The U.S. got lucky during hurricane season. That could help lower insurance costs next year. But don’t bet on too much. This year marked the first time in 10 years that none of the hurricanes that ...

Employers added 64,000 jobs in November, according to data delayed by the government shutdown. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6 percent, the highest level in four years. +400,000 The average job ...

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate slightly to 6.39% this week, up from 6.37% the week before, according to U.S. News data. Mortgage refinancing rates decreased slightly for the 30-year term, ...

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer discussed after the Fed rate cut. Cramer noted that the rates do not matter to the company, as he remarked: “There’s no way to relate ...

One of Louisiana’s biggest property insurers sent a promising signal this week, saying declining reinsurance costs are allowing the company to cut homeowners insurance premiums by an average of 7.5%.

The Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point, as expected, but there were dissents in the final vote. If we look all together, we expect two rate cuts next year, which is one more than the Fed. A ...

The Fed cut its policy rate by 0.25% today and mortgage rates moved lower after the announcement. That said, those two developments are not related. In fact, there was no movement in the bonds that ...

Thanks to its latest decision on Wednesday – its final one for 2025 – the Federal Reserve has now reduced its key overnight lending rate by 1.75 percentage points since it began its rate-cutting cycle ...

New Zealand’s new central bank governor, Anna Breman, said there is no pre-determined course for interest rates the bank will adjust its policy stance as required as it monitors incoming data.

The national stillbirth rate declined 2% between 2023 and 2024, according to a recent CDC report, but health experts say the average rate of 5.41 fetal deaths per 1,000 remains too high. In 2023, the ...

Carla is a writer from Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, now based in Atlanta. She’s an Emory alum with both a BA and MA in English, but more importantly, she’s a Pisces with lots of opinions about video games.

Federal Reserve officials held “strongly differing views” about whether to cut interest rates in December, with sentiment among them rising that progress on inflation had stalled, according to a ...