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Commentary Just four weeks ago, the 10-year Treasury bond dipped to a 3.62% yield on September 17th. The stock market is now digesting a 50-basis-point rise to 4.12% on the ...

Commentary Last Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement announced a surprising 0.5% key interest rate cut ...

The increase in job numbers, almost double what was forecast, is positive news for the unemployed, but may ...

Commentary Every year, I wonder why the stock market doesn’t close in August since so many traders go ...

Commentary The big NASDAQ sell-off last Wednesday in the wake of Google’s and Tesla’s earnings announcements caused a ...

Commentary While the U.S. presidential election is the focus and former President Trump's trade is the theme, what ...

Commentary Last week was characterized by light holiday trading volume due to the July 4th holiday. Traditionally, the ...

He singled out rising unemployment claims, increases in debt delinquency rates, and what seems to be cooling in ...

Commentary With deficit spending soaring and bond rates still uncomfortably high, the bond and stock markets are always ...

'There seems to be a large number of persistent inflationary pressures, which may likely continue,' Mr. Dimon wrote.

Taking out a mortgage is a laborious task. It takes hours of preparation and volumes of paper. It’s ...

Economists have cautioned against lowering interest rates before May and only doing so gradually thereafter.

The governor of the Bank of Canada (BoC) says he expects the country’s inflation rate to be close ...

Commentary The Federal Reserve Board was born 110 years ago this month. On Dec. 23, 1913, Congress passed ...

Australian borrowers are clearly under pressure but few are at risk of defaulting on their mortgages, the Reserve ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced what its various interest rates for things like underpayment of taxes ...

Government spending is to blame for at least 2 percent of the 4.75 percent hike in interest rates ...

By Gail Perry From Kiplinger's Personal Finance The average interest rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage is now ...

Commentary This morning's jobs numbers fed the bond bulls, printing at 150,000 new jobs, significantly below the consensus ...

Many mortgage-holders are yet to experience the impact of the bank’s two-year long cycle of interest rate hikes, ...

The Federal Reserve kept its key short-term interest rate unchanged on Nov.1 for a second straight time, but ...

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says fiscal and monetary policy are rowing in opposite directions, making it ...

A new report from Bankrate shows that average retail credit interest rates have soared to all-time highs amid ...

Auto loan defaults in the United States have hit their highest level on record, according to data from ...

OTTAWA—Canada's annual inflation rate unexpectedly slowed to 3.8 percent in September and underlying core measures also eased, data ...

Commentary Something more dramatic than the loss of 3,000 American lives happened on September 11, 2001. We seem ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expects interest rates are going to start coming down by the middle of ...