WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits held steady last week, though continuing claims rose ...

Predicting the future is always precarious, but next year seems less certain than most. As mathematician John Allen Paulos ...

Count us as two financial economists hoping only certain inflation measures fall slower than expected, and everyone’s ...

The effects of the Fed’s half-point rate cut in September and its quarter-point cut in November have largely been passed through to auto loans, which fell on average from a peak of 7.3% in July to 6.8 ...

It is something of a tradition every December to take stock of the year that is ending and consider what might lie ahead.

Most central banks around the world closed in on taming inflation this year without bringing about a recession. Many of them ...

As consumers enter the new year, many make resolutions about what they want to do with their money in 2025. Certified ...

Bitcoin soared to record highs in 2024, driven by ETFs, political shifts, and macro factors. A tumultuous year saw Bitcoin ...

U.S. stocks ripped higher and carried the S&P 500 to records as the economy kept growing and the Federal Reserve began ...

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates were supposed to drop in 2025, but sticky inflation has pushed them back up recently.

With the Fed cutting rates, some savers say they are done moving money from bank to bank in pursuit of the best return on ...

The Federal Reserve is poised to make several key decisions during the year ahead that will impact monetary policy both in ...