According to Redfin, the U.S. housing market is now worth a stone’s throw from $50 trillion: Depedning on the day, that puts the housing market roughly on par with the total value of the U.S. stock market. In the past decade alone the total value of the housing market has more than doubled (from $23 … Read more
Severe convective storms (SCS) are emerging as a major driver of U.S. property insurance costs, with large hail events alone damaging nearly 600,000 homes in 2024, according to an analysis by CoreLogic. SCS weather events, which include damaging hail, tornadoes, straight-line winds and derechos, are becoming a significant driver of insured natural disaster losses across … Read more
A reader asks: Are there any changes we can make today that would reduce the risk or exposure to potential risk if the federal government causes a recession in 2025? I’m trying to determine if I should adjust my 401k allocations to be less equity and more fixed income in case the stock market goes … Read more
Cybersecurity vendors seeking to tap the anticipated demand from critical infrastructure (CI) operators must ensure that their data traffic monitoring solutions for operational technology (OT) systems can detect the actions of active and passive assets and all data traffic types, then decide how best to analyse the data. This is one of the major pieces … Read more
The Bank of England has caught many by surprise by trimming its base rate by 0.25%, bringing it down to 4.5%. This change came after a 7–2 vote by the Monetary Policy Committee, with two members leaning towards an even deeper 0.5% cut. Although the Bank of England strategy to control inflation through higher interest … Read more
