Robert Miller News
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The worst-performing part of the municipal market is drawing buyers as bankrupt Stockton, California’s attempt to stick investors with a loss heightens the appeal of debt backed by revenue from services such as water and electricity.
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Illinois’s biggest debt sale in 11 months showed lawmakers aren’t working quickly enough to make up ground the state lost to California in the eyes of investors.
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Illinois sold $800 million of general-obligation bonds, its first offer since becoming Standard & Poor’s lowest-rated U.S. state.
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At No. 8 last night, Dave Matthews, the musician, talked about walking around New York with his iPhone, filming artist Beezy Bailey in a fat suit. The resulting film and 28 silkscreens go on view tonight at Robert Miller Gallery in a show of their collaboration.
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Nothing is risk-free in Nicholas Jarecki’s Wall Street amorality tale “Arbitrage,” a slick financial thriller that pivots on bad decisions and ethical bankruptcy.
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Illinois is losing in the battle of lowest-rated U.S. states as its debt approaches the weakest in at least 18 years relative to California’s.
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California heads to Wall Street this week to borrow for the first time since the most-populous U.S. state earned a credit-rating boost in January, as buyers push its debt close to the strongest in more than four years.
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California’s first credit upgrade in six years shows how curbs on pension costs, a voter-backed tax boost and an improving economy have allowed it to exit Wall Street’s basement, leaving Illinois as the lowest-rated state.
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Robert L. Miller, who once worked as a lawyer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, was sentenced to two years’ probation for helping New York law firm founder Marc Dreier defraud hedge funds.
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Texas Republicans, trying to push aside their legislative opponents, have targeted Democratic Senator Wendy Davis for defeat tomorrow and may wind up with a free hand to pursue objectives such as school vouchers.
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