Putting retirement savings towards clearing a mortgage could leave some people at risk in old age, former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb said.
The former Biden White House press secretary slammed House Republicans for pushing a "solution looking for a problem" with a non-citizen voting bill.
Japanese shares ended lower on Monday as investors grew cautious ahead of corporate earnings reports, while rising Japanese government bond yields weighed on sentiment. "More local companies are set to announce their outlook but many of them are expected to be conservative so investors were cautious about buying stocks," said Shoichi Arisawa, general manager of the investment research department at IwaiCosmo Securities. The real estate sector lost 3.26% to become the worst performer among the Tokyo Stock Exchange's 33 industry sub-indexes.