What Fed cuts mean for your finances • Mortgage rates above 6% next year is consensus forecast
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| | U.S. stocks tumbled to one of their worst days of the year. |
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| The central bank’s rate cut Wednesday, its third consecutive since September, is good news for many borrowers. |
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| In 2024, the average rate has gone as low as 6.08% in September — a 2-year low — and as high as 7.22% in May. |
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| Raven Baxter, astonished when a white homeowner tried to deny her the right to buy a condo, tells her tale. |
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| A drop in multifamily projects mitigated a rebound in starts of single-family houses, solely in the storm-ravaged South. |
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| Lawyers already are seeking clients for lawsuits against the health system over possibly 17 million confidential records stolen by hackers. |
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| It’s becoming an essential part of credit card use and management, and not just because of the potential for bonus rewards. |
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| Sweetgreen is putting an assembly line of robotic chefs to work preparing bowls of everything from Kale Caesar to Hummus Crunch. |
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| The market for U.S. bomb and fallout shelters is forecast to grow from $137 million last year to $175 million by 2030, according to a market research report from BlueWeave Consulting. |
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| The EPA granted California’s waiver, which the incoming Trump administration is likely to try to overturn in the courts. |
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