Canada, UK to develop separate defense financing institutions

The national 90-plus-day non-mortgage balance delinquency rate edged down to 1.76% from 1.79% in Q1, but remained above the 1.70% recorded a year earlier. “Between March and June, we typically see non-mortgage debt levels rising and missed payments falling,” said Rebecca Oakes, Vice President of Advanced Analytics at Equifax Canada. “And while rising delinquency levels have…

The yield on the 10-year note finished August 14, 2026 at 4.68% while the 2-year note ended at 4.17%. The chart below overlays the daily performance of several Treasury bonds, starting from the pre-recession equity market peaks, along with the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) since 2007. This next table shows the highs and lows of…

If the headlines are to be believed, the world’s largest banks are racing to deploy autonomous artificial intelligence agents to manage complex, multi-step tasks without human oversight. Insiders say: take that with a pinch of a salt. The pressure to roll out agentic AI systems is real and palpable. “Chief executives will get fired if…

Assets under management reached a record SFr412.6bn as of 30 June 2026. Credit: Cineberg/ Shutterstock.com. LGT Group reported first-half 2026 profit of SFr281.6m ($351.37m), marking a 17% rise from a year earlier. Net new assets came in at SFr12.3bn, equal to an annualised growth rate of 6.4%. Access deeper industry intelligence Experience unmatched clarity with…

The first thing I noticed was the silence. Waking up in our new home, we found it so quiet in the mornings. Whereas a few weeks ago, I’d hear my dad shuffling around upstairs making his early-morning tea, or my mom listening to Reels, our house was suddenly deathly quiet before the kids opened their…