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The principal driver behind the year’s rate surge has been the US-Iran conflict, which began in late February and sent crude oil prices higher, stoking sustained inflation expectations. Long-term bond yields, which mortgage rates generally track, moved accordingly. As of midday Thursday, the 10-year US Treasury yield stood at 4.71%, compared with 3.97% before the conflict began. In…
Lincoln Property Company and Strategic Value Partners, LLC, have completed the redevelopment of The Bluffs at Playa Vista, a 500,000-square-foot Class A office campus in Playa Vista’s live-work-play community. More than 57,000 square feet in new leases were recently signed at The Bluffs ahead of the repositioning’s completion, including The Honest Company’s 38,240-square-foot headquarters relocation and Thrive Causemetics’…
Aspiring first-time buyers are potentially ruling themselves out of getting a mortgage over beliefs they will be declined because of their circumstances, a survey found. A Lloyds study of over 1,000 prospective first-time buyers found that 37% of respondents feared getting rejected for a mortgage. Many felt their financial circumstances would automatically make them ineligible for…
Anthropic expects its initial public offering to reach a record high, equaling or surpassing the one set by SpaceX, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 20), citing unnamed sources. SpaceX achieved the biggest-ever first-time sale when it raised $75 billion at the outset, and it later increased that figure to $86.2 billion with an overallotment option, according…
News Published: Friday, August 21, 2026, 8:18 [IST] At least 40 stocks are in focus on Friday due to bonus issues, rights issues, buybacks, and dividends. Of the total, 35 stocks are turning ex-date, while only one stock has fixed August 21st as the record date for the bonus issue of a 2:1 ratio. Notably,…
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) help risk-averse investors tap into sector-specific opportunities without the risks associated with owning individual stocks. One of those is financials, which typically includes everything from banks to insurance companies. One of the most well-known ETFs in the financials sector is the State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF -0.92%). XLF seeks…
Dollar Sinks Amid US Treasury Bond Buyback Uncertainty, Market Worries Grow US Treasury Bond Buyback and Its Impact on the Dollar By Rae Wee SINGAPORE, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The dollar was on shaky ground and set for a weekly loss on Friday, as investors viewed the U.S. Treasury’s bond buyback gambit as merely a…
Japanese 10,000-yen banknotes arranged in Kyoto, Japan, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Kentaro Takahashi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s historic effort to prop up the yen may have had an unintended consequence: giving some investors a better opportunity to double down on carry trade. Japanese investors net bought more than 5 trillion yen of…
Regional divergence grows sharper The national picture conceals stark regional contrasts. West Palm Beach, Florida led pending sales gains with a 9.6% year-over-year increase, followed by San Francisco at 4.7%. Seattle posted the steepest decline, with pending sales down 17.9% year over year, and Houston fell 16.3%. For brokers originating in Texas markets, that trajectory…
Key insight: Banco Santander finalized its acquisition of Webster Financial on Thursday, marking the closure of the largest U.S. bank M&A deal to be announced this year. What’s at stake: Santander is positioned to significantly increase its scale and profitability in the U.S., where it has been trying for years to be a larger retail…