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www.standard.co.uk
9 months ago
London

London to be hit by 1.4 billion mortgage timebomb

L ondon home owners face a devastating 1.4 billion mortgage ticking timebomb over the next three years as they are forced to replace cheap fixed rate deals with far more expensive loans, according to new analysis.Research by the Resolution Foundation think-tank warns that the Bank of England interest rate hikes from 0.1 per cent to 4.5 per cent since December 2021 means that repayments will balloon for thousands of London families.
www.independent.co.uk
10 months ago
UK news

What the papers say May 26

The Immigration debate was the focus for the majority of Britain's newspapers on Friday.The Guardian revealed Home Secretary Suella Braverman's plan to deport 3,000 asylum seekers a month.The Mirror says ministers have been accused of losing control on immigration after figures hit a record high last year.
Boston.com Real Estate
2 years ago
Boston real estate

Long-term U.S. mortgage rates slip for the first time in 4 weeks

(Bloomberg) - Mortgage rates in the US dropped for the first time this month.
The average for a 30-year loan was 3.89%, down from 3.92% last week, Freddie Mac said in a statement Thursday.
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Coindesk
10 months ago
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Hovers Below $27K as Fed Chair Powell Makes Modestly Dovish Comments

Bitcoin ( BTC) continued to hold below $27,000 as U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said stress in the banking sector might allow the central bank to ease back on rate hikes as it looks to curb hot inflation.The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was recently trading at around $26,800, up roughly 0.3% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinDesk data.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin rallies 25% as crypto markets rebound

The bitcoin bulls are back.After getting pummeled by losses for the better part of last year, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are rallying in 2023, prompting speculation that the so-called crypto winter the digital asset world's equivalent of a bear market is over.Bitcoin, the world's most popular crypto, is up 25% over the past month, hovering above $20,000 for the first time since November, when the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried's trading platform FTX sent shock waves through the industry.
Bitcoin
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Robert Kiyosaki Warns of 'Biggest Bond Crash Since 1788' - Waiting to Buy Bitcoin at Lower Price

Robert Kiyosaki Warns Bond Market Is Crashing
The author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, has made several fresh predictions about the stock and bond markets.
HousingWire
10 months ago
Real estate

Housing Market Tracker: Spring inventory grows

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week.The fear of not having an increase in inventory this spring should be put to rest.The other focus should be where mortgage rates go; only a little happened last week.Here's a quick rundown of the last week:

Active listing rose 8,260 week to week, down a bit from last week's gain, but I'm not complaining - anything on the plus side is positive.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Business

Wall Street rises on relief over banks and inflation.

Wall Street's worries eased on Tuesday, as investors took comfort from signs that a potential banking crisis appeared contained and bet on a more supportive environment for the economy going forward.The S&P 500 rose 1.7 percent, lifted by a recovery in some bank stocks and bolstered by gains for heavyweights like Microsoft and Apple, which because of their size have a bigger impact on the performance of the broader index.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Bank of England pushes back start of gilt sale to November 1

The Bank of England has said it will delay the sale of Government bonds to November 1 due to the fiscal announcement later this month.
the Guardian
1 year ago
UK politics

IMF criticises Kwarteng again over tax cuts and energy package

Kwasi Kwarteng has come under fresh fire from the International Monetary Fund after the Washington-based organisation said his tax cuts and energy support package had made the Bank of England's battle against inflation more difficult.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

Warren Buffett is missing out on this year's market comeback | CNN Business

A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business' Before the Bell newsletter.Not a subscriber?You can sign up right here.Warren Buffett is arguably the most legendary investor of all time.But the Oracle of Omaha has missed out on this year's stock market rally.So far, at least.Shares of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) conglomerate, a company that owns businesses ranging from Geico and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad to consumer brands like Dairy Queen, Duracell and Fruit of the Loom, are down slightly this year lagging the market, as the S&P 500 is up 6%.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Canada news

Quebec's public pension fund reports loss of 5.6 % in 2022 | CBC News

Quebec's public pension fund manager, the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, reported a loss of 5.6 per cent in 2022 a year marked by a simultaneous decrease in both stock and bond markets.Net assets declined by $18 billion to $402 billion as of Dec. 31, according to the results released Thursday.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | CPI Checks Most of Powell's Boxes. Now What?

The inflation story took a turn for the better on Thursday when the government reported that the consumer price index fell 0.1% from a month earlier.Policymakers at the Federal Reserve will play down the report's significance and reiterate their commitment to keep fighting volatile prices.But in private, they have to be elated.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Bank of Japan's 'Technical' Policy Change Is Anything But

Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), during a news conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022.Kuroda shocked markets by doubling a cap on 10-year yields, sparking a jump in the yen and a slide in government bonds in a move that helps pave the way for possible policy normalization under a new governor.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Recession Anxiety? Not in the Credit Market

The corporate debt market is still doing its part to keep America out of a recession.As economists and yield curve indicators warn about a potential downturn in 2023, the signs of any kind of credit panic remain conspicuously absent from primary issuance markets and corporate spreads.Amazon.comInc. is among 19 investment-grade companies that sold bonds this week, closing out November at about $104 billion in issuance, according to Bloomberg Intelligence data, in what's typically one of the last spurts before bankers and investors start checking out for the winter holidays.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Tech industry

Instacart Is Said to Pull Plans to Go Public This Year

Instacart, the food delivery company, is pulling its plans to go public in 2022, in the latest sign of turmoil in the public markets, three people with knowledge of the situation said.
SFGATE
1 year ago
SF real estate

Real estate funding model in danger as ECB's easy money era ends

Rising interest rates and the end of easy money are causing pain for vast swathes of the economy, but for the European real estate sector the drying up of central bank largesse threatens an entire way of doing business.
Washington Post
2 years ago
Business

Analysis | Yield Curve Is Often Right But for the Wrong Reasons

A key part of the U.S. yield curve inverted on Tuesday, which is a reliable indicator that a recession is coming.Or maybe not.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
World politics

Ukraine's difficulties on the bond markets leave it more reliant on foreign aid.

KYIV, Ukraine  The Ukrainian government has struggled to raise money on bond markets during the war and is paying investors more than it is collecting, according to a Central Bank statement that points to the country's deepening dependence on foreign aid.About a fifth of Ukraine's territory is occupied by Russian forces.
Nytimes
1 year ago
World politics

Your Friday Briefing: Ukraine Launches a Southern Counteroffensive

We're covering a Ukrainian counteroffensive and an effort by Europe's central bank to tamp down inflation.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Bank Of Japan Decision Will Ripple Around the World

The year isn't yet done with rattling investors' cages.The Bank of Japan's surprise widening of its yield curve-control policy on 10-year government bonds will have an impact far beyond its shores.The decision may be ostensibly designed to improve the functioning of its domestic government and corporate bond markets - which have sunk into an illiquid quagmire - but the unspecified reasons may be more compelling.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | UK Budget Balancing Act Has to Be Credible to Markets

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has the unenviable task in Thursday's Autumn statement of balancing the nation's books without plunging it into recession.The reaction of the bond market will tell us whether he got the equilibrium right.The size of Britain's fiscal hole, purportedly as deep as £50 billion ($59 billion), will be revealed with the concomitant release of the Office for Budgetary Responsibility's financial estimates.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | A Crisis Is Coming in Europe, the Only Question Is Which Kind

European governments are facing a choice of which kind of crisis to have: an energy crisis or a fiscal crisis.The global economy may hang in the balance.
Harvard Business Review
1 year ago
Business

Can Zombie Firms Survive Rising Interest Rates?

Companies that can't pay their debts are supposed to turn things around or go out of business.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Why Ghana Went From Hero to Zero for Investors

Ghana, which is set to become Africa's newest oil exporter at the end of this year, may pump as much as 240,000 barrels of oil from its offshore Jubilee field by 2014-15, the state-owned Ghana National Petroleum Corp. said yesterday.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Stock Market's Summer Fling Wasn't the Real Thing

Summer was supposed to be a period of relative inactivity in markets, and it seemed as though A-Team traders were free to go about their vacation plans without fear of missing out on significant developments.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Tech industry

FTX investors fear they lost everything, and wonder if there's anything they can do

Jake Thacker in Portland Ore. had about $70,000 worth of investments in his account on FTX.He may have lost it all.Jake Thacker FTX spent big money to make trading crypto popular and gain people's trust.The company had an arena in Miami named after it and aired scores of TV commercials with superstars like Tom Brady and Steph Curry.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Paris overtakes London as Europe's largest stock market

Britain has lost its position as Europe's largest stock market, as Paris overtook London for the first time since records began in 2003.While Rishi Sunak and his chancellor Jeremy Hunt prepared to announce tens of billions in tax hikes and public spending cuts in Thursday's autumn statement, concerns over growth loomed large in Britain's fall from the top spot.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Austerity cuts could mean end of NHS', warns ex-Bank of England deputy

The scale of the austerity cuts looming if the Liz Truss government does not reverse course on the economy could result in the end of the NHS, the Bank of England's former deputy governor has warned.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

In Pictures: Liz Truss's brief tenure at Number 10

Liz Truss has resigned as Tory leader after a chaotic 44 days in office.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

Jeremy Hunt has taken his scalpel to Liz Truss's budget now the real pain starts | Gaby Hinsliff

Jeremy Hunt did his best to deploy a reassuring bedside manner.
But the Conservative party's surgeon came bearing bad news.
He had seen the X-rays, and it all had to come out.
BBC News
1 year ago
UK politics

Liz Truss: The prime minister's claims about the economy fact-checked

She told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg programme that she stood by it but said the government should have "laid the ground better" before announcing the measures, which included tax cuts paid for by billions of pounds of borrowing.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Get Ready for the Great British Fire Sale

However cheap stock markets get, the UK somehow manages to stay one step ahead.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Europe politics

The Guardian view on Italy's political crisis: Draghi should stay for now | Editorial

or almost a year-and-a-half, Italy's politics has been characterised by a highly unusual degree of stability and consensus.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Meloni Will Keep Jousting With Salvini. Just Wait.

Giorgia Meloni is on her way to completing a takeover of the Italian right.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | BlackRock Is Breaking the Wrong Kind of Records

BlackRock Inc. is used to breaking records.The world's largest asset manager was the first firm to break through $10 trillion of assets under management.But the bigger they are the harder they fall.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | The ECB Needs a Formidable Tool Against Fragmentation

Joachim Nagel, the head of the German Bundesbank, is sabotaging European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde's plans for a comprehensive safety net to prevent yields of peripheral European countries from blowing out.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | The ECB Risks Downgrading Its Bond Bazooka to Peashooter

Joachim Nagel, the head of the German Bundesbank, is sabotaging European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde's plans for a comprehensive safety net to prevent yields of peripheral European countries from blowing out.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

Will the RBA lift the cash rate this week to counter inflation - or wait until after the election?

With all the forecasting nous reputed to reside inside their HQ in Sydney's Martin Place, you'd think the Reserve Bank's intel gatherers should have seen this coming.
the Guardian
2 years ago
World news

US inflation jumped to 40-year high of 7.9% last month

US inflation surged again last month to a new 40-year high of 7.9%, propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing.
Washington Post
2 years ago
Business

Analysis | The Markets Don't Know How to Value Peace

It's always tricky to trade on potential war scenarios.Assessing any prospective fallout - as well as its magnitude - is never simple.But the flipside is also true.
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