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07.10.26 - 10:12
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UK house prices flatline as rising mortgage costs weigh on market (The Guardian)
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Average cost of home in September was £298,441, says Lloyds – about the same as year earlier and in AugustBusiness live – latest updatesUK house prices flatlined in September, according to a leading index, as rising mortgage costs started to weigh on the market.The average cost of a home last month was £298,441, roughly the same as it was a year earlier and in the previous month, according to the tracker from Lloyds previously known as the Halifax HPI. Continue reading......
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07.10.26 - 09:24
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UK Lloyds House Prices Stagnate (AFX)
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LONDON (dpa-AFX) - UK house prices remained unchanged in September after falling for two straight months amid higher interest rate expectations, monthly data published by Lloyds Banking Group show......
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06.10.26 - 22:45
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The $1 Million Tanker Was Just The Start: Every Crude Freight Index Hits Record High As Hormuz "Works" Too Well (ZeroHedge)
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The $1 Million Tanker Was Just The Start: Every Crude Freight Index Hits Record High As Hormuz "Works" Too Well
Just when we thought crude tanker rates couldn't go any higher, they did - again.
A week ago, a record million dollars a day charter for a supertanker was the punchline. Now it's the floor: the Baltic Exchange's TD3C, the benchmark Saudi Arabia-to-China VLCC route, hit yet another all-time high of $1.33 million per day on Monday, up 10% on the week and 21 times where it was a year ago!
But the real fireworks are elsewhere. As Lloyd's List's Greg Miller writes, the tanker market's "cascade" effect has gone into overdrive, with record VLCC strength spilling into suezmaxes, and suezmax demand in turn dragging up aframaxes:
Crude tanker markets hit a tipping point in mid-September, surging to a new level as more crude exited the Strait of Hormuz. Over the past three days, rates crossed another tipping point, spiking even higher due to the lagged global 'cascade...
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03.10.26 - 10:18
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UK urged to act as Polymarket takes bets on whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail (The Guardian)
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Revelation comes amid mounting concern over online prediction market's effects on integrity of financial systemUK authorities are being urged to intervene after it emerged that the online prediction market Polymarket has been taking thousands of dollars worth of bets over whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail.Polymarket – the US-owned company which holds bets on anything from football matches, to the existence of aliens, to when a bomb drops on a city – has allowed users to take $77,507 (£58,530) worth of positions on whether the world's biggest banks will go under by the end of this year. Continue reading......
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25.09.26 - 14:54
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The UK’s First Tokenized Deposit Transfers: What You Need to Know (24/7 Wall St.)
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Lloyds (NYSE:LYG), NatWest (NYSE:NWG), Barclays (NYSE:BCS), and HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) have made a significant breakthrough in the UK banking sector by successfully completing the first-ever interbank transactions using tokenized deposits. UK Finance announced this on September 24, 2026, and it included two live remortgage payments and a simulated online purchase. Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays Moved Remortgage […]...
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14.09.26 - 16:03
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Best′s Market Segment Report: Competition Moderates US Surplus Lines Premium Growth, But Customization Solidifies Market′s Value (Business Wire)
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OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#insurance--The U.S. surplus lines market, including aggregated premiums written by Lloyd's syndicates and non-Lloyd's alien insurers, achieved an eighth consecutive year of double-digit growth, although the 10.4% year-over-year (YoY) growth reflected continued premium growth moderation that has been evident in the market over the past three years, according to a new AM Best report.
In addition, U.S. domestic surplus lines insurers generated $105.9 billion in direct premium written of the total surplus lines market premium of $143.2 billion in 2025, representing a YoY increase of 8.9%, according to the Best's Market Segment Report, titled, “US Surplus Lines Market: Competition Moderates Premium Growth, But Customization Solidifies the Market's Value,” While this growth level is noteworthy, the increase ended a seven-year run of double digit premium growth for U.S. insurers.
The report also cites the role of tailored coverage in continuing meet the needs of complex, ...
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11.09.26 - 16:21
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AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Lloyd′s Syndicate 33 (Business Wire)
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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A+ (Superior) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “aa-” (Superior) of Lloyd's Syndicate 33 (Syndicate 33) (United Kingdom), which is managed by Hiscox Syndicates Ltd. The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.The Lloyd's market rating is the floor for all syndicate ratings, reflecting Lloyd's chain of security, and, in particular, the role of the Central Fund, which partially mutualises capital at the market level. The ratings of Syndicate 33 reflect the balance sheet strength of the Lloyd's market, which AM Best assesses as very strong, as well as the market's strong operating performance, very favourable business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management.For the 2025 year of account, Syndicate 33's capacity was GBP 1.7 billion (2024: GBP 1.7 billion). Approximately 70% of Syndicate 33's capital is provided by Hiscox Dedicated Corporate Member Limited, the ultimate parent of Hiscox Ltd. ...
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