UK home sellers increased their asking prices at the slowest pace for any October since 2008, as economists trimmed their growth forecasts for the wider economy, reports published Monday show.
Almost a third of British consumers are planning to reduce spending on Christmas this year as the burden of lofty inflation weighs on shoppers.
The bad news keeps coming for Britain’s lettings market, as a surge in mortgage payments pushes more landlords to the brink and threatens to pile extra misery on tenants.
The blistering rally in Japanese stocks has unfairly benefited companies that are flouting the bourse’s campaign to boost valuations, creating a major short opportunity, according to a top-performing hedge fund manager.
The blistering rally in Japanese stocks has unfairly benefited companies that are flouting the bourse’s campaign to boost valuations, creating a major short opportunity, according to a top-performing hedge fund manager.
New Zealand’s center-right political parties have begun to jockey for position as Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon prepares to enter talks to form a coalition government.
The race by Republican presidential contenders to stockpile campaign cash and influential donors ahead of the expensive 2024 primary season is hitting full swing, while President Joe Biden is building a formidable war chest for the general election.
The Biden administration will tighten sweeping measures announced last October to restrict China’s access to advanced semiconductors and chipmaking gear, as the US seeks to prevent its geopolitical rival from developing cutting-edge tech that could lend a military edge.
US President Joe Biden spoke with Secretary of State Antony Blinken Sunday as his top diplomat met with Arab leaders about the Israel-Hamas conflict and efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza.
Rainer Gut, who engineered the mergers and acquisitions that transformed Switzerland’s Credit Suisse Group AG into a goliath global investment bank, one that proved difficult for subsequent generations of executives to manage, has died. He was 91.
