Category: Business
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Treasury Bill Curve Shows the Debt Ceiling’s ‘Red-Letter’ Date Is Causing Anxiety
While the latest rhetoric from Washington is in favor of a so-called clean increase in the debt ceiling, the Treasury bill market isn’t buying it. Traders are already willing to pay more for debt expiring after October to avoid being caught holding securities potentially vulnerable to a technical default as bills maturing Oct. 5 are…
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Hotel plans collapse, but Sanford airport officials optimistic another will come through
Sanford airport – When plans were announced in January for a new 110-room hotel to be built at the Orlando Sanford International Airport property, Seminole County officials touted it as another sign that the small — but fast-growing — airfield was gaining a greater role in Central Florida tourism scene. After all, the airport — tucked…
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After spinoff, Wyndham timeshare company will be new Orlando headquarters
Even as it faces ongoing criticism for its new website rollout, Wyndham Worldwide’s timeshare company is set to spin off from the parent company, maintaining its Orlando headquarters. Wyndham has always based its timeshare subsidiary, and that company’s CEO, in Orlando. With the new spinoff, the timeshare company will be listed separately on the stock…
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In state-ordered election, Poinciana homeowners can’t topple developer
Despite a state-ordered redo of the vote, Poinciana homeowners again failed to wrest control of one of the state’s largest homeowners associations from the sprawling community’s developers. As officials worked to count the votes late into the night Tuesday, state Rep. John Cortes, D-Kissimmee, said he tried to watch as a neutral party. However, the…
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Incident report on Cloudflare parser bug
Cloudflare reported last night a bug in their service which could have leaked information from the services using their edge cache servers. Feedly uses Cloudflare as a security shield which increases the reliability and performance of the Feedly web application. As such, Cloudflare informed us it is possible that some of the Feedly Web request performed between…
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Seminole switching to natural-gas garbage trucks
Seminole County residents soon will notice that garbage trucks cruising through their neighborhoods sound quieter and belch out less exhaust. That’s because county commissioners recently mandated that Seminole’s two waste-hauling companies replace their aging fleet of diesel garbage trucks with those that run on compressed natural gas, more commonly known as CNG, over the next…
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Orlando hires ‘night manager’ to oversee nightlife scene
City officials and nightclub owners alike call it “the push” — starting around 2 a.m., downtown Orlando’s bars and clubs direct their Friday and Saturday night customers toward the exits, often creating a chaotic scene outside. As a veteran of downtown Orlando nightlife, Dominique Greco Ryan has seen how a night of having fun can…