Today's Mortgage Rates | Rates May Not Drop as Much as Expected Next Year
These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Unless the economy starts to weaken, we might not see mortgage rates drop as ...
CDs vs. I Bonds: What's the Better Place for Your Cash?
Series I Savings Bonds, or I bonds, became extremely popular a couple of years ago when inflation spiked to a multi-decade ...
Does government spending cause inflation, and did Biden-Harris make it worse?
Prices rose 2.6% between October 2023 and the same month in 2024, an unremarkable figure. Yet, inflation seems to be on ...
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Seller’s market: Kane County housing market leans toward those that already have a house
Kane County real estate professionals don’t believe the Fed’s influence is as strong as other factors and expect current ...
CD Rates Mostly Held Firm This Week—But the Top Nationwide Offer Is Expected to End Soon
The best CD rates held their ground in all but one term this past week, meaning you can still snag a rate up to 5.50%. But ...
S&P 500 is on a 12-month tear as tariffs threaten 2025 outlook for U.S. stocks
David Kostin, chief U.S. equity strategist at Goldman Sachs Group, has forecast that the S&P 500 could rise to 6,500 by the end of next year. During a media briefing earlier this week, he said that ...
'Padding the profit margin': Why are interest rates still rising on store credit cards?
The Federal Reserve hasn’t raised interest rates since the summer of 2023. But America’s retailers apparently didn’t get the ...
Prediction: More Homeowners Will Refinance Their Mortgages in 2025. Here's Why
There's a good chance more homeowners will refinance their mortgages in 2025 if it brings lower mortgage rates with it. And ...
Fed rate cuts triumph over Trump’s economic policies: A defining market battle
The Federal Reserve's rate cuts are poised to shape the U.S. and global economies, potentially overshadowing the impact of ...
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Interest Rates Recently Did Something They Haven't Done Since March 2020, and It Could Trigger a Big Move in the Stock Market
Interest rates hit a two-decade high following the Federal Reserve's last hike in 2023. With inflation clearly trending lower ...
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A confrontation between Trump and the Fed might be inevitable
Forget the tariffs and mass deportations. The sleeper economic issue of the next few years — the one where President-elect Donald Trump could wreak the most permanent damage ...
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Mortgage Predictions: How the Election Shifted the Path to Lower Rates
Any incoming economic data that beats markets' expectations, such as hotter inflation or lower unemployment, reduces the ...