World Steel cuts 2026 demand forecast on China, war disruption

12:01 AM, 14th August 2026, 1 week ago 4 Starts on new build-to-rent homes fell 79% in the year to June 2026, according to a Savills analysis for Real Estate:UK. That left 2,176 homes entering construction, down from 13,893 a year earlier. Starts outside London fell 84%, while the number of homes under construction nationwide…

Winning a bill is one thing. Getting a hand in how it gets carried out is another, and White made that the next fight. “We’ve asked to have a seat at the table of implementation,” he said of provisions preserved in the final law, including an FHA pilot for mortgages under $100,000 and a CFPB…

EFG International has reported revenue-generating assets under management (AUM) of SFr196.3bn ($240.73bn) at the end of June 2026, representing a 21% increase from a year earlier.   Net profit for the first half was SFr184.6m, up 5% from the H1 2025 and 13% from H2 2025, excluding exceptional items recorded in 2025.  Net new assets totalled SFr5.7bn over…

StoneX Financial Pty Ltd (SFA), a subsidiary of StoneX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: SNEX), said it has been granted approval by New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA) to offer milk price risk management solutions to retail dairy farmers in the country. The announcement on Tuesday was made in a joint release from the company’s Sydney and…

Key Takeaways NVIDIA’s annual revenue grew from $9.71 billion in fiscal 2018 to $215.94 billion in fiscal 2026, roughly a 22-fold increase. The Transformer architecture emerged more than five years before ChatGPT, illustrating how foundational technologies can develop quietly before reaching broad market attention. Quantum computing may be in a similar research phase, with advances…

West One has made four appointments to its mortgage division sales team. The lender said this was a sign of it investing in its intermediary relationships and supporting brokers across the UK. Joining the team as regional account manager for central London is Harry Galvin. Galvin joins from Go Finance, where he worked as a…