Silence After a Mortgage Data Breach Drives Risk

On Tuesday, derivatives marketplace CME Group announced plans to launch Sorghum basis futures, with trading expected to begin on 24 August 2026, pending regulatory review. Sorghum is a versatile commodity positioned to meet demand from the domestic feed industry, international export markets and, increasingly, biofuels.  The new basis contract reflects the price difference between sorghum…

Specialist property finance brokerage Word On The Street arranged more than £108m in property finance in 2025-26, a record for the firm. This was a 62% annual growth in the value of business over 239 cases, a 130% year-on-year increase in the number of cases facilitated by the firm.  Word On The Street also posted a 75% jump in…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) (Taipei: 2330 and NYSE: TSM) may be the most important business most people have never heard of. Right now, you’re probably carrying products that it has made. Most consumers recognise names such as Apple and Nvidia. Yet behind many of the products they sell sits a Taiwanese manufacturer responsible for…

Beware of statistics, especially from interest groups pursuing an agenda. Construction unions, for example. They’re advancing a narrative that if you want a job done safely, it has to be done by them. Unions have been saying this for decades, but it’s amplified when a high-profile story like buckled columns at the former Pfizer building…

Data from the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia (REIWA) showed Perth’s listings rose 14.8 per cent higher than May, and 58.3 per cent higher than a year ago. You’re out of free articles for this month Meanwhile, time on the market extended, with houses spending a median of 18 days in June, four…

New Syrian parliament meets for first time in Damascus