Toronto, Vancouver housing still hugely desirable despite recent challenges

A borrower just below the prevailing rate faces a different tradeoff than one who locked in 3% in 2020, so the report sorts the gap into four tiers. Of the locked-in equity, 83% sits in the most extreme one, with borrowers more than 150 basis points below the prevailing rate. California homeowners stand out. Among…

(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Buffett, not Abel, appears to still be calling the shots on stocks Warren Buffett and Greg Abel walkthrough the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders…

By Rita Nazareth (Bloomberg) — A sharp slowdown in the U.S. jobs market drove stocks higher as bond yields fell on speculation the Federal Reserve won’t be forced to raise interest rates any time soon. Those bets revived the appetite for riskier corners of the market, with the S&P 500 paring most of its weekly…

Estate agency software provider Veco has highlighted the importance of robust systems and processes for agencies considering growth or eventual sale, pointing to compliance records and operational dependencies as key areas of buyer scrutiny during due diligence. The company, which has operated for 30 years, says its Veco Plus platform consolidates sales, lettings, property management…

Utah filed 14 criminal charges, 13 felonies and one misdemeanor, against prediction-market exchange KalshiEX LLC and its co-founders, CEO Tarek Mansour and COO Luana Lopes Lara, on Wednesday, October 28. The charging filing from Utah Attorney General Derek Brown alleges one second-degree felony count of engaging in a pattern of unlawful activity, twelve third-degree felony…

ETFs focused on dividend stocks are seeing a powerful rally in October, adding to huge gains in 2026.