Tag: Interest Rates
Fed Raises Interest Rate Half a Percentage Point, Largest Increase Since 2000
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a half percentage point and announced a plan to shrink its…
How Home Buyers Can Navigate Rising Mortgage Rates
High inflation often translates to high anxiety, which is why many Americans are striving to lock in the…
How to Figure Out if You Can Actually Afford That New Home
High inflation often translates to high anxiety, which is why many Americans are striving to lock in the…
As Stocks Fall, Economic Fears Rise, Along With Inflation
Broadly speaking, earnings reports have shown that profit growth continues, and results from some big firms, like Microsoft…
Stocks Tumble as Jitters over Interest Rates Persist
The prospect of a fast increase in interest rates has hit technology stocks particularly hard. Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon…
How Rising Mortgage Rates Are Affecting the Housing Market
This makes it a good time to be a seller — assuming you don’t need to buy. Christopher…
Prices were 8.5% higher in March than a year earlier.
A Shanghai neighborhood under lockdown last month. Lockdowns in China risk causing further product shortages in the United…
March Fed Minutes: ‘Many’ Officials in Favor of a Big Rate Increase
Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s March meeting showed that central bankers were preparing to shrink their portfolio of…
The US Economy Is Booming. Why Are Economists Worrying About a Recession?
Economists, however, are notoriously terrible at predicting recessions. So it makes sense to focus instead on where the…
Unemployment Nears Prepandemic Level
Federal Reserve officials are tasked with fostering “full employment,” and while it has been difficult to guess what…
The Fed Bets on a ‘Soft Landing,’ but Recession Risk Looms
Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, emphasized this week that the central bank he leads could succeed…
Bond Market Unsettled by Inflation Worries
From a longer vantage, the August 2020 trough may just possibly have marked the end of a 40-year…