Trump threatens to halt trade with certain countries if Fed doesn’t cut rates

Reddit’s CEO has begun airing his concerns about Google’s AI Overviews search feature. That’s according to a report Saturday (Aug. 1) from Ars Technica, which said Steve Huffman addressed this issue in his latest letter to investors, arguing for Reddit’s function as “the antidote to an automated web” as artificial intelligence tools proliferate. “AI compresses…

Heading into the back half of the year, Australia’s property market is vastly different to just 12 months ago. According to REA’s Market Snapshot July 2026, the volume of new buy listings had declined by 2 per cent compared to 12 months ago. You’re out of free articles for this month The data showed…

Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, convicted for genocide, has died, UN official says

As investors’ borrowing capacity becomes restrained following recent interest rate rises and tax reforms, failing to structure loans properly can lead to further costly consequences. According to Strategic Brokers director, Hung Chuy, the top three borrowing mistakes among investors were using cross-collateralisation, failing to have a buffer in place, and not considering all their loan…

Nationwide and Virgin Money are the latest lenders to make mortgage rate increases. Nationwide’s rate changes will take effect from 30 September, including its two-, three-, five- and 10-year fixes, as well as its two-year tracker products.  Increases of between 0.06% and 0.18% will be made to two-, three- and five-year fixed new and…

New rental supply is helping cool rents in parts of Canada, but rising development costs are making the next round of projects harder to build, according to a survey commissioned by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Some 72% of respondents said they had paused or cancelled projects in their pipelines in response to rising costs…