Tim Lucas

Feb 6, 2024 | moneymarketing.co.uk | Tim Lucas |Michelle Hoskin

It continues to look likely that US interest rates have peaked. We expect UK interest rates to follow suit and for inexpensive, economically sensitive companies to continue to benefit from this. As an investor, predicting the precise time when sentiment turns can be difficult, but there is a good chance this happened with the release of October’s US inflation data. After many months of rising bond yields and falling stock valuations, US consumer-price data came in marginally lower than expected.

Dec 30, 2023 | hk-now.com | Joanne Nesti |Tim Lucas

By Tim Lucas(December 30, 2023) — As many of you know, our school district is in the midst of planning significant infrastructure maintenance and improvements to the school buildings and campuses. The purpose is to bring our school facilities up to current safety and accessibility standards and to prepare them for our students into the future.

Sep 18, 2023 | mortgageresearch.com | Tim Lucas

According to our research, FHA loan limits could increase 3.9%, from $472,030 in 2023 to $490,425 in 2024. Each year, FHA loan limits are updated, closely following conventional loan limit changes established by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. FHFA offers a detailed methodology for conventional/conforming loan limit changes. Looking at these calculations, we can get a preliminary idea about what might happen to FHA loan limits in 2024.

Sep 11, 2023 | phys.org | Tim Lucas

For much of the last century, many cities across the United States and Canada burned their trash and waste in municipal incinerators. Most of these facilities were closed by the early 1970s due to concerns about the pollution they added to the air, but a new Duke University study finds that their legacy of contamination could live on in urban soils.

May 12, 2023 | wraltechwire.com | Tim Lucas

DURHAM — Researchers at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering are co-leading a new National Science Foundation-funded project that aims to boost economic development and climate resilience in coastal North Carolina through nature-based scientific and technological innovations.