The Federal Reserve has battled a variety of economic troubles over the past 35 years. Between tech busts, a financial crisis ...

The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed purchase mortgage is 6.409% on April 14, 2026, just as the spring homebuying ...

The Iran cease-fire may be the ‘green light’ the Fed needs.

The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed purchase mortgage is 6.502% on April 7, 2026, just as the spring homebuying ...

Monitoring the interest rate climate for homebuyers and owners hoping to refinance can easily become a daily activity. And in the interest rate climate of recent years, it was often a disappointing ...

The week of September 8, 2022. That was the last time in which FreddieMac, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, had the average 30-year mortgage interest rate listed under 6%. Until this week.

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for a third time this year, but officials were divided over their next move. Jerome Powell, the central bank’s chair, said “we haven’t made any decision about ...

The Federal Reserve voted Wednesday to hold interest rates and maintained its forecast for one cut this year, as concerns have spread in recent weeks about the Iran war’s possible impact on the U.S.

Student loan interest rates remain fairly stable, but federal rates are likely to change in the second half of the year ...

The Federal Reserve concluded its last meeting of the year with a widely anticipated 25 basis point cut to the federal funds rate (FFR), bringing it to a range of 3.50-3.75%. Inflation has proven ...