A “For Sale” sign in front of a home in Arlington, Virginia, on Aug. 22, 2023.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesThe average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage dropped 22 basis points to 6.4% Friday, according to Mortgage News Daily. That is the lowest rate since April 2023. The 15-year fixed rate fell to 5.89%, its lowest level since early May 2023.The drop followed a weaker-than-expected monthly employment report, which sent bond yields falling fast. Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury.”Between [Federal Reserve Chair Jerome] Powell’s equivocal openness to ‘multiple cuts’ in 2024…
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Days of Our Lives spoilers for the week of 8-05-24 promise Jack and Chad will make a shocking discovery in Poplar Bluff. Their search for Abigail still seems silly, or at least, based on the flimsiest of evidence. All they have is a video showing a random woman from the back who has a similar hairstyle to Abigail. Still, they have to start somewhere, and even if the woman isn’t Abigail, they might end up rescuing a kidnap victim. It doesn’t make sense that Clyde would lead them toward some other hostage that they don’t know is missing, but anything…
It’s a July for the record books.State Street Global Advisors finds inflows into exchange-traded funds hit $127 billion. Not only was it the best July ever, but the firm’s head of SPDR Americas research notes it is also the second-largest monthly inflow ever.”Part of it is just the market,” Matt Bartolini told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” on Thursday. “We see investors deploy cash from the sidelines. A lot of cash was built up over the years. We started to see investors really make a concerted effort to continue to buy into this rally. We also saw sort of broadening in the…
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.Andrew Kelly | Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersVice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign called out Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday for refusing to agree to a scheduled Sept. 10 debate hosted by ABC News, and instead trying to pressure her to accept an earlier debate on Trump friendly Fox News.Trump on Friday announced on Truth Social that he had agreed with Fox News to do a Sept. 4 debate against Harris, the de facto Democratic presidential nominee, with Fox News moderators and a full audience…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Two weeks ago, I asked you which book I should read next. I was behind on my TBR of new queer books, and you voted on which one I should prioritize. The winner was Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo. Here’s how I pitched it: Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo I cannot resist a queer mystery in space, and this one promises that with an anti-capitalist critique. It claims to be “Knives Out in space with a Parasite twist.” I also enjoy stories set on…
There are just shy of nine million people in London. And as anyone who’s ever tried to get a haircut there will tell you, only a fraction fewer barber shops. As is the case with almost everything in the capital – bars, flats, romantic partners – the sheer depth of variety can make it nigh-on impossible to find a suitable barber shop, which is why we have taken to the streets to track down the cream of the Big Smoke’s crop. From magnificent Mayfair grooming emporiums fit for a king to South London chop shops offering precision skin fades for…
Each month, there are a lot of products featured on Valet. From high-end splurges and luxurious investment pieces to more affordable, everyday items. Which ones were the most popular with you, the reader? We looked over the data and crunched the numbers. Herewith, the ten pieces our readers clicked on and bought the most over the past 31 days. Do any of these ring a bell? Read the original article here
An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersAll doses of Eli Lilly’s highly popular weight loss injection Zepbound and diabetes drug Mounjaro are now available in the U.S., according to an update on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s drug shortage database on Friday. A previous update said some doses of the treatments were still in short supply. Some doses of Mounjaro have been in shortage since as early as 2022, while doses of Zepbound joined the FDA’s shortage list earlier this year following its U.S.…
On the second full weekend of Olympics competition, there’s other TV business as usual with the highly anticipated season finales of HBO’s House of the Dragon and PBS Masterpiece’s Grantchester. A fascinating HBO documentary culls from hours of audio interviews of glamorous film legend Elizabeth Taylor, reflecting on her life and career. House of the DragonSUNDAY: The battle lines are drawn, and loyalties tested, as the Game of Thrones prequel ends its second season with the winds of war stirring up anticipation, dread and foreboding across a divided Westeros. The momentum appears to have shifted in favor of thwarted Queen…
Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesMobile betting powerhouse DraftKings is planning a tax on consumers in states with the highest sports betting tax rates, as the company looks to boost profit.The company announced Thursday that starting next year, it will implement a gaming surcharge on winning bets in states with multiple betting operators and where the tax rate is above 20%. That includes Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont.”We decided that the best course of action is to do what really every other industry [does] — whether it’s hotels, taxis — whatever else you buy generally…
DJ Randall, the influential UK drum’n’bass DJ and producer, has died, Mixmag reports, citing his representatives. He was 54 years old.Born in east London, Randall became a fixture of the UK dance scene in the late 1980s and early ’90s, helping shepherd acid house towards breakbeat, hardcore, and jungle in warehouse venues and on pirate radio. Mixtapes capturing his jungle sets—and his occasional standalone singles—became formative documents of the era, while sets at venues like London’s Blue Note further incubated the dominant underground dance sounds of the ’90s. He founded his own label, Mac2 Recordings, with Cool Hand Flex in…
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s long-awaited ‘VULTURES 2’ has now dropped – here’s what people have to say. The musicians have teamed up for the second instalment of the ‘VULTURES’ series, with the first album dropping in February this year. Two more volumes were scheduled to drop on March 8 and April 5, respectively. However, ‘VULTURES 2’ failed to materialise in March; the rapper went on to push back its release date a number of times, with West even failing to deliver the album after teasing its arrival yesterday (August 2). Now, ‘VULTURES 2’ has finally been released –…
Apple pulled the latest short film in its The Underdogs: OOO (Out of Office) series set in Thailand. The tech giant scrubbed it over complaints about stereotypical portrayals of Thailand and its people in certain scenes. reports that Apple issued an apology to the people of Thailand for the fifth film in its Underdogs series. The ad series features a group of travel weary office workers navigating the world using Apple’s various products.Several viewers posted comments criticizing the film’s use of a sepia filter to make Thailand seem underdeveloped. The comments also called out the costuming and scenery decisions in…
The Realme 13 Pro series is here, and I’ve been using the Realme 13 Pro+ for a couple of weeks. While it’s not a major upgrade over the Realme 12 Pro+ in terms of sheer numbers, there are a couple of hardware changes that make it better to use. And there are also new AI features baked in, which are claimed to improve user experience and the photography prowess of the phones. Just like last year’s 12 Pro+ model, the new Realme 13 Pro+ is also mostly all about the cameras.In our Realme 12 Pro+ review, we concluded that the…
Critic’s Rating: 4.5 / 5.04.5If there is one thing you never want to do, it’s piss off The Serpent Queen. The aptly titled “Judas” episode took all the drama of the royal family and court and threw it into a blender. What we are now seeing is the calm before the storm. (Courtesy of Starz) Because there is no doubt that heads will roll once Catherine finishes mourning for Hercule. Not only does she have the death of her youngest son to contend with, but a complete religious uprising is practically at her front door. However, with a cast of…
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden arrive at the federal court during his trial on criminal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware, on June 5, 2024.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersHunter Biden will be sentenced in his criminal gun case in Delaware on Nov. 13, eight days after the 2024 presidential election, a federal judge said Friday.Hunter Biden, the sole surviving son of President Joe Biden, was convicted in June by a jury in U.S. District Court in Wilmington of three criminal counts related to his purchase and possession of a revolver while being an…
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind is set in Barcelona in 1945, a time when Spain was ruled by dictator Francisco Franco following the Spanish Civil War. At a time when Barcelona was recovering from the traumas of war, Daniel, a book dealer’s son mourning the loss of his mother, finds a strange book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. The Shadow of the Wind by Julián Carax immediately draws Daniel in, and he falls in love with the story. But you what happens when you read a book you really love.…
LAS VEGAS — NASA is not reconsidering plans to select only one company to develop an Artemis lunar rover, despite a setback in another program procuring key elements of the lunar exploration effort as a service. NASA announced in April that it awarded feasibility study contracts to three companies — Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab — for the first phase of its Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Services contract. The one-year contracts, work on which formally started in May, will allow the companies to mature their designs for rovers that will be used by astronauts on later Artemis missions…