European shares rebound after bond rout, inflation fuels rate worries

European shares rebound after bond rout, inflation fuels rate worries

European shares rebound after bond rout, inflation fuels rate worries
Mortgage lenders continue to nudge some rates upwards across buy-to-let (BTL) and residential purchase and remortgaging deals. Halifax has upped its homemover and first-time buyer rates by up to 0.12%, with remortgage, product transfer and further advance deals set to receive a 0.05% rise. Meanwhile, Virgin Money has increased its buy-to-let (BTL) product transfer…
12:01 AM, 17th July 2026, 17 hours ago Buy to let lending rose during the first three months of 2026, with landlords securing 58,272 new loans worth £10.8 billion, data from UK Finance reveals. Even with higher BTL borrowing costs, both figures were higher than a year earlier. UK Finance said the number of advances…
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Bonds are starting the day just a hair stronger versus yesterday’s close and there are three ways to look at it. At the most basic level, the move is so small that it doesn’t deserve any explanation (i.e. we’re close enough to unchanged to say “nothing new is happening”). But given the recent resurgence of…
Beth DiVecchia had an assignment: find a new office for The Brattle Group, a consulting firm that has been based at One Beacon St. since 2017. The 10-year lease was set to expire next year, and DiVecchia, Brattle’s vice president of operations, was hunting for a deal in Boston’s Financial District, where the office market…
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