The FOMC cut the federal funds rate by a quarter-point, but that's unlikely to cause 30-year mortgage rates to fall by the same amount. The December rate cut might be advantageous for builders and ...

The economy has had a volatile year marked by ongoing headwinds and uncertainties. Persistent inflation, unpredictability around tariffs, and a stock market that many fear is in the midst of an ...

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 6.37% this week, down six basis points from 6.43% the week before, according to U.S. News data. Mortgage refinance rates also pulled back this week, ...

SAN FRANCISCO/DUBLIN, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Citing worries about inflation and signs of relative stability in the labor market after two U.S. interest rate cuts this year, a growing number of Federal ...

The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday released a batch of annual tax-code adjustments, including the income ranges needed to notch the preferential tax rate on capital gains. Andrew Keshner is a ...

The reliability of electronic assemblies is directly related to the failure rate: higher reliability means a lower failure rate of the drive system, as it reduces the probability of failure within a ...

Mortgage rates moved just a bit lower today. Relative to any other day in the past 2 weeks, it was unremarkable. But because the range has been so narrow over that time, and because rates were already ...

After years of elevated borrowing costs, mortgage rates have finally started moving lower — and the change is already rippling through the housing market. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan ...

The August unemployment level is up to 4.3%. However, that level remains a positive indicator. Why? Because it is well below the historical median level of 5.5%. A full 75% of all the post-World War ...

The rates of various psychiatric diagnoses as applied to children and adolescents can change quite a bit over time for various reasons. There is much debate about the increased prevalence of diagnoses ...

A fossil found in Argentina shows that up to the very end of the age of dinosaurs, they faced serious competition from other reptile species. A life reconstruction of Kostensuchus, a large, ...