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US mortgage rates dipped this week, backing off 7% as inflation slows ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate decision meeting next week.

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Bulls and bears have always engaged in battle on Wall Street. But the divide between so-called “bulls” and “bears” — optimistic investors who forecast rising stock prices and pessimistic investors who expect declining stock prices — is growing wider.

The bond and stock markets are finally seeing eye to eye when it comes to the Federal Reserve.

Robert Kiyosaki, the author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad," says the stock market is flashing red and the US economy faces a long and painful downturn.

US wages have been on the rise, but it sure hasn’t felt like it. For more than two years, persistent and pervasive inflation has taken big bites out of Americans’ paychecks.

The latest data shows inflation is clearly on the backfoot. The June report showed inflation fell for the twelfth month in a row, dropping to 3% year-over-year, in what amounts to the most prolonged period of pullbacks since the early 1980s. The core measure, which takes out food and energy prices, dropped to 4.8% – the slowest rate seen since November 2021. According to Raymond James CIO Larry Adam, an even more noteworthy aspect is that the core measure is now below the current fed fund...

Dave Liniger has spent the last half-century living through the ups and downs of the interest-sensitive housing market.

Inflation hit a two-year low of 3% in June, leading Hanke to proclaim the threat is over, and Krugman and El-Erian to strike more cautious tones.

St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard, one of the most hawkish members of the central bank since it started it aggressive rate-hiking campaign, is stepping down. Bullard is leaving his position as president and CEO of the St. Louis Fed to become the inaugural dean of the Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. School of Business at Purdue University next month, the bank announced Thursday. While he'll be available in an “advisory capacity” to the Fed until Aug. 14, Bullard ...