Housing permits near cycle lows even as housing starts beat estimates

GB Bank has been added to Mortgage Brain’s Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain. The addition will provide brokers with access to its buy-to-let (BTL) products through the technology provider’s product sourcing platform and its BTL and bridging criteria. GB Bank offers solutions across residential, and semi-commercial property investments. Mortgage Brain chief commercial officer Neil Wyatt…

Shares of Palantir Technologies (PLTR 1.57%) got pummeled during the first six months of 2026, with shares plunging 34%, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. That’s a far cry from the 10% gains of the S&P 500. Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks have been taking a breather over the past year as investors…

Business Published: Saturday, July 18, 2026, 9:25 [IST] In the US stock market yesterday, Apple briefly overtook Nvidia on Friday, July 17, as the semiconductor sector sold off. Apple ended Friday’s trading session as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, crossing past Nvidia for the first time since April 2025, because a sharp selloff…

(RTTNews) – Vinci SA (VCISY, VCISF, DG.PA), a French concessions and construction company, Friday reported that its subsidiary VINCI Airports recorded lower passenger traffic in the month of June and second quarter, due to geopolitical disruptions that affected certain airports. Meanwhile, first-half traffic was flat, compared to lat year. Commercial movements at VINCI Airports were…

Germany’s fragile coalition government has announced a major package of economic reforms aimed at kick-starting the country’s chronic low growth. The long-awaited measures, announced earlier this month by chancellor Friedrich Merz, include tax cuts, greater labour-market flexibility and a broad easing of bureaucratic red tape – and follow separate but related pension reforms, announced a…