30-year mortgage rate jumps to 7.17% — a nearly 2-year high — in the latest blow to the housing market

If you have recently switched jobs, don’t expect your provident fund (PF) balance to move to your new employer’s account immediately. Under EPFO’s new transfer mechanism, the process is triggered only after your new employer deposits the first EPF contribution. “…Whenever an employee joins a new job and the first month’s PF contribution is received…

Ken Griffin’s hedge fund, Citadel LLC, has been called the most profitable hedge fund in history. It currently manages around $68 billion, and has posted average annual returns of 19.2% after fees since 1990. The fund is highly analytical, employing 260 PhDs who use 100 petabytes of data to make daily trading decisions. The firm…

The wheat complex is trading with contract rallying on Friday across the three markets. Chicago SRW contracts were up 7 to 9 cents, as September was down 1 3//4 cents this week. KC HRW futures were 13 to 15 cents higher, with September up ½ cent on the week. MPLS spring wheat was up 8…

Lately a hotspot for sustainable finance, MENA states could face lower demand in the wake of the Gulf conflict. This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. Investors abhor uncertainty but are not afraid of risks. That dictum is being tested in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which has…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The best leaders don’t spot trends earlier — they spot constraints earlier, meaning the problems customers have quietly accepted as the cost of doing business, which is exactly where the next $107 billion market is usually hiding. Speed to market is really speed to learning:…