SMHX: Top Holdings Are Expanding The Market, Not Competing

NatWest has increased fixed rates across almost all of its new business mortgage products, with rises ranging from 0.01 percentage points to 0.2 percentage points since last week. The largest single rise was to the 95% loan-to-value (LTV) five-year fixed purchase rate, which increased from 5.29% to 5.49%, a rise of 0.2 percentage points….

Co-ops offer New York house hunters one of the rarest commodities in the city that never sleeps: a discount. Across all five boroughs, co-ops were the least expensive property type in 2025, according to a Realtor.com® analysis of listing data dating back to 2019. In Manhattan, the markdown crossed the $1 million threshold, with a…

TV mogul Oprah Winfrey has gone back to where her media career started—returning to her former hometown of Chicago, where she enjoyed a sweet reunion with her former colleagues on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” weeks before the 40th anniversary of its premiere episode. The 72-year-old media personality was joined for the emotional occasion by her…

The wheat complex is trading with contracts 3 to 7 cents lower at midday, but bouncing off the early session lows. Chicago SRW is showing 6 to 7 cent losses on the day. KC HRW futures are slipping 5 to 6 cents at midday, but well off the early losses. MPLS spring wheat is down…

A real estate attorney says the pied-à-terre tax has structural complications for co-ops and condos that brokers need to understand