Browsing: Economy

By Safiyah Riddle (Reuters) – Rates on the most popular U.S. home loan hit the highest level since 2001 on Thursday, according to Freddie Mac (OTC:)’s…

The numbers: Orders for long-lasting goods rose in July for the third month in a row if recent ups and downs at Boeing are set aside, suggesting…

By Carien du Plessis , Anait Miridzhanian and Bhargav Acharya JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The BRICS bloc of developing nations agreed on Thursday to admit Saudi Arabia,…

U.S. mortgage rates increased for the fifth week in a row, with the 30-year reaching the highest level since 2001.  The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.23%…

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two Federal Reserve officials on Thursday tentatively welcomed a jump in bond market yields as something that could…

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said he thinks the U.S. central bank has raised interest rates high enough to bring inflation down…

By Hannah Lang and Lance Tupper (Reuters) -Shares in Better Home & Finance Holding plummeted more than 93% on Thursday as investors snubbed the online mortgage…

There is a risk that the Federal Reserve has not done enough to quell inflation and also a risk of the central bank overtightening U.S. monetary…

By Davide Barbuscia and Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – Recent shifts in the U.S. Treasury yield curve may indicate that market optimism around the economy…

What issues dominated at Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate? The word cloud shown above, which is based on a transcript of the debate, is an attempt…