Today’s average interest rate on a 30-year purchase mortgage is 6.891%, a slight increase from yesterday’s 6.817%, according to Zillow data provided to U.S. News. For refinancing mortgages, today’s 30-year rate is 6.992%, and the current 15-year rate is 5.981%. Interest rates on home loans have risen since the beginning of the U.S. war in […]
PEKING, 25. júla 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 23. júla ráno (miestneho času) sa vo Philadelphii v USA otvoril Medzinárodný kongres matematikov (ICM) 2026. Absolventi Pekinskej univerzity (PKU) Hong Wangová a Yu Deng získali Fieldsove medaily za rok 2026, jedno z najprestížnejších ocenení v matematike, čo predstavuje historický míľnik pre Pekinskú univerzitu. Wang Hong (rightmost) and Deng […]
The yield on the 10-year note finished July 24, 2026 at 4.69% while the 2-year note ended at 4.33%. The chart below overlays the daily performance of several Treasury bonds, starting from the pre-recession equity market peaks, along with the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) since 2007. This next table shows the highs and lows of […]
Saturn has unveiled an AI-powered operating system for financial advice firms that it says will cut the cost of delivering regulated advice by streamlining back-office processes and improving compliance. The platform, codenamed Project OS, is already being used by around 50 advice businesses and will be rolled out to the wider market after the summer. […]
A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said Thursday that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking about the day’s Bible readings and carrying little more than her rosary and cellphone. “Honestly, in that moment, I did […]
Some traders still see a rally toward $2,000 as a potential bull trap before ETH makes one final move lower. Pseudonymous crypto trader NoName says Ethereum has just crossed into the price zone where its bear market has historically bottomed, pointing to four straight lower highs as proof the downtrend has run its course. […]
A performance measure for Federal Housing Administration-insured loans improved markedly in the past month, according to the latest numbers from Intercontinental Exchange’s mortgage technology unit. Processing Content New FHA defaults were down 15% over the previous year’s levels in June, marking the biggest decline in more than four years and potentially giving servicers more bandwidth […]
The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell on Friday as investors sold chip stocks on worries about massive spending on artificial intelligence ahead of the next batch of megacap earnings reports, while falling oil prices provided Wall Street with some support even as Middle East hostilities continued. The S&P 500 ended close to flat but its biggest weight […]
There is a distinct psychological whiplash that occurs when we transition from a lifetime of accumulating wealth to the sudden reality of decumulation. In a recent episode of our Retirement Evolution series, I sat down with Andy Fear from M&G to delve into the complex behavioural barriers that surface when the regular pay cheque stops. […]
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) accommodative monetary stance and cumulative rate cut during late FY25 and FY26 led to broad-based easing in lending rates across sectors, a new report shows. According to CareEdge Ratings, transmission was more pronounced in fresh loans, reflecting the growing share of External Benchmark Lending Rate (EBLR)-linked […]