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A real estate agent shows a prospective buyer a home as he shops for a house in Coral Gables, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The average rate on the most popular mortgage, the 30-year fixed, fell for the third straight week, but demand for mortgages didn’t move much. Total mortgage application volume increased 0.5%

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT When Amazon first announced plans for a second corporate headquarters in 2017, it set off an epic bidding war. Virginia beat 237 competitors to win the project, and when it finally opened last week in the Crystal City section of Arlington, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin

In this article BABA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A folk artist paints eyes of a dragon on a dragon boat to prepare for the Dragon Boat Festival on May 27, 2023 in Dongguan, Guangdong Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open,

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In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Six years ago, Amazon kicked off a sweepstakes-style contest in search of where to build a second headquarters. The competition drew bids from 238 states, provinces and cities vying to be the next anchor for the nation’s dominant online retailer and second-largest private employer. This

Westend61 | Getty As interest rates have climbed, homebuyers have been confronted with higher borrowing costs. That has led more home purchasers to opt for one strategy, purchasing mortgage points, as a way to defray higher monthly payments. Mortgage points let buyers pay an upfront fee to lower the interest rate on their loans. In

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday said he feels the Federal Reserve needs to be transparent with its plans, especially in the wake of restaurant chain Cava‘s highly successful IPO, which he believes is a sign the market is heating up. Cramer thinks a prosperous IPO market could lead to an influx of money on Wall

A raft of weak Chinese economic data in May has raised hopes of decisive policy intervention. Market watchers are anticipating the next steps from China’s State Council and a Politburo meeting in July, during which the Communist Party’s top brass will review the country’s economic performance in the first half of the year. related investing

Ethan Miller | Getty Images News | Getty Images Mortgage rates are likely to remain high despite the Federal Reserve’s pause on interest rate hikes. While that may be good sign for fixed-income funds in California, the pause is a blow to affordable housing in the state, said Fiona Ma, California state treasurer, during the

Richard Newstead | Moment | Getty Images Housing is perhaps the most consequential category in the consumer price index, a key inflation barometer. As the largest expense for an average U.S. household, shelter accounts for more than a third of the CPI weighting, the most of any other consumer good or service. That gives housing

We’re initiating a new position in Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), buying 100 shares at roughly $89.59 each. Following Wednesday’s trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable trust will own 100 shares of SWK, representing approximately 0.32% of the portfolio. This global leader in hand and power tools, household hardware, and engineered fastening systems is getting called up

View Press | Corbis News | Getty Images Rent prices in the U.S. are now out of reach for many low-wage earners. A full-time worker in the U.S. needs to make $28.58 an hour, on average, to afford the rent on a modest two-bedroom apartment in their area. In California, Hawaii, Massachusetts and New York,

A “For Sale” sign outside a house in Albany, California, US, on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Homebuyers are facing a worsening affordability situation with mortgage rates hovering around the highest levels in more than a decade. Joe Raedle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage rates pulled back for the second straight week last week, and

In this article GSBD GS MS KMI Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT NANNING, CHINA – MAY 17, 2023 – A commercial residential property is seen in Nanning, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, May 17, 2023. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images Weakness in China’s real estate sector could be a drag

The threat of tornadoes is rising as the weather conditions that create them are becoming more frequent and widespread due to global warming, experts say. That means a lot of areas that rarely see these storms are now in their paths. The U.S. experienced six times more billion-dollar severe storms in the past decade than

In this article GS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CEO David Solomon, Goldman Sachs, during a Bloomberg Television at the Goldman Sachs Financial Services Conference in New York, Dec. 6, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Monday that his bank will disclose markdowns on commercial real

“Persistently high inflation and the recent spike in lending rates will trigger a correction in the UK (Aa3 negative) housing market,” Moody’s Investor Service said in a report. Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON – The U.K.’s biggest bank temporarily withdrew mortgage deals via broker services on Thursday, as the effect of

damircudic | E+ | Getty Images The Federal Reserve is likely to temporarily pause its aggressive interest rate hikes when it meets next week, experts predict. But consumers may not see any relief. The central bank has raised interest rates 10 times since last year — the fastest pace of tightening since the early 1980s — only

A sign is posted in front of a home for sale in San Francisco, February 20, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Even in a housing market that has slowed significantly due to rising mortgage rates, the supply of homes for sale is about half of what it was in 2019. The shortage is hitting

Hong Kong has ended its four-year reign as the most expensive city globally for expatriates — surpassed by New York which took first place, according to a new survey.  ECA International’s latest “Cost of Living” research ranked 207 cities based on a basket of day-to-day goods and services commonly purchased by assignees.  That includes food,