Today’s average interest rate on a 30-year purchase mortgage is 6.742%, up from 6.719% yesterday, according to Zillow data provided to U.S. News. For refinancing mortgages, today’s 30-year rate is 6.874%, and the current 15-year rate is 5.866%. Interest rates on home loans have risen since the beginning of the U.S. war in Iran in…
Classroom Published: Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 18:17 [IST] India has made significant progress in promoting clean cooking fuels over the past decade, with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) becoming the preferred choice for millions of households. However, ethanol-based cooking stoves are now attracting attention as another cleaner alternative. While both fuels promise smoke-free cooking, they differ…
One of the better ways for income investors to profit from the energy sector is by snapping up shares of a pipeline company. And one of the more appealing pipeline plays is Energy Transfer (ET 0.25%), which transports crude oil and its refined products, plus natural gas. Energy Transfer is structured as a master limited…
“This bill takes partisan politics and posturing off the table,” said House Appropriations Chair Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., of a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government to Dec. 4. Al Drago/Bloomberg News The House is expected to vote this week on a stopgap spending bill to fund the government until after November’s midterm elections…
Mortgage rates didn’t move much today. July’s rates have remained elevated beyond what we saw in June, trending above last month’s average (6.34%) for 19 days straight. The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage ticked down to 6.48% APR, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. This is one basis point lower…
But the larger pull is simpler: AI is where the speculative money and investors’ attention are now going. The capital that once chased crypto is now chasing compute, chips and model builders, and every leap in what these systems can do widens that appeal. Each result like Fable’s finding of the Jacobian conjecture strengthens the…
The dollar index (DXY00) is up by +0.06% today. The dollar is slightly higher today as the escalation of hostilities between the US and Iran is boosting crude oil prices, which raises inflation expectations that could prompt the Fed to tighten monetary policy, a supportive factor for the dollar. Higher T-note yields today have also…
State Bank of India (SBI) does not plan to dilute any further stake in its asset management subsidiary, SBI Funds Management, after its stock market debut, Chairman C S Setty said on Tuesday. “At this stage, we are not considering any further stake dilution. Any future decision would, of course, be guided…
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CALGARY, AB, July 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Board of Directors of Calgary Co-operative Association Limited (“Calgary Co-op”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Clarke as Chief Executive Officer. “After a thorough search process, we’re tremendously excited, proud and fortunate to have attracted someone of Andrew’s caliber to the Calgary Co-op, a true…