Bankrate on MSN1h
Mortgage rate history: 1970s to 2025
Key takeaways Looking at the past four decades, the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage peaked in 1981, rising just ...
Stellar Price Prediction: XLM overtakes XRP with $1.5B boost
Stellar (XLM) price climbed 12% to $0.43 on Thursday, adding over $1.5 billion to its market capitalization. Having often mirrored XRP’s movements, XLM’s market-leading performance on Monday signals ...
Could the Fed hold interest rates steady all year?
After their meeting Wednesday, Fed officials held interest rates steady in a range of 4.25%-4.5%. In December, Fed officials had penciled in two quarter-point cuts for 2025. Also read: Powell takes ...
Trump slams Fed after decision to hold interest rates steady
Policymakers left their benchmark rate unchanged amid signs that the economy is humming along, defying the president’s ...
Fed leaves rates unchanged, sees no hurry to cut again
Global shares rose as investors digested earnings from Microsoft and Meta in the wake of this week's rout in technology ...
What Fed rate cut? Most Americans say they haven't felt the impact of the central bank's policies - especially millennials.
The average interest rate on new cars fell to 6.8% in the fourth quarter of 2024 - when the Fed first started cutting rates - from 7.4% a year earlier, according to data from the car-buying site ...
The Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady: Here's what that means for your money
The Fed paused rate cuts after its first meeting of the year — here’s what that means for your credit card, mortgage rate, ...
Canadian Dollar recedes after BoC cuts rates and ends QT
The Canadian Dollar lost 0.25% against the Greenback on Wednesday. The Bank of Canada cut interest rates by another 25 bps, ...
BSL: A Discounted CEF Aligned With Higher-For-Longer Interest Rates
BSL CEF's elevated yield will likely be sustained due to the vehicle's speculative-grade rating exposure and the interest ...
Data Update 4 For 2025: Interest Rates, Inflation And Central Banks
In this post, I will begin by looking at movements in treasury rates, across maturities, during 2024, and the resultant ...
The Fed Is About to Hit Pause on Rate Cuts. Here’s Why.
Faced with a solid economy and mounting inflation concerns, the U.S. central bank has said it will “move cautiously” on ...
Charting the Global Economy: Bank of Japan Raises Interest Rates
The Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate to the highest level since 2008 and took a more bullish view on the strength of ...