Which Investors Will Get Rich From Anthropic’s IPO?

Rolling coverage of the latet economic and financial news Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. Mortgage borrowers are being warned that borrowing rates are set to rise, as this week’s global bond sell-off ripples through the economy. Credit card, mortgage and auto loan interest rates will rise if bond yields rise, as the lenders seek to preserve loan book margins and manage their risk. All things being equal, you would expect a modest increase in mortgage rates based on what we’ve seen so far. “A 0.1 [percentage point] increase, which is what we’ve seen over the last week, is much less of an increase than when we saw a 0.5 [percentage point] increase in 10 days in March when the Iran war broke out.” 9am BST: Eurozone services PMI report for August 9.30am BST: UK services PMI report for August 9.30am: ONS Business insights and impact on the UK economy 10.30am: Challenger survey of US Job Cuts 3pm BST: US services PMI report for August..

Sir Sadiq Khan is repeating his opposition to a third runway in response to a government consultation.

Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector Private equity companies now own or partly own 11 of the 20 largest providers of fostering and children’s homes in England, as calls to ban “obscene” profit-making in children’s care grow. An investigation by the thinktank Common Wealth found the “big four” independent fostering agencies – which provide almost a quarter of fostering placements in England – have paid out more than £200m from taxpayers to shareholders in interest payments since 2020...