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...House price fall | UK house prices dropped for the sixth consecutive month in September, according to mortgage provider Halifax, laying bare the effect of high mortgage rates on the property market as Britons...
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...During the Liberal Democrat conference in 2019, Guy Verhofstadt, the then Brexit co-ordinator for the EU Parliament, told the hall that the world of tomorrow was “a world of empires”, and given the choice...
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...This year, rising mortgage rates have resulted in falling sales across France....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Also on the menu are the FT’s editor Roula Khalaf; Gillian Tett, chair of the editorial board; Dan McCrum, who exposed the Wirecard scandal; Stephen Bush, associate editor and columnist; markets editor Katie...
...Professional investors will look at everything and weigh credit versus government bonds and agency mortgages versus high yield and emerging markets....
...But the problem, politically speaking, is that most countries’ mortgage markets aren’t like the UK, where most people have comparatively short-term fixed rates on their mortgage....
...Over the past week the Lib Dems have announced several new policies, including offering struggling homeowners a £300-a-month grant to pay off mortgages....
...Live Q&A: Do you have questions about mortgages and the housing market?...
...If mortgage rates keep going up — now we’re talking about 6 per cent, two-year fixed today — if these things continue, if these rising mortgage rates precipitate a correction in the housing market, if that...
...And on the broader point about the BoE mandate, it is hard to work out exactly how much of Truss’s positioning on this is about trying to minimise accusations that she is the candidate of higher mortgage...
...Lee and Glenn Youngkin, a popular 20-year veteran, were named co-chief executives....
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...Afterwards, I spent three years researching and co-writing a book, Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, with Mayer....
...Ethereum co-founder questions economics of rival Solana Joseph Lubin, co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain struck out last week at fast-growing competitor Solana....
...He will retire later this month as co-manager of the £16.7bn Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, whose stellar long-term record has made him a cult figure among retail investors....
...Stephen Bush. . . Downing Street as an auxiliary minister of state, which doesn’t really work. George ParkerYeah....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...In 1973, with the Roe v....
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...My guest is Susan Glasser of the New Yorker, co-author of an excellent recent history of the Trump Presidency called The Divider....
...Interest rates had been rising internationally and mortgage costs had been forecast to go up for some time....
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