History says 6%-plus mortgage rates are still too low
Take January's 6.4% inflation rate, add mortgage's historic 2.5-point gap. That means an 8.9% home-loan rate.
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Leaving California: What state is the best bargain?
The study's overall conclusion was move to Colorado 鈥� and avoid Hawaii.
Mortgage rates too high? Not according to inflation
Mortgage rates have run below the inflation rate for 21 months 鈥� breaking a record-setting streak from nearly a half-century ago.
What if stocks were tracked like home prices?
Compared to stocks, it feels like we're hopelessly behind when tracking home prices. That's especially troublesome when housing's status is so muddied as it is as 2023 starts.
This CEO thinks consumers deserve simpler, quicker financial transactions
Jennifer Schulz, new CEO of Experian North America, wants deeper relationship with consumers while getting better decision-making information to businesses.
The mistake that cost Disney’s Bob Chapek his CEO job
What Chapek misread 鈥� and he's by no means alone 鈥� is that the pandemic is over to the American consumer.
Can it be a recession with 4.5% job growth?
US economy suffering a mild downturn vs. 10 other periods of consecutive GDP contractions.
Is housing industry selling shelter or investments?
Many trackers who saw little chance home prices would dip in 2022 now drop odd hints that they might have been wrong.
Midterm forecast: Gas prices get GOP control of U.S. House
Chapman University research suggests Republicans will gain control of the House by flipping 53 seats to its side of the political aisle in November.
Bubble watch: Could mortgage rates hit 10%?
The last time "sticky" inflation was above 5% (it was 4.97% in May) was 1991 and mortgage rates ran 9.47%.