“I believe we’re at the bottom of this market, so even though we’ve been bruised by the start of this year there’s some optimism for the fall markets,” he said. Source: CENTURY 21 Canada The Prairies posted Canada’s strongest results, as per the survey, extending a multi-year trend. Regina’s 13 percent gain in detached homes…
Key insight: FDIC and OCC proposed CRA rule changes aimed at curbing grant funding for “activist causes.” What’s at stake: Exams would narrow to focus mainly on lending, dropping deposit services from the retail assessment. Forward look: The proposal is subject to a 60-day comment period once it hits the Federal Register. WASHINGTON — A…
Multi-asset allocation funds dominated investor preference in the first half of 2026. According to AMFI data, the category attracted net inflows of around ₹38,027 crore during January-June 2026, compared with ₹5,586 crore for balanced advantage funds (or dynamic asset allocation). Both categories belong to the hybrid-fund universe and are often considered by investors seeking an…
Alberta reversed its 2025 position as the sole province to rise across the board, posting modest overall declines, though Calgary and Edmonton held steady and smaller centres including Red Deer and St. Albert recorded modest increases. Geneva Tetrault, owner of CENTURY 21 Masters in Edmonton, Alberta, described the shift as a long-overdue normalization. “We’ve really…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Silicon Valley luminaries taught him how to be ok with standing out when making investments. “The thing I really learned from Peter Thiel and Paul Graham, both in two different ways, which is that the very best companies, the very best investment opportunities are almost never the ones that look…
Marcus & Millichap closed the sale of 235-237 Kent Ave., two mixed-use buildings in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, for $16.4 million. “We are happy to successfully complete a round trip for our seller, whom we previously sold the property for $12.3 million in 2021 during the pandemic,” said Shaun Riney of Marcus & Millichap in New…
A decade of disciplined SIP investing has rewarded investors handsomely in a select group of equity mutual funds. Only seven diversified equity schemes have generated annualised SIP returns of over 20% during the past 10 years, turning a ₹10,000 monthly investment into a corpus of ₹34.8 lakh to ₹38.8 lakh. The list, which excludes sectoral…
NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Consumer365 has named Sharps Assure among its recommended resources for safe at-home needle disposal in 2026. The company’s mail-back program gives households and other small-quantity waste generators a structured way to contain, package, ship, and document the destruction of used sharps. Best Ways to Dispose of Needles at Home…
Dearness Allowance (DA) is a percentage of basic salary aimed at offsetting the impact of inflation for government employees and pensioners. Reviewed twice a year, new announcements are usually made annually in March and October, with rollouts in July the same year and January in the next year. DA is a component of the basic…
I got married in April of 2000 after living with my now-ex-husband for several years. At the time, I made a good living from my job in advertising, and like many of my colleagues, I’d been doing freelance work on the side for years. In 2001, my husband and I became proud homeowners, one of…