China sends a clear message with live-fire drills in Taiwan Strait

UBS will act as an early user of the platform. Credit: PJ McDonnell/Shutterstock.com US financial research company MSCI and Swiss banking giant UBS have forged a strategic partnership focused on improving transparency in private markets. The collaboration will bring together MSCI’s data, analytics and modelling capabilities with UBS’s alternatives expertise and its insights from clients…

Utah launched the country’s first artificial intelligence (AI)-powered prescription refill program in January, partnering with startup Doctronic to let an AI chatbot renew certain chronic medications without a physician actively approving each request, PYMNTS reported. Six months later, the pilot has become a national flashpoint. Physicians, patient safety advocates and regulators are raising questions the…

“Ransom Canyon” star Josh Duhamel’s Los Angeles home has come under offer just days after it was put on the market—as the actor and his family continue to spend more time living at their rural off-grid cabin.

The government has been asked to commit to publishing the final Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill by autumn after failing to respond to a report on the draft bill. Housing Secretary Matthew Pennycook wrote to the Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee, saying the government would be unable to respond to its report…

Commercial real estate’s booming data center industry is suddenly not in an Empire State of mind. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is slated to sign an executive order Tuesday morning enacting the nation’s first statewide moratorium on construction of the large-scale data center facilities that have been powering the country’s increased usage of AI. The…

Odeta Kushi (pictured top), deputy chief economist at First American, said the housing market’s underlying fundamentals are more favorable than the rate-driven noise suggests. “I’ll go back to our analogy, which is really that it’s the tide that matters,” Kushi told Mortgage Professional America. “There’s a lot of short-term volatility that we see, and there’s…