Annual rent increases for houses have hit multi-year lows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, suggesting a relentless stretch of rising rents may have peaked, a new report has found. Renters are still feeling the pinch from record high prices but the data in Domain’s Rent Report revealed the lowest September quarter growth rate…
People walk on a pedestrian bridge displaying the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indexes on January 02, 2024 in Shanghai, China. Hugo Hu | Getty Images That’s because these funds mostly invest in Chinese equities that trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange or U.S. exchange-listed companies that are headquartered or incorporated in China. Mainland Chinese markets,…
Georgia’s president has refused to sign into law a bill aimed at severely curtailing LGBTQ+ rights, weeks after the controversial legislation was passed by the country’s parliament. Last month Georgia’s parliament was heavily criticised after it approved the legislation, which sets out sweeping bans on same-sex marriages, adoptions by same-sex couples and curbs on gender-affirming…
The Labour peer Waheed Alli is under investigation by the Lords’ commissioner over “alleged non-registration of interests”, leading to a possible finding of breach of the members’ code of conduct. According to an update published on parliament’s website on Wednesday, Lord Alli is being investigated by the Lords’ commissioner for “alleged non-registration of interests leading…
Spain logged a record 21.8 million international visitors this summer, official data has revealed, during a period when anti-tourism protests also took place across the country. The figure is a 7.3% rise on 2023, the national statistics institute (INE) said. Spain is the world’s second most popular tourist destination after France and in July received…
Tesla missed expectations for third-quarter deliveries on Wednesday, hurt by stiff competition from rivals in China and Europe, sending shares of the world’s most valuable automaker down 3%. The electric vehicles maker handed over 462,890 vehicles in the three months to 30 September up 6.4% from the preceding quarter. Wall Street on average had expected…
Private sector hiring picked up in September, indicating the labor market is holding its ground despite some signs of weakness, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Wednesday. Companies added 143,000 jobs for the month, an acceleration from the upwardly revised 103,000 in August and better than the 128,000 consensus forecast from economists polled by Dow Jones.…
British Jews are adjusting to a “new reality” of heightened fear and high levels of antisemitism as the war in the Middle East escalates, campaigners have said. The warning comes as data shows more than 5,500 antisemitic incidents were recorded in the UK in the year between 7 October 2023 and 30 September 2024. The…
Amazon confirmed on Tuesday the removal of a memoir from its site that purports to tell the story of an abusive relationship between the late actor and model Kim Porter and her longtime partner, the hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. Porter and Combs’s children denounced the book – titled Kim’s Lost Words: A journey for…
A former Post Office finance chief has said the company’s chief executive, Nick Read, prefers to work with teams of “younger, deferential males”, with very few senior roles held by female colleagues. Alisdair Cameron, who officially left the company in June after a year of sick leave, provided his view on the culture at the…
