peaked last year.Most Read from Bloomberg

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Wall Street Sides With Fed and Sees Lower US Bond Yields in 2025

(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street is taking its cues from the Federal Reserve, forecasting short-term US Treasury yields to fall in 2025 despite the looming threat of President-elect Donald Trump’s trade and tax policies on the bond market.Most Read from BloombergHo Chi Minh City Opens First Metro Line After Years of DelayThe Architects Who Built MiamiReviving a Little-Known Modernist Landmark in BuffaloNew York’s Congestion Pricing Plan Still Faces Legal HurdlesNew York City’s Historic Preservation Mo

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Wall Street opens mixed as holiday-shortened week starts

Wall Street's main indexes were mixed at the start of a holiday-shortened week on Monday, after a stopgap government funding bill averted a partial shutdown and investors braced for a slower pace of rate cuts from the U.S. central bank next year. At 09:45 am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 132.48 points, or 0.32%, to 42,704.92, the S&P 500 gained 1.04 points, or 0.01%, to 5,931.36, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 57.63 points, or 0.31%, to 19,630.23. Most heavyweight megacap and growth stocks gained, with Nvidia adding 1.6% and Meta Platforms up 1.4%, buoying the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq.

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