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Commercial Trust quarterly index – Q2 2026The UK buy to let market presented a mixed picture in Q2 2026. Landlords made fewer purchase mortgage applications through Commercial Trust, but those who did apply requested larger loans.There were also major changes in where landlords were buying. Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East both increased their share of purchase applications compared with a year earlier, while the East of England declined.Commercial Trust’s latest figures suggest landlords are not simply entering or leaving the market. Instead, they appear to be buying more carefully, reviewing existing finance and responding to very different…

In 2026, the South Korean stock market experienced an extreme reversal from a “mad bull” to a “bear market rout.” The KOSPI index surged wildly at the start of the year, then plummeted sharply after hitting an all-time high in June, and by July 16, it had fallen 25% from its June peak. A large number of retail investors chased high returns using margin trading and leveraged ETFs, only to face forced liquidations during the sharp downturn. In just two and a half months, the total value of forced liquidations reached 2.3 trillion won. Office workers who lost their wedding…

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Wizards of the Coast has released the official first look at the Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek set, and the chase at the very top is one we haven’t seen from the game before: Headliner cards hand-signed by the actors who originally played the characters. The set beams onto tabletops worldwide on November 13th. Seven Star Trek actors individually signed the set’s Headliner cards, which Wizards says gives players “a chance to bring a piece of galactic history to their collections.” There are approximately 250 copies of each signed card, each one a portrait set against a cosmic background.…

Multistrategy hedge fund jobs have never been easy, but as interest rates stay high and funds struggle to consistently achieve Ken Griffin’s baseline viable performance of “returns equivalent to the risk free cost of capital, plus 4%,” the difficulty level is rising. Funds are responding in two ways: amplifying the assets under management (AUM) for a small pool of top performers; cutting costs for the rest. 💥Follow us on WhatsApp for news alerts.💥Shrunken multistrategy hedge fund, Paloma Asset Management is going for the first approach.Bloomberg reports that Paloma has decided to halve its pods from a peak of 20 to a…

Over the past week or so, we have all found ourselves watching developments in the Middle East again. Renewed tensions involving the USA and Iran have inevitably prompted questions about whether we are about to experience another period of higher funding costs, mortgage repricing and increased market uncertainty, just as we did earlier this year. If that sounds familiar, it is because we have already been through this cycle once in 2026. The difference now is that advisers, lenders and landlords have already experienced it, and the more interesting question is not whether volatility will return, but whether…

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Walking through parched London parks last weekend my thoughts quickly turned to water shortages and the knock-on effects. Britain ought to have fewer leaky pipes and better storage infrastructure – if that was the case we probably had enough rain in winter to ride out this sort of dry spell. Alas, woeful management of water resources leaves southern England desperate for rain and expensively cultivated gardens shrivelling; yet there are many places in the world where droughts are even scarier.Along with brutal temperatures, the super El Niño climate event gathering impetus for 2026 and 2027 is likely to disrupt harvests.…

A reduction in Tax Collected at Source (TCS) may encourage Indians to holiday abroad but managing travel funds is the biggest concern of international travellers, according to a new survey by Wise, a money transfer company.   The survey found that hidden foreign exchange charges, confusing conversion rates and uncertainty over the actual cost of spending abroad are causing more anxiety than many traditional travel hassles.   The findings come from Wise’s Passport & Paisa: India Travel Money Report 2026, based on a survey of more than 1,050 Indian international travellers across age groups. The respondents were…

After years of tax changes, higher mortgage rates and increasing regulation, many expected a substantial number of landlords to sell up. The latest figures from UK Finance, the banking and lending trade body, suggest the picture is far more nuanced. During the first three months of 2026, more than 58,000 buy-to-let loans were advanced across the UK, with the total value of lending rising 7% to £10.8 billion. At the same time, rental yields improved, arrears fell, and portfolio lending continued to grow. Looking beyond the headline increase in lending, however, five trends stand out. 1. Landlords are refinancing rather…