U.S. long-term mortgage rates were little changed this week. The key 30-year, fixed-rate loan hovered around an average 3.8% for the third straight week. Before leveling off, rates marked six straight weeks of declines putting them at historically low levels during this spring’s homebuying season. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on […]
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Image copyright Christie Hospital Image caption The Christie began treating patients in the NHS’s first PBT centre in December A businessman and philanthropist has donated £4.5m to The Christie cancer hospital in Manchester. The money will support the hospital’s high-energy proton beam therapy (PBT) clinical trial for patients with mouth and throat cancer. Ian Taylor,
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Monsoon Accessorize is calling on landlords to approve rent reductions on some of its 258 leased stores as part of a restructuring of the troubled High Street chain. The two chains operate under separate names and are asking for rent cuts on 135 stores after a period of “difficult” trading. To win support from landlords,
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Defending champion Marin Cilic, former winner Grigor Dimitrov and 2018 Wimbledon finalist Kevin Anderson all lost at the Queen’s Club grass-court tournament on Thursday. Cilic and Anderson were knocked out in the second round, while Dimitrov didn’t make it past the first round having waited four days to play his opening match. Diego Schwartzman of
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The genesis of the dispute between the N.R.A. and Mr. North is a related legal battle between the N.R.A. and its most prominent contractor, the Oklahoma-based advertising firm Ackerman McQueen, which employed Mr. North. The N.R.A. has sued Ackerman, claiming it withheld documents and records from the gun group, and some officials have suggested the
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Image copyright Google Image caption Residents were left waiting to go to the toilet for an hour at Mariners Park Care Home A care home where residents had to “bawl and shout” for help has blamed understaffing caused by “Brexit uncertainties” and economic austerity. Mariners Park Care Home in Wallasey has been rated as “Requiring
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Shares of work messaging platform Slack are expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “WORK.” The San Francisco company is set to start trading Thursday in what’s known as a direct listing. Unlike a traditional initial public offering, under a direct listing a company doesn’t hire underwriters or sell
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Juan Martin del Potro’s team says the Argentine player will undergo surgery for a fractured kneecap. The injury forced the 12th-ranked Del Potro to withdraw from the Queen’s Club grass-court event on Wednesday. Del Potro beat Denis Shapovalov 7-5, 6-4 in the first round, but finished the match with pain and swelling in his right
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ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, holding a rare meeting with international journalists, said on Thursday that he expected to resolve disagreements with the United States, particularly his purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system, in a one-on-one meeting with President Trump at the end of the month. The two leaders are expected
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An early surge on the stock market Thursday put the S&P 500 index on track for another record high and erased the market’s losses from a brutal sell-off in May. The S&P 500 rose 1% as of 10 a.m. Eastern time and was slightly above the record close it reached April 30. The index has
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