As a lifelong health and fitness enthusiast with 15 years of experience, Rachel MacPherson is passionate about cutting through fads and noise. Her aim is to clearly communicate health information with ...

Subscribers to Chart of the Week received this commentary on Sunday, September 22. By Friday, the euphoria over the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut -- and subsequent Thursday melt up -- had worn ...

The broadest measure of inflation -- the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) -- has shown clear signs of tapering over the past year. However, a "core" component of the CPI-U remains ...

The Federal Reserve aggressively raised interest rates during the pandemic to cool inflation. But the rate hikes caused some mortgage lenders to raise their rates, as well. This has kept housing costs ...

The most important thing on Wall Street’s mind right now is interest rates. The stock market could initially deal with rising rates, as we saw from August through mid-December. But then rates rose far ...

Mortgage rates have been historic in their own right during the past few years. The average 30-year fixed rate reached an all-time record low of 2.65% in January 2021 before surging to 7.79% in ...

Home buyers are going to have to settle for a 7% mortgage. The cost of a home loan has soared in recent years, in part thanks to a series of rate increases by the Federal Reserve. The average rate on ...

Compared to the pandemic-era record lows observed just a few years ago, mortgage rates feel uncomfortably high. But when someone points out that mortgages are still painfully expensive right now, a ...