After months of sitting out a sluggish housing market, would-be buyers may finally have a reason to jump in: Borrowing rates are tumbling. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.35% for the week ...

As interest rates fall, homeowners may celebrate while savers feel the pinch. Here’s what the change could mean for your ...

Peru cut interest rates to the lowest level since 2022 after inflation unexpectedly plunged last month. The central bank reduced its benchmark rate to 4.25% from 4.5% on Thursday, as forecast by eight ...

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly suggested policymakers will be ready to lower interest rates soon, adding that inflation stemming from tariffs will likely prove temporary.

The bond market is aggressively pricing in a Federal Reserve easing cycle that would see two interest rate cuts by the end of this year, pushing the Fed Funds Rate below 4%. But while markets ...

The interest rate environment is changing once again. After the Federal Reserve kept its federal funds rate on pause for all of 2025, the central bank is poised to issue its first rate cut of the year ...

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Taxable-bond ETFs set a monthly record with $43 billion inflows. US small-cap stock ETFs stopped the bleeding with the category group’s first month of inflows since January. US stock ETF inflows were ...

The clock is ticking. The next Federal Reserve meeting concludes on Sept. 17, and most experts expect a rate cut to be announced at that time. For savers, that's bad news: High-yield savings accounts ...

A weak August jobs report all but clinched a Fed rate cut later this month. A big miss on nonfarm payrolls and an increase in unemployment signaled the need for stimulus. The report was so weak that ...

The three-month average now sits at 29,000, a level so low that it virtually seals the case for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. The first move is widely expected to come at the Sept. 17 meeting ...

UK banks are ramping up their lending to prospective homeowners, as more Britons seize the opportunity to get on the housing ladder, spurred by recent interest rate cuts from the Bank of England (BoE) ...