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A “For Sale” sign outside a house in Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Marco Bello | Bloomberg | Getty Images A sharp drop in mortgage interest rates sent homeowners and potential homebuyers to their mortgage lenders. Total mortgage application volume surged 8.6% last week compared with the previous week, according to the

Construction worker make infrastructure repairs on the intersection of Church Avenue and Coney Island Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn borough on April 06, 2021 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The setting for 2021 seems clear: A powerful growth trajectory fueled by an influx of government spending as the

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., gestures while speaking during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Global Markets Conference in Paris, France, on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Christopher Morin | Bloomberg | Getty Images Government stimulus programs aimed at reducing suffering during the coronavirus pandemic have left consumers flush with

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on “The Quarterly CARES Act Report to Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 1, 2020. Susan Walsh | Pool | Reuters The U.S. economy is at a turning point thanks to government support and a speedy campaign to inoculate Americans against Covid-19,

Rick Nazarro of Colonial Manor Realty talks with a pair of interested buyers in the driveway as a couple waits to enter a property he is trying to sell during a “controlled” open house on May 2, 2020 in Revere, MA. Blake Nissen | Boston Globe | Getty Images The housing market has been white

Consumer prices shot higher in March, given a boost both by a strong economic recovery and year-over-year comparisons to a time when the Covid-19 pandemic was about to throttle the U.S. economy, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. The consumer price index rose 0.6% from the previous month but 2.6% from the same period a year

While the number of Americans struggling to put food on the table and pay bills fell last month, new data shows that millions are still feeling the financial effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.  The third round of stimulus payments started to hit bank accounts on March 12, so it’s not surprising that the number of

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Despite what he sees as a rapidly recovering economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Sunday reaffirmed the central bank’s commitment to keep loose monetary policy on place. That includes a statement of near-certainty that interest rates won’t be going anywhere as inflation remains tame and

For the week ending on March 21, there were around 684,000 new unemployment claims across the country, according to WalletHub. That’s down significantly from April 2020, when 6.6 million first-time claims were made in just one week. But some states are recovering faster than others. WalletHub determined which states saw the number of unemployment claims

Federal Reserve officials indicated at their last meeting that the pace of asset purchases is unlikely to change anytime soon while the central bank pursues its economic goals. The Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released minutes from the March 16-17 meeting as investors looked for indications about where policy may be heading in the

Adewale Adeyemo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s deputy, on Wednesday said increasing the U.S. corporate tax rate to 28% will not make American companies less competitive, because the Biden administration is confident it can win the support of developed nations to set a minimum tax worldwide. “We’ve worked very closely with our international counterparts to counter

Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said that while U.S. economic outlook has “brightened considerably,” it remains well away from the central bank’s goals. “Brighter outlook, but of course our monetary policy forward guidance is premised on outcomes not the outlook, and so it is going to be some time before both employment and inflation have

First-time claims for unemployment insurance rose more than expected last week despite other signs of healing in the jobs market, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time claims for the week ended April 3 totaled 744,000, well above the expectation for 694,000 from economists surveyed by Dow Jones. The total represented an increase of 16,000 from

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell listens during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on “The Quarterly CARES Act Report to Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2020. Susan Walsh | Reuters As the economy booms over the next couple of months, the Fed will have a more difficult time defending its

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, speaking at the 2019 WEF in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 23rd, 2019. Adam Galica | CNBC Jamie Dimon is bullish on the U.S. economy – at least for the next few years. Dimon, the long-serving JPMorgan Chase CEO and chairman, sees strong growth ahead for the world’s biggest

The Inn of Rosslyn, which is permanently closed due to pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic, on Feb. 5, 2021 in Arlington, Virginia. Liu Jie/Xinhua via Getty Images Nearly a quarter of all unemployed workers in the U.S. have been out of work for at least a year, a stretch of joblessness dating to the early

Loretta Mester, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images March’s strong job gains weren’t enough to convince Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester that it’s time to change monetary policy. The central bank official told CNBC on Monday that she welcomed news

President Joe Biden talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, U.S., March 14, 2021. Cheriss May | Reuters President Joe Biden said Monday that he is not worried that a plan to increase corporate America’s tax bill would dampen the U.S. economy as it emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic.