Purchase interest rates for mortgages have hardly moved today. According to Zillow, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate is up by one basis point to 6.72%, the 20-year fixed rate is down by two basis points to 6.59%, and the 15-year fixed rate has increased by two basis points to 6.06%. Not exactly groundbreaking. Mortgage interest […]

Shares of BrainAurora Medical Technology, a provider of medical diagnostics and digital therapies, traded flat in their Hong Kong debut on Wednesday, in the city’s first initial public offering (IPO) of the year. The stock, which trades under the 6681 code, opened at HK$3.22. The Hang Seng Index slipped 0.4 per cent at 9.49am local

Key Takeaways The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a rule banning credit bureaus from including medical debt from consumer credit scores. The rule won’t go into effect for another two months, at which point the new Trump administration will be in power. The rule is part of a flurry of activity by the government’s

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gestures as he makes remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. Jan. 7, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump warned Tuesday that “all hell will break out in the Middle East” if Hamas does not release the hostages it is holding in Gaza by the time he is

The irony of the crypto market is how much it falls when the economy is doing well. On Tuesday, a couple of important economic readings came in better than expected, and Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and other cryptocurrencies dropped on the news. As of 4:30 p.m. ET, Bitcoin was down 4.9% in the past 24 hours,

Many retirees look forward to Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which for 2025 is 2.5%. The COLA technically takes effect in December, with beneficiaries seeing updated payments in January. The average retired worker collects around $1,925 per month from Social Security, so the 2.5% COLA will amount to a monthly raise of around $48.

Lifeway Foods has maintained the shareholder agreement the company has with investor – and suitor – Danone is “invalid”. The kefir maker, a takeover target for Danone, responded to claims from the French giant that it had breached an investor deal between the two companies. Late last month, Danone wrote to Lifeway claiming the US

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits “Making Money With Charles Payne” at Fox Business Network Studios in New York on Dec. 4, 2024. Mike Coppola | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s sister, Ann Altman, filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that her brother sexually abused her regularly between the years of 1997 and 2006. The

Nvidia (NVDA) stock closed at a record high on Monday ahead of CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Shares rose more than 3% to $149.43 — north of Nvidia’s previous record closing price of $148.88 per share on Nov. 7, 2024. As Wall Street analysts head

Key Takeaways Moderna shares soared Tuesday as investors placed bets that the pharmaceutical giant’s development of an H5N1 bird flu vaccine could boost sales after the first death linked to the disease was reported in the U.S.  The stock closed decisively above the closely-watched 50-day moving average today on the highest volume since December’s triple