Rates are on the rebound again as investors weigh a strong June jobs report and the Trump administration’s threats to impose new tariffs in August. …
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Requests to refinance are up 40 percent from a year ago, but uncertainty “continues to hold homebuyers out of the market,” Mortage Bankers Association economist…
As Fed policymakers await more data confirming that inflation has been tamed, futures markets put the odds of a September rate cut at 90 percent,…
The University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment fell 11 percent from March to April and is now lower than it was during the Great…
Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index dropped to an annual rate of 2.4 percent last month, but the impact of tariffs is unlikely…
Heightened fears of a trade war and recession have investors convinced that the Fed will start cutting rates again in June — a sentiment that…
Republicans are less worried about the future than Democrats and Independents, but “consumers from all three political affiliations are in agreement that the outlook has…
Homebuyers have responded to a pullback in mortgage rates from January highs, but tariffs on imported goods could keep inflation elevated and halt the downward…