Ongoing strength in the U.S. economy drove mortgage rates up over 7% for the first time in eight months, casting doubt over a recovery in the housing sector. The 30-year mortgage rate inched up to ...

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. The U.S. unemployment rate is released on the first Friday of every month for the preceding month. The current and past ...

In Japan, interest rates are set by the Bank of Japan's Policy Board in its Monetary Policy Meetings. The BoJ's official interest rate is the discount rate. Monetary Policy Meetings produce a ...

It will announce its decisions at the end of its deliberations. The BOJ ended years of negative interest rates in March and raised its short-term policy target to 0.25% in July. It has signalled a ...

The country's biggest bank is cutting a range of shorter-term interest rates. ANZ Bank said it would drop its special interest rates by between 15 and 25 basis points. The six-month rate drops from ...

But despite landing slightly higher than Reserve Bank forecasts, a 50-basis-point Official Cash Rate (OCR) cut in February remains on the table, economists say. The Reserve Bank (RBNZ) cut the OCR ...

At Zurich, the nearest large airport to Davos, 54 private jets landed on Monday, an increase of 170 per cent compared to the average for the past week. A spokesperson for Zurich Airport told ...

Macquarie Bank will now offer customers a one-year fixed rate of 5.55 per cent for owner-occupiers paying principal and interest assuming they have at least a 30 per cent deposit. For owner ...

The Federal Reserve announced today that interest rates will remain unchanged. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) There is little chance that the Federal Open Market Committee will cut interest ...

UK pay after inflation has risen at its fastest rate for more than three years, driven by strong wage growth in the private sector. Pay packets increased on average by 3.4% between September and ...