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Existing-home sales rose 1.5% in September from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.99 million, according to the NAR.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

To calm the rate of price rises, central banks, including the Bank of England, are expected to hike interest rates in the coming months.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Markets are pricing in an additional 160 basis points of Fed rate hiking over the next 12 months, but BlackRock sees that move as overdone.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Alexander disease can interfere with movement, thinking, and automatic bodily functions such as breathing and heart rate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

With all his money, he bought a dozen bundles of tangled wool at twice the going rate from a young couple—both refugees of a border war.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Firms that have already been struggling are bracing for conditions to get even worse with interest rates climbing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

People can still use some social media platforms, but a lack of electricity in large parts of the country, high costs and low literacy rates remain major barriers.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Yet as the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in 2022 to fight inflation, tech stocks started charging higher following OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in November 2022, as the below chart shows.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Further increases in mortgage rates in recent weeks mean fewer buyers can qualify to purchase a home,” Yun said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Digging deeper, he called S&P and asked what happened to default rates if real estate prices fell.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute rated ChatGPT for Teens an “Unacceptable Risk” for children under 18 in a study published Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Year: 2014 Compiled by: Forrest Wickman Of note: Each remix was rated on a scale of “surfborts.”

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

The African Peer Review Mechanism, the institution behind AfCRA, says 23 countries on the continent are not rated at all by the traditional agencies.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The unannounced inspection from about a year before her arrest had rated areas including care, learning and the setting as "very good", the second-highest level in the quality scale.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Not sex, even—I keep it rated Teen for the kids out there—just love.”

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

He began his second term as president with an approval rating of just over 50%, according to polling resource website Silver Bulletin, but it quickly fell into the 40s.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

“In the current environment, we find it increasingly difficult to justify an outperform rating on incumbent operators, even at discounted prices, as volatility seem inevitable,” Yoon wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Public IB maintains an overweight rating on Malaysian plantations, pegging Sarawak Plantation and TA Ann as top picks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

AlphaValue maintains its sell rating and 35.80 euro target price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“We were actually summoned to the rating agency and told, ‘You guys just don’t get it,’” says Gertner.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis