Affordability is still an issue, mortgage rates will remain high, and homes are sitting on the market longer. It all adds up to a stalled 2023 for real estate.

Market turmoil increases dangers in highly-leveraged products

Plus, updates on one embarrassed FTX bull

Moscow demands the U.S. accept that Russia keeps the Ukrainian territories it has occupied

A Justice Department official overseeing FTX’s bankruptcy said the crypto platform’s collapse is likely the ‘fastest big corporate failure in American history’

Welsh financial adviser hit with £2.4mn penalty for ‘woeful’ guidance to quit defined benefit schemes

Volatility in prices has taken the sheen off the metal as a safe-haven asset — though the rich still like their jewellery

The continent has stockpiled natural gas, easing worries of shortages and prices, but now they are climbing again

Countries have been slow to sign the contracts companies need to boost supply to Kyiv and allies’ own readiness

Dividend stocks are poised to notch an impressive victory this year. The Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend DJDVP –0.23% index is ahead 5.5%, cruising past the S&P 500 SPX –0.12% index, down 14.4% in total returns. Even more impressive, dividend stocks have left the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index COMP –0.18% , down 26.7%, in the dust.