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Real and RE/MAX Shareholders Approve Merger, Forming Real RE/MAX Group
Real and RE/MAX shareholders approved the acquisition, and closing is expected in about two weeks pending a British Colu...
UWM's $603 Million Derivatives Loss Raises Questions Over Hedging and Capital Strategy
A $27.5 billion rate position lost $603 million in Q2, cutting UWM's book equity 38%, as analysts ask why the hedge rema...
Reverse Mortgage Industry Asks CFPB for Dollar-Based Loan Disclosures
NRMLA wants the CFPB to replace percentage-based TALC tables with dollar illustrations and merge TILA and HECM disclosur...
Iran Floats a 15,000-Kilometer Missile — and the Real Question Is Who Would Help Build It
A 15,000-kilometer Iranian missile would put all of the US in range. The real question is whether Russia and North Korea...
Prologis IBI at 59.3: U.S. Logistics Real Estate Moves Into Growth Mode
Q2 2026 net absorption of 66 million square feet was the strongest since 2022, while Prologis says supply is tightening ...
FTR Trucking Conditions Index Slips to 17.4 in June but Stays Strong for Carriers
FTR's June TCI dipped from May's record 20.4 to 17.4 as lower diesel partly offset softer rate growth; contract rates ar...
Syria Reclaims Oil and Port Assets as Western and Gulf Deals Erode Russia's Role
Damascus has retaken key oil and gas fields, replaced Russia's Tartous port deal with DP World and opened onshore and of...
Hormuz Strikes and Saudi Refinery Drones Put Oil Chokepoints Under Pressure
Iran's attack on ADNOC-linked tankers and fresh Houthi drones on Saudi Aramco show the war is escalating across the Gulf...
Hormuz Risk Premium Returns as Weak Demand Caps Oil's Weekly Rebound
WTI is up more than 5% this week after stalled U.S.-Iran talks restored the Strait of Hormuz risk premium, but a huge U....
Truckload Rates Hold Higher Floor in July as Capacity Trumps Softer Freight Volumes
DAT's July index shows van and reefer contract rates gaining while loads fell, and analyst Dean Croke sees capacity, not...
Shipper Groups Ask STB to Reject Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern Merger Application
Chemical and fertilizer shippers say Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern have not shown their proposed rail merger meets ...
US Rail Carloads Rise 1.8%, Intermodal Up 4.1% in Week Ending Aug. 8
AAR data show grain and metals gains offset coal and auto declines, while intermodal marks its third straight weekly imp...
Long-Duration Battery Startups Raise $1.3B as Data Centers Seek 24/7 Clean Power
Form Energy’s $750 million round and Antora Energy’s $550 million raise put iron-air and carbon-block storage at the cen...
Beyond Madrid and Barcelona: Spain's Most Beautiful Places, Per Forbes Travel Guide
Forbes Travel Guide's selection favors nature, history and limited access over mass tourism, from Asturias to the volcan...
French Court Clears Defense and End-of-Life Laws, Sends Child Social Media Rules Back
The Constitutional Council has cleared major parts of the French government's agenda, including a doubled military budge...
Asunción Turns to an 11-Year Urban Manual to Rebuild Its Historic Core by 2037
A new design code, a US$105m World Bank programme and an awarded first construction phase aim to repopulate Paraguay's c...
Tether's CEO Denies Plans for a Tether Blockchain as Stablechain Rivals Emerge
Tether's CEO denies the company is building its own blockchain, challenging a study that grouped it with Stripe and Circ...
Birkenstock Investor L Catterton Sells $1 Billion Stake After 12% Stock Surge
L Catterton placed 25.52 million Birkenstock shares at $39.35, a 4% discount to Thursday's close. Birkenstock itself bou...
US 30-Year Treasury Yield Hits 25-Year High as Deficit Financing Costs Mount
A 30-year auction priced at 5.216% and a 10-year sale at 4.683% show investors demanding more for US debt as July's defi...
Berkshire Hathaway Lifts Alphabet Stake 83%, Halting 14-Quarter Stock Sell-Off
The disclosure makes Alphabet Berkshire's third-largest stock at $37.8 billion, as Greg Abel begins deploying the cash p...
Google Edges Past Naver in Korean Mobile Users as AI Search Shifts the Web
For the first time, Google's mobile app outranked Naver by monthly active users in South Korea, while ChatGPT's rise poi...
Trump Promises to Declare Strait of Hormuz US Territory 'Soon' After Defeating Iran
Donald Trump said Washington would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory, escalating a war in which Iran alread...
China's 49th Naval Taskforce Heads to Gulf of Aden for Escort Mission
Three PLAN ships led by the destroyer Kunming depart Sanya to relieve the 48th escort taskforce off Somalia, extending a...
TOUCHBeauty Japan Opens Instagram Giveaway for LIFT2 Multi-Esthetic Device
The Tokyo beauty-device maker will give three winners a LIFT2 facial device, priced at ¥27,280, in an Instagram campaign...
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko on Gundam's 20th Anniversary: THE ORIGIN, SEED and Tezuka's Influence
The veteran Gundam character designer reflects on the parallel rise of Gundam THE ORIGIN and SEED, the IP business aroun...
Trump Memo Pushes Steam Carrier Reversal and Foreign-Owned US Yards
A 13 August memorandum orders a 60-day plan to swap CVN-81's EMALS for steam systems, expands foreign-owned US yard arra...
Rheinmetall Demonstrates Truck-Launched FV-014 Loitering Munition in Germany
The July 2026 Cochstedt test paired a 100km loitering munition with an 18-cell ISO-container launcher, formalising the h...
Hero-120 Loitering Munition Passes US Army Acceptance Tests for LUS Programme
UVision and Rheinmetall say the Hero-120 met every acceptance requirement in August 2026 tests under the US Army's Letha...
Moscow Exchange Outlines Two-Year Path Toward Near 24/7 Trading
MOEX will first end weekend maintenance halts, then gradually align weekend and weekday sessions, with the full transiti...
Russian Stocks Flat as Oil Rally Offsets Ukraine War Gloom; HeadHunter Jumps on Dividend
MOEX and RTS barely moved on Aug. 14 as higher Brent and HeadHunter's dividend news competed with geopolitical drift; an...