Foreclosures are surging now that Covid mortgage bailouts are ending, but they’re still at low levels
Diana Olick | CNBC | Oct 14th, 2021
Category: Education
Pandemic-related mortgage bailouts are ending, and foreclosures are now rising. Foreclosure starts jumped 32% in the third quarter of this year from the second …
Pandemic has disrupted retirement plans for 35% of Americans, study finds
Lorie Konish | CNBC | Oct 12th, 2021
Category: Financial News
Covid-19 has been a financial boon or bust for workers, depending on their personal situations. Now, those effects are changing when many Americans say they …
Chinese Luxury Developer Fantasia Fails to Repay $206 Million U.S. Dollar Bond
Anniek Bao, Serena Ng and Frances Yoon | WSJ | Oct 5th, 2021
Category: Financial News
Fantasia Holdings Group Co., a developer of luxury apartments in China, said it didn’t make a $206 million U.S. dollar bond payment that was due Oct. 4, adding …
Fannie Mae: High prices, construction delays, low inventory will dog housing market into 2022
Marc Rapport | USA Today | Sep 24th, 2021
Category: Financial News
Fannie Mae says it expects U.S. home sales to end 2021 a bit higher than they were the year before and the multiple economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic …
Opinion: Should I do that Roth IRA conversion before Congress bans them?
Brett Arends | MarketWatch | Oct 1st, 2021
Category: Education
A reader has just written in urging me to take another look at Roth IRAs. This follows my previous column, in which I said I was wary of them, partly because I figured …
