{"slug": "news-of-the-day-return-to-office-report-ends-equity-investors-mortgage-size-ai", "title": "News of the day: Return to office report ends, equity investors, mortgage size regrets, AI frenzy risks, protecting CPP and more", "summary": "The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI frenzy adds risks to an already vulnerable global economy, while a new report shows 37% of recent first-time buyers regret their mortgage size. Meanwhile, Toronto's Strategic Regional Research Alliance is ending its tracking of return-to-office rates, and equity investors are advised to be cautious amid bond market signals.", "body_md": "# News of the day: Return to office report ends, equity investors, mortgage size regrets, AI frenzy risks, protecting CPP and more\n\nIt's Monday, June 29. Here are the top stories we're following today.\n\n**Why tracking the return to the office is no longer a thing in Toronto**\n\nAbout half a decade and a global pandemic later, the Strategic Regional Research Alliance is looking to finally pull the plug on tracking whether people are occupying Toronto offices.\n\n**Why equity investors may need to think about taking their foot off the gas**\n\nThe bond market is sending increasingly cautionary signals that suggest a more challenging road ahead, writes Martin Pelletier.\n\n**37% of recent first-time buyers regret the size of mortgage they took on, says new report**\n\nFive years after homebuying activity hit unprecedented heights amid record-low, pandemic-era interest rates, the ongoing mortgage renewal wave is putting borrowers managing higher payments under pressure, according to a recent report from Mortgage Professionals Canada.\n\n**AI frenzy adds to risks facing already vulnerable global economy, warns BIS**\n\nThe optimism surrounding artificial intelligence may not last, increasing the risks for a global economy already vulnerable due to energy supply shocks and strained public finances, the Bank for International Settlements said in its annual economic report, released Sunday.\n\n**Protecting the CPP means taking the long view on investment returns**\n\nChasing returns of heavily concentrated market indices may work in the moment, but it isn't a strategy built to last, writes John Graham.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/news-of-the-day-return-to-office-report-ends-equity-investors-mortgage-size-ai", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/news-day-return-office-report-213441343.html", "published_at": "2026-06-29 21:34:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-29 22:22:11.506432+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Bank for International Settlements", "Strategic Regional Research Alliance", "Mortgage Professionals Canada", "Martin Pelletier", "John Graham", "Toronto"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/news-of-the-day-return-to-office-report-ends-equity-investors-mortgage-size-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/news-of-the-day-return-to-office-report-ends-equity-investors-mortgage-size-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/news-of-the-day-return-to-office-report-ends-equity-investors-mortgage-size-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/news-of-the-day-return-to-office-report-ends-equity-investors-mortgage-size-ai.jsonld"}}