Over-80s turn to annuities as rates climb
Growing interest comes amid a rise in larger annuity purchases
AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’
Report finds some chatbots ignored upcoming tax changes and hallucinated rules
Thirty years of buy-to-let: does it have a future?
Rents and tenant demand are rising, but landlords are under increasing pressure
Housebuilders aren’t the only ones who benefit from ‘Help to Buy’
A new equity loan scheme could help people get on the property ladder, though the government might struggle to afford it
US homebuilders under pressure from rising rates
Developers worry elevated borrowing costs and broader affordability woes will deter buyers
FEDS Paper: Optimal Pooling in Taylor Rule Estimation with Multiple-Horizon Forecast Panels
Edward Herbst and Karen PageMultiple-horizon forecast panels are increasingly used to infer perceived monetary policy rules, but inference depends on how coefficients are pooled across forecasters, dates, and horizons. We treat this pooling structure as the object of inference.
FEDS Paper: Premiums or Peril
Erik Heitfield, Mallick Hossain, and Katie MerrittUsing fine-grained data on 465,000 Florida home sales over twelve years and semiparametric machine learning methods, we examine how home prices respond to weather-related risk factors.
IFDP Paper: Estimating Yield Impacts of Treasury Demand and Supply Changes
Daniel Beltran and Canlin LiWe develop a rich demand system framework to quantify the yield effects of shifts in U.S. Treasury supply and demand. Our model captures time-varying holdings shares and estimates sectoral demand elasticities using instrumental variables.
Minutes of the Transaction and Post-trade Reporting Harmonisation Taskforce - July 2026
The Transaction and Post-trade Reporting Harmonisation Taskforce, through its three working groups, will help inform the design of the Bank and FCA’s long-term approach to harmonising UK MiFIR, UK EMIR and UK SFTR reporting requirements
Energy drives 16.4% YoY jump in industrial turnover for July
Greece’s industrial turnover recorded another strong rise of 16.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) in July, from 19.6 percent in June, according to data released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on Friday.
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