Fresh Shocks, Same Strategy: Unfazed Retail Investors Keep Hitting ‘Buy’ - WSJ

In an era when pickup trucks and SUVs vastly outsell regular cars, off-road capability is one of the biggest selling points. Off-roading is cool, and non-cars are inherently more rugged than ordinary sedans, hatchbacks, and wagons. So they should always be better at this kind of thing, right? That’s the assumption Ram hoped visitors to the 2026 Oklahoma State Fair would make. The Stellantis truck brand set up a short course to show off the capabilities of its latest pickups, but it got upstaged by something nearly a century old that isn’t even a truck. As shown in this video posted to YouTube by Davis Auto Ranch, someone let the owner of a 1928 Ford Model A have a go. And I’m not talking about a Model A body attached to some other chassis, Mad Max-style. It looks stock, and it aced the course designed for modern pickups.

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A major Ontario condo construction lender says it won’t relax its loan criteria for developers despite a sharp drop in projects and industry calls for more support. In the fourth year of the real estate downturn, developers have been shelving or postponing condo projects because mom-and-pop investors are no longer interested in buying preconstruction units. Individual investors used to account for the vast majority of preconstruction condo purchases in the Toronto region. The lack of investors means that developers cannot sell the amount of units required to qualify for construction financing. Lenders typically require 70 per cent of a project’s units be sold before they will provide the developer with financing to launch construction. “The 70 per cent remains a good metric,” said Kevin VanKampen, head of business banking with Meridian Credit Union, the province’s largest credit union that has been providing condo developers with loans for at least two decades. With condo prices falling, Mr.

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