Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Forty years ago, I would have been roughly at the age at which the average woman could expect their first child … except, of course, I wasn’t even swimming around back then. Things have changed since then. I can swim, but I can […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. How many times have you heard it said that if Millennials stopped buying avocado toast they’d be able to afford property? There have been endless hot takes in the media about how Millennials need to pull their fingers out, budget in a more […]

House prices in Germany declined in the second quarter at the fastest pace since 2000, adding further evidence to the adverse impact of rising interest rates on the real estate market in the biggest euro area economy. Prices of residential property decreased by an average 9.9 percent year-on-year, the statistical office Destatis said Friday. This was the biggest annual fall […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A surge in immigration this year has rescued the Australian economy from recession, it has helped alleviate a debilitating shortage of workers and also mitigate the damage wreaked by slow consumer spending on company profits. Strong immigration offers a handy sugar hit for […]

While the Commerce Department released a report on Tuesday showing a much sharper than expected pullback in U.S. housing starts in the month of August, the report also showed a much bigger than expected surge in U.S. building permits. The report said housing starts plunged by 11.3 percent to an annual rate of 1.283 million in August after jumping by […]

Homebuilder confidence in the U.S. has unexpectedly deteriorated in the month of September, according to a report released by the National Association of Home Builders on Monday. The report said the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index slumped to 45 in September after tumbling to 50 in August. Economists had expected the index to come in unchanged. The housing market index […]

Kingfisher PLC (KGF.L) reported that its first half pretax-profit declined to 317 million pounds from 474 million pounds, last year, reflecting lower operating profit, including the impact of impairments reflecting revised future projections. Earnings per share was 12.2 pence compared to 18.3 pence. Adjusted pretax profit declined to 336 million pounds from 472 million pounds, last year, reflecting lower retail […]

A report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Friday showed a substantial turnaround by New York manufacturing activity in the month of September. The New York Fed said its general business conditions index surged to a positive 1.9 in September from a negative 19.0 in August, with a positive reading indicating growth in regional manufacturing activity. […]

The UK economy contracted in June on weaker out-turns in the services and industrial sectors, suggesting that the region is heading for a mild recession in the second half of the year. Real gross domestic product fell 0.5 percent in July, offsetting June’s 0.5 percent increase, the Office for National Statistics reported Wednesday. The latest figure was also worse than […]

China’s consumer price inflation is set to rebound further over the coming months as the economy is set to recover moderately driven by policy measures, Capital Economics’ economists said. Official data released over the weekend showed that consumer prices climbed 0.1 percent annually in August, reversing a 0.3 percent drop in July, which was the first decline since February 2021. […]