Gold (GC=F) and silver (SI=F) appeared to steady on Monday following a dramatic crash and a reversal of a parabolic rally that stunned Wall Street. “The dam broke,” Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research, told Yahoo Finance on Monday....
Much-expected January payrolls, originally scheduled for Friday, are delayed because of the partial government shutdown. Strong growth and above-target inflation mean Capital Economics expects only one Fed rate cut of 25 basis points this year. The Wall Street Journal
...The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady at its policy meeting this week, following three successive cuts at the end of 2025. So all eyes will be on how long officials signal they plan to hold...
President Donald Trump indicated he’s comfortable with the dollar’s recent decline, helping send the currency to its lowest level since early 2022. “No, I think it’s great,” Trump told reporters in Iowa on Tuesday when asked if he was worried...
The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold its key interest rate through this quarter and possibly until Chair Jerome Powell’s tenure ends in May, according to a majority of economists polled by Reuters, a shift from last month when most expected...
US Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism Wednesday of the Trump administration’s arguments for firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, cautioning that there are larger implications not just for the central bank and its independence but for government appointees more largely....
2025 Market Snapshot For the year, US equities, as measured by the S&P 500, posted a 17.9% gain. International equities, captured by the MSCI EAFE, outperformed markedly, delivering a 31.2% return. This excess is largely attributable to a 10% depreciation...
More car buyers are taking on $1,000-a-month payments, data shows. The average monthly payment on a new vehicle in 2015 was $491. The average amount financed: $28,769. Now, some 10 years later, the average monthly payment in the fourth quarter...
As if student loan borrowers didn’t have enough to worry about, some who fell into default during the pandemic-era payment pause are now seeing a long-dreaded consequence hit their paychecks: Federal wage garnishment has officially restarted for the first time...
Mortgage rates may have decreased only slightly this week, but the decline marks a significant moment: The 30-year fixed mortgage rate has dropped to its lowest point in 2025. The national average 30-year rate is now 6.15%, according to Freddie...
You just don’t see a lot of drama in the Federal Reserve. In normal times, that is. But 2025 wasn’t normal. That is: normal in the way that, say, 2023 and 2024 were normal. In 2025, Donald Trump started a...
The Conference Board’s consumer confidence reading hit 89.1 in December, declining for the fifth consecutive month. Consumers are ending the year on a dour note. The Conference Board’s reading for consumer confidence ticked 3.8 points lower in December to reach...
It was a tough year to be looking for work — and the job market is not expected to get much better. Americans looking for work in 2025 have faced a challenging environment. And 2026 may not be much better....
Making a plan for what happens to your assets when you’re gone may seem uncomfortable, but it can spare your loved ones a huge amount of money and conflict. On this week’s episode of Decoding Retirement, Robert “Bob” Powell speaks...
Expectations for annual growth in medical costs hit 10.1% in November, according to the New York Fed, the highest since 2014. Americans see their medical costs skyrocketing next year by the most in more than a decade, according to data...
