The Federal Reserve has paused its rate-cutting cycle and markets are unsure when the central bank will bring interest rates lower again. Meanwhile, treasury yields and consumer borrowing costs, as ...
Yields on U.S. government debt closed with their largest weekly drops in almost two months, after a milder-than-expected core CPI inflation reading raised the possibility of multiple rate cuts by the ...
Some U.S. consumers are optimistic about the housing market in 2025, believing there's a chance mortgage rates and home ...
High interest rates weighed on home builders during 2024, resulting in the slowest pace of new-home construction in five years and adding another speed bump to the U.S. housing market's recovery.
Nearly every major agency is predicting rates in the 6s or higher for 2025. But could rates drop into the 5s? There's a solid ...
The International Monetary Fund expects the world economy to grow a little faster and inflation to keep falling this year.
Investors received good news with lower inflation rates and potential deregulation, making bank stocks like GS, BK, C, and ...
The jobless rate soared to 14.8% at the height of the pandemic, but by the time Biden took office, it had dropped to 6.4%. It then fell steadily to 3.4% by 2023 as the U.S. recovered fully from the ...
Timing the next HELOC rate drop can be difficult and is something that existing borrowers won't need to worry about ( their rates will adjust independently each month ). That said, based on recent ...
Could a 50-year bond, redeemable in gold on America’s 300th Birthday, point the way out of the era of fiat money?
This week the American Library Association (ALA) filed an amicus brief affirming the FCC's essential Universal Service Fund ...
The spike comes even though the Federal Reserve hoped the opposite would occur following interest rate cut decisions last year.