All signs’ point to more expensive costs, economist says MBA measure of 30-year mortgage rate in US hit 7.09% US homebuyers contending with the highest borrowing costs in eight months are seeing mortgage rates rise past a psychological barrier that risks complicating...

Representatives Ed Case (D-HI) and Steve Womack (R-AR) recently reintroduced the Sustainable Budget Act (H.R. 222), which would establish an 18-member bipartisan commission tasked with developing recommendations to reduce the deficit and address the nation’s fiscal...

S&P 500 briefly falls below closing level before Trump’s win Rally in Treasury yields sends ripples through equities market It’s the round-trip ticket no one on Wall Street wanted. The S&P 500 Index on Monday briefly dropped below where it ended on Nov. 5,...

Franklin Templeton announced today the launch of its first continuously offered fund focused on secondary private equity investments. Co-advised by Franklin Templeton and Lexington Partners, a pioneer in the private equity secondary and co-investment markets, the...

Options trades were up some $138 million in early December Chinese stock indexes retreat into bear market on geopolitics Traders who briefly had been sitting on more than $100 million in paper profits after buying call options in early December on a pair of tiny...

UK 10-, 30-year gilts headed for worst week in a year Investors remain worried about UK’s fiscal, inflation outlook A hectic week for UK bond and currency traders came to an end with yields stuck near the highest levels in years and the pound at its weakest since late...