Most current mortgage rates have decreased. According to Zillow, the average 30-year fixed interest rate is down five basis points to 6.67%, and the 15-year fixed rate has dropped by four basis points to 5.95%. Mortgage rates are still high, and they probably won’t plummet drastically in 2025. This could be a good time to […]

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Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks have been some of the best investments to be holding in recent years. But you may wonder about the next big trend in AI, and which stocks might be poised to benefit the most from it. Chipmaker Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is at the forefront of all things AI these days. Its chips

Artificial intelligence is the topic du jour at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting — a major gathering of political and corporate leaders — in Davos, Switzerland. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP / Getty Images Of all the corporate buzzwords, artificial intelligence is by far the one that’s been on every major corporate leader’s lips

Key Takeaways Mortgage rates took a turn for the better last week, shaving off some of their post-Christmas surge. Rates on new 30-year fixed-rate loans are down a notable 13 basis points from the previous week, averaging 6.96% on Friday. 15-year loans saw their Friday-to-Friday average drop a more sizable 16 basis points, now down

A new SEC cryptocurrency task force announced on Donald Trump’s second day in office helped stoke some new investor enthusiasm for digital assets as the crypto world waited for executive orders from the new president. The goal of the “crypto task force” from the Securities and Exchange Commission is to help the US regulator “draw

President Donald Trump made hundreds of “day one” pledges while campaigning, but they didn’t all materialize. That said, it’s only the first week of Trump’s presidency and he has a long list of plans he wants to enact in his first 100 days in office and beyond. On Trump’s first day as president, he made

The Federal Reserve now needs to be on Trump watch if it wants to engineer the proper dose of monetary policy, according to Bank of America chief Brian Moynihan. “They’ve got a new administration with a new set of fiscal policies, and the monetary policy has to respond to that,” the BofA chair and CEO

Photo illustration shows the TikTok logo displayed on a mobile phone screen. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Canadian investor Kevin O’Leary is still interested in a TikTok deal, but it’s not possible under current law, he told CNBC, as President Donald Trump extended the deadline for a ban on the social media platform.

By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – Meta Platforms’ former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, was sanctioned by a judge on Tuesday for deleting emails related to litigation over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, despite being told to preserve the messages. The judge, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster, of Delaware Chancery Court, said evidence showed Sandberg