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By the end of last year, experts were expecting 2025 to mark a rebound of the U.S. housing market, with buyers’ demand boosted by the slightly slower pace of home price growth and rising inventory.
Over six months into the year, however, this forecasted scenario has failed to come to life. Instead, the U.S.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump is a “transitional” figure in American politics, said Oren Cass, founder of conservative think tank American Compass, who contends that tariffs should be used to reshape markets to revitalize U.S. industry.
“The old policies weren’t working very well,” he told Nikkei in a recent interview.
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By CORA LEWIS, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores suffer now that the U.S. government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection.
After 90 days of non-payment, student loan servicers report delinquent, or past-due, accounts to major credit bureaus,
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Warren Buffett is a big fan of Chevron (CVX 0.53%). His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 118.6 million shares of the oil giant, or about 6.8% of its outstanding stock. Those shares are currently worth $17.1 billion. That makes Chevron Berkshire’s fifth largest holding,
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) has emerged as a leading artificial intelligence company, offering AI data analytics to the U.S. government and businesses. And the company is growing quickly, with sales rising 39% to $884 million and adjusted earnings increasing 63% to $0.13 per share in the first quarter.
That second figure is especially notable because many AI start-ups aren’t profitable,
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MY YOUNGER son has begun his investment journey via a balanced portfolio – the majority in equities, 15 to 20 per cent in bonds and the balance in gold.
However, our eldest son took a very different path. Instead of building a balanced portfolio from the start, he invested 100 per cent in stocks,
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Stock futures were staging an early comeback Monday after sharp declines on Friday.
As the conflict between Israel and Iran shows no signs of cooling, any recovery in stocks will likely be fragile. Over the weekend, Israel attacked command centers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and some oil facilities,
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Sterling was muted against the dollar on Monday ahead of a Bank of England meeting this week, with markets adopting a wait-and-see approach to rising geopolitical uncertainty, as a conflict between Israel and Iran showed no sign of abating.
Sterling was marginally up against the dollar at $1.359, after falling as much as 0.7% to a low of $1.3518 on Friday,
Novak Djokovic has revealed that the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games is the sole professional motivation keeping him in tennis, amid ongoing speculation about his retirement plans.
Djokovic, 38, last won a Grand Slam title at the 2023 US Open. He went on to secure his first Olympic gold medal at the 2024 Paris Games by defeating Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz,
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