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 ...

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 ...

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Where mortgage rates go this year depends on inflation and Fed policy.

As inflation stays higher than hoped and the Federal Reserve looks less likely to lower its benchmark rate, mortgage rates ...

A once-dominant BlackRock bond exchange-traded fund (ETF) is at risk of losing its crown as the biggest inflation-hedging ...

Aggregate US debt is $101.353T, or 3.45x GDP, indicating a historically high leverage that risks recession. Read why ...

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 ...

SOFI has had an outstanding rally since the 2022 bottoms, as the macroeconomic outlook turns optimistic and the Fed rate cuts ...

Investors should be on high alert for more AI-stock weakness after DeepSeek disrupted markets and sent shares tumbling.

Traders are ramping up bets for a deeper divergence between European and US interest rates, setting the euro on a clear path ...

Last week the Federal Reserve described the US labour market as “solid” and noted that the unemployment rate had stabilised. This week’s monthly jobs report on Friday will put that view to the test.