Podcast: How COVID-19 Has Shifted the U.S. Demographic Outlook

The rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 6.84% this week. The rate for a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage was 6.02%.

Existing home sales increased 3.5% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.96 million, the National Association of Realtors reported. Sales rose 2.9% from a year ago. The median existing-home sales price rose 4% from a...

Middle market businesses don’t get the attention of the Fortune 500 or the love that small businesses get from policymakers, but these firms are still critical to the economy — accounting for a third of private-sector GDP and...

Credit demand remained stable in 2024 but consumers reported higher rejection rates and said they are less likely to apply for credit in the near future, according to the New York Fed’s most recent Credit Access Survey.

Housing starts decreased by 3.1% in October from the month prior to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.31 million, the Commerce Department reported. The rate was 4% below the October 2023 level.

Builder confidence in the market for single-family homes in November was 46, up from 43 the previous month, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.