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2024-07-18 12:23:59 ET More on mortgages Mortgage Rates Are Likely To Decline In The Near Future New Homes 'Seriously Unaffordable' In The U.S. U.S. homebuilder sentiment ebbs in July as high mortgage rates weigh Mortgage applications rise as refinancing acti...

2024-07-18 10:53:08 ET Vanguard believes that interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve may not be right around the corner, as wage growth in the labor market continues to remain strong.... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Fed rate cuts aren&...

2024-07-17 08:50:00 ET Summary Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 51.7 billion in June. Total consolidated U.S. ETF notional value traded in June reached USD 50.2 billion. In the US, as a percentage of total notional value, equities accounted...

2024-07-16 13:58:00 ET Summary Why markets are focusing more on geopolitics than central banks now. Markets remain resilient, but investors appear to be more interested on sure bets now. Why this has become an active manager's market. Equity markets have rema...

2024-07-15 09:50:00 ET Summary The Consumer Price Index actually fell in June by 0.1%, but the year-over-year change was still 3%, a full percent higher than the Fed’s target. The Producer Price Index was a negative surprise, with a headline reading of +0.2% and a core read...

2024-07-15 09:40:43 ET The popular yield curve between the U.S. 2 Year Treasury yield ( US2Y ) and the U.S. 10 Year Treasury yield ( US10Y ) remains inverted but the curve between the U.S. 2 Year Treasury yield ( US2Y ) and the U.S. 30 Year Treasury yield ( US30Y ) has just ...

2024-07-12 11:22:06 ET When will the Federal Reserve announce its first interest rate cut? This might be the biggest question on Wall Street at the moment, and responders who were asked the same question in Seeking Alpha's July Sentiment Survey saw some placing bets as early as July whi...

2024-07-12 10:35:00 ET Summary In June 2024, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate was around 6.9 percent vs around 3.6 percent in January 2019. Given recent monetary policy, it is reasonable to think that inflation will eventually return to 2 percent per year, or at least to the n...

2024-07-12 09:00:00 ET Summary Despite policy rate cuts remaining elusive, several tailwinds are boosting a resilient U.S. economy. While the Fed continues to navigate a potential soft landing, global central banks are actively transitioning onto a path of easing policy. While...

2024-07-11 12:22:19 ET More related to mortgages Mortgage applications fall even as purchase activity rises on lower refinancing demand Home prices relentlessly climb to new heights despite elevated mortgage rates: Redfin U.S. job growth edges down in June, unemploym...