Two of the world’s largest auto manufacturers are making big industrial real estate moves in Austin and San Antonio. A Tesla factory in California Tesla has reportedly signed a lease for greater Austin’s largest speculative industrial building just as Toyota plots a $3.6B expansion of its San Antonio manufacturing plant. Tesla is leasing a 682K […]
When you drive through neighborhoods in the U.S., you might not expect that a number of those homes are empty. In fact, according to a new study from LendingTree, 14.5 million U.S. homes — roughly 1 in 10 nationwide — are unoccupied. But, LendingTree said, that doesn’t always mean availability. It said that some empty […]
The old question in B2B logistics was simple: How fast can the shipment get there? The new question is more complicated. And it centers on what the shipment can tell a business while it is moving. Across freight markets, delivery mechanisms are becoming data mechanisms. Air cargo, rail, ocean shipping and drones each create a […]
Munis were cheaper in spots on Wednesday, outperforming U.S. Treasuries. Equities ended down. Processing Content Bond markets started the day weaker, but spiking oil prices, a result of the U.S. Treasury revoking Iran’s authorization to sell oilrevoking Iran’s authorization to sell oil after Iran attacked ships in the Strait of Hormuz, sent UST yields even […]
The White House is getting a permanent helipad installed on the South Lawn. President Donald Trump confirmed to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that the White House is getting a granite helipad paid for by Sikorsky Aircraft — a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin — to support the new fleet of helicopters used as […]
Oracle (ORCL 1.56%) was founded as a software company in 1977, before transitioning first to cloud computing and later to artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. It operates some of the fastest and most cost-efficient AI data centers in the world, and its order backlog suggests demand is through the roof. Nevertheless, Oracle stock plummeted by 25% […]
What exactly is an emerging market? You can debate all sorts of measures of economic development and levels of income as the cut-off point, but as far as the financial world is concerned, what matters most is whether the stock market is part of the MSCI Emerging Markets (EM) index or not. The AI boom […]
Leah Zlatkin, a licensed mortgage broker at LowestRates.ca in Ontario, told Canadian Mortgage Professional earlier this year that “there’s no clear signal that rates are heading materially lower, and in some cases we’re already seeing lenders adjust pricing upward.” Spending pulls back as energy costs bite Consumer spending intentions edged down in Q2 2026, the CSCE […]
British Columbia Premier David Eby says a joint federal-provincial plan to convert unsold condominiums into affordable housing would be like buying something “on liquidation.”
Gold prices steady with Iran risks, Fed minutes in focus