The London Stock Exchange recently celebrated 25 years of its FTSE4Good range of indices, designed to assess and boost corporate “sustainability”. Strictly excluded were firms involved in areas such as tobacco and weapons that were considered controversial. The restrictions quickly expanded to exclude the defence industry, fossil fuels and gambling. The subsequent rush to ESG…
Key Points Small-cap stocks have consistently lagged large-cap stocks over the past 15 to 20 years. But small-cap earnings growth is expected to hit 17% in 2026 and 18% in 2027, finally providing the catalyst for share prices to move higher. The Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (VBR) is up 20% year to date, and it’s…
Reaza Ali (pictured top), national business development manager at Heartwood Financial Group, emphasized in a recent interview with Canadian Mortgage Professional that focusing too strongly on the national figures might not be the right approach for mortgage professionals in regional markets. “There are segments in the Canadian lending landscape and the Canadian real estate market…
“We’re seeing that core inflation number stay close to target, it’s telling us that this is a supply shock. It’s not an overheating economy. So raising rates wouldn’t actually fix the problem. It would actually do the opposite. It would slow down and act on an already fragile growth economy. So the rate decision to…
A medical emergency can occur at any time. It can easily complicate finances, add stress and affect the day-to-day lives. It can also lead a person to take high-interest-rate personal loans or other forms of borrowing. A medical emergency can test a family’s financial resolve. Health insurance provides a family with financial protection, but a…
BATON ROUGE, La., July 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — We Auto in Baton Rouge, LA, is making used vehicle ownership more accessible by offering flexible financing solutions for shoppers with a variety of credit backgrounds. We Auto in Baton Rouge, LA, is helping drivers take the next step toward vehicle ownership by offering flexible financing solutions designed…
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Financial institutions have traditionally organized customers using familiar metrics: income, assets, credit score and spending patterns. Those variables determined who qualified for a mortgage, which credit card they received and how aggressively they were marketed new financial products. But findings in “The Pay Later Ecosystem Report: Consumers Will Let AI Recommend Pay Later, But They…
“We have thousands of open disaster projects dating back to Hurricane Katrina, ballooning disaster costs, a bureaucracy that feels like you need a Ph.D. to navigate, and little common sense,” said House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Sam Graves, R-Mo. Bloomberg News While the Department of Homeland Security wrestles with many issues and criticisms, pressure is…
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has notified the Cost Inflation Index (CII) at 384 for FY2026-27, a key number used to calculate indexed cost for eligible long-term capital gains. While Budget 2024 largely did away with indexation for long-term capital assets, the benefit has not disappeared entirely. A limited category of taxpayers selling…