The Fed sets short-term interest rates, but does not directly control mortgage rates, which tend to move in tandem with the yields on long-term bonds. Those long-term rates are dependent on investor ...
These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Where mortgage rates go this year depends on inflation and Fed policy.
Powell said the Fed did not have to be in a hurry to cut rates further following three consecutive cuts since September last year. He said he was optimistic inflatio ...
Higher tariffs could worsen the squeeze on American families by increasing their taxes, lowering their income, and requiring them to pay more for tariffed goods.
But on the pesky other hand, the Federal Reserve is now concerned about reflation and has halted its interest rate-cutting cycle after just four months. One of their worries is Trump himself, who ...
As inflation stays higher than hoped and the Federal Reserve looks less likely to lower its benchmark rate, mortgage rates aren’t likely to move much this month. “The Fed has short-term interest rates ...
Inflation has been a constant for multiple decades. The Federal Reserve regularly prints new money, and the government ...
President Donald Trump is on the verge of hitting America’s three biggest trading partners with sweeping tariffs, a far more aggressive use of his favorite economic weapon than anything he did during ...
A new GDP report Thursday and the expectation of a sticky inflation reading Friday should reinforce the Federal Reserve’s new wait-and-see approach on interest rates. Comcast stock fell double digits ...
Investors should be on high alert for more AI-stock weakness after DeepSeek disrupted markets and sent shares tumbling.
The revenue and primary deficit targets of the Union budget for 2025-26 are impressive indeed, so bond yields in India are ...
"Despite the 'energy emergency' claims, the US is producing energy in record quantities," JPMorgan Asset Management wrote.