Investors typically expect rising long-term rates to put pressure on stocks, especially when inflation spikes, but the S&P 500 SPX was up slightly for one week through Thursday, up 4.1% for 2025 and ...

Rewinding further, the 30-year average notched a high 7.37% last spring, so today's rates are significantly improved vs. 10 months ago. They're also almost 1.2 percentage points cheaper than the ...

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As mortgage rates in the United States remain elevated, potential homebuyers and those looking to refinance face a ...

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased for the fourth week in a row, an encouraging sign for prospective ...

Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners seeking to refinance their loan to a lower rate, ...

Wednesday, pushing the average to a two-week high. Rates moved higher for almost every other loan type as well.

The Trump administration's shuttering of a federal agency created to protect consumers will open the floodgates for ...

Overall debt levels held by Americans rose modestly in the final quarter of last year on a healthy consumer sector, even as ...

The share of outstanding US consumer debt that’s in delinquency rose in the fourth quarter to the highest in almost five years, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York report.

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The bond yields that underpin mortgage rates have whipped around amid tariff threats and new inflation data. The average rate on a 30-year loan dipped this week but remains near 7%.