Entering October, mortgage interest rates have risen across the board. The trigger was the Bank of Japan’s decision on September 18 to raise the policy interest rate to 1.25%. The policy rate has continued to rise every three to six months, from 0.75% last December to 1% this June.
I personally own two studio apartments in Tokyo with variable rate mortgages.
Stock-market investors spent much of 2026 learning to live with things that would normally make them nervous.
Higher interest rates, expensive oil, sticky inflation, and Treasury yields are at levels not seen in decades. So far, strong earnings and the AI boom have kept the market remarkably close to record highs.
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Berkshire Hathaway just spent nearly $200 million buying into a homebuilder whose CEO admits conditions have deteriorated, margins are shrinking, and almost half of visitors can’t qualify for a mortgage. What does Warren Buffett’s successor see that the market clearly…
On Oct. 1 and 2, as mortgage rates rose toward a three-year high,
By most measures, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock should be soaring, particularly given its subpar performance this year so far.
Yet, it isn’t. Despite delivering 486,532 electric vehicles (EVs) in Q3 versus analysts’ consensus estimate of only 461,974, shares of this EV outfit have barely budged since last Friday’s report.
Barclays strategists expect the global equity market to face more restrictive financial conditions as the monetary easing cycle draws to a close, although they continue to see scope for European stocks to advance towards the end of 2026.
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Americans stepped up their participation in retirement plans and saw their savings grow in recent years, a new analysis from the Federal Reserve finds.
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MobiKwik surged nearly 25% and PhysicsWallah gained 19.68% during the week, leading gains among new-age tech stocks
The gains came despite an RBI rate hike and persistent foreign investor selling, which kept the broader market under pressure
AceVector became the 67th stock in Inc42’s listed new-age tech universe,
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When taking out a home loan,
have you ever thought, ‘I’m afraid of interest rates rising with a variable rate loan’?
While researching home loans myself, I learned about terms like the ‘5-year rule’ and the ‘125% rule’.
But at first, I honestly didn’t understand them well.
Bitcoin spent the last five years soaring to dizzying highs and cratering to gut-wrenching lows, yet two far less exciting assets quietly left it in the dust. The reason why reveals something surprising about timing, risk, and what growth actually…
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