Wall Street’s biggest banks deliver blowout second-quarter results
Five banking giants beat expectations, but mortgage brokers face a murkier rate outlook

Five banking giants beat expectations, but mortgage brokers face a murkier rate outlook

Rural small towns today might be shaped by Dollar General stores and rusty industrial plants, but many across the US were once lively brick-paved main streets where domestic manufacturing and tight-knit communities flourished. Some of America’s small towns have grown in recent years, with young people moving in, while others that prospered a century ago…
Shares of Naukri-parent Info Edge sharply surged another 5% on Wednesday, extending a 19% rally in just two days after the company released its quarterly business update for Q1 FY27, with brokerages issuing bullish calls for the stock. The company’s shares jumped to Rs 1,217.80 apiece on the NSE on Wednesday, the highest level seen…
India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $7.26 billion to $674.19 billion in the week ended July 3, driven by an increase in foreign currency assets (FCAs) and gold reserves, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday. FCAs, the largest component of the reserves, increased by $4.51…
As the dust settles on one of the biggest Irish agency deals in years, Knight Frank Ireland is looking at expansion. Real estate adviser Knight Frank officially became part of Irish residential giant Sherry FitzGerald in mid-February after the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission gave it the green light for a deal to buy HT…
Investment in the UK build-to-rent sector reached £3bn during the first half of 2026, marking the second-strongest start to a year on record, according to figures from JLL. The total represented a 28% increase compared to the same period in 2025 and stood 6% above the five-year average. It was only the second time investment…
On July 1, several media outlets reported that Meta Platforms (META +6.16%) was forming a new business unit, internally dubbed “Meta Compute”, to sell its excess AI cloud capacity to third-party customers. Meta will reportedly sell both its raw GPU computing capacity and remote access to its infrastructure to companies so they can run their…